[bamabones3]

I have a 60 watt Chinese-made laser engraver. It vector cuts just fine and raster engraves fine, but when engraving vectors or text it sort of "fades in" on the first few rows, like there is some kind of gradient setting along the bottom. This happens in Coreldraw 12 and in Lasercut 5.1. I even tried exporting .ai from Coreldraw and importing into Lasercut and it does the same thing. Any idea what would be causing this?

[bamabones3]

I'll try to post an example with text. This is the bottom line of text and you can see where it starts OK, fades out for a few rows, then back in. There are several lines of text above it that engraved perfectly.

[loyedp]

check your lens alignment to the table alignment..

[zax15uk]

check your lens alignment to the table alignment..

That was my first thought too and is the only thing that would make sense, but I can't explain how engraving vector vs. raster would be any different.

Zax.

[bamabones3]

Thanks for replying. Turns out it was a software issue. I was using Lasercut 5.1 and after upgrading to Lasercut 5.3 the problem went away.

[DaveDoesIT]

Thanks for replying. Turns out it was a software issue. I was using Lasercut 5.1 and after upgrading to Lasercut 5.3 the problem went away.

Glad you fixed it, but for future reference, the first thing you should do is move the graphic along one of the axis and burn again. In this case I would have moved it up the Y axis. That would instantly identify if it is a hardware or software thing.

Cuts down on the guesswork trying to figure out a solution.

Dave