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  1. Runtime Error on Techno CNC Interface

    have you tried a known good file? I had something similar happen a year or so ago, and it was in one of the settings before i exported g code. (I was running Mastercam, so different than your situation.) I verified with a known good file and then went digging into how my cut was programmed...
  2. Acrylic issues - advise please!

    Most likely you have purchased extruded acrylic, the difference between extruded and cast is huge. alcohols and solvent based chemicals will ruin extruded within a very short time... think minutes. I would contact your vendor, find out what you purchased. There is also a cost difference...
  3. Any Firefox experts out there?

    Fred, I don't do much web development, but what i have done I have used Firebug, and at the time (three years ago) it worked great... Mark
  4. Which OS to get???

    I built two almost identical systems in december/January to what you are looking at, except the ssd drive. My wife insisted on latest greatest WIN 8 (didn't learn her lesson when she insisted on Vista, thought that would have sunk in by now) It is the same processor as what you spec'd and...
  5. Font ID help please

    Thanks, think there is a bit of custom on that, ended up vectorizing, worked for what i had to do.
  6. Font ID help please

    Thanks, close to zapf italian but not quite... any one else have an idea
  7. Trying to put a picture in the background

    Do you have the original excel file? If yes, right click on the chart background and choose format chart area - fill - no fill then: right click on plot area, and do the same. There are two separate fills for each chart chart background, and plot area background, then insert picture and...
  8. Booze in the shop?

    "One giant liability" I am with Starsign on this. In today's litigious climate, Certainly high on the top ten list of discovery questions would be Where did you consume the alcohol? and the rhetorical, oh, you were at work? (note to paralegal, find out the corporations, llc's, whatever...
  9. Source for Thick Acrylic Sheets (0.5 to 1")

    Try Sunray Plastics, they will cut to size and have plenty of drops, acrylic sheets up to 6" thick. Might need a mortage though a sheet of 6" clear runs about 70k. Sunray Plastics Riviera Beach, FL 561-844-7722
  10. Font ID help please

    Thanks Fred
  11. Font ID help please

    Thanks in advance
  12. Customer Supplied Substrate Question (plastic)

    Given the masking has TG on it, i am going to weigh in on PETG, which laird does carry. Have you considered calling laird and finding out what your customer purchased?
  13. Help Need someone who can Laser Etch an Oversize Acrylic

    If Bane can't do it i have the name of a sign shop that has a 5x10 laser that can, but they are usually really busy, and then you would have the cost of crating and shipping finished product, but that would be no different than Bane. I think I would call a couple of the companies that make...
  14. new acrylics cracking wtf

    Acrylic Crazing with alcohol 1. If you laser cut acrylic and did not anneal it it will craze when alcohol is applied. 2. If you flame polished the edges, and did not anneal it, it will craze when alcohol is applied 3. If you bought extruded acrylic, instead of cast, It will craze when...
  15. Routing through sandblast resist film

    Thanks for the direction... great people, said they had not heard of doing this before, and offered to send some sample material to test. I will post the results.
  16. Routing through sandblast resist film

    My thoughts are to apply the masking, then reverse pocket about .030 into clear acrylic and then sandblast with walnut shells to clean up the tooling marks, and then paint pocketed areas. I have not done any resist sandblasting and have no experience with the media types. Questions: Will a...
  17. Xerox IGEN Power consumption question

    The printing company my wife works for has an igen 3, they had to put in a dedicated service, and a dedicated air conditioner to to keep it cool, can only imagine what the power bill is. I have heard the toner bill is about 28k on replenishment
  18. convert pdf to eps?

    also... zamzar, convert pdf to ps then convert ps to eps... no idea what the results will be, but the price is right. good luck.
  19. convert pdf to eps?

    I have X3, you can open the pdf and export to an eps file... export, not save or save as.... don't know if this helps, but figured it was close in versions, though I am guessing you have tried that.
  20. Quickbooks pro help needed...

    Sounds like you need a better understanding of what you do in one aspect affects everything else in the software. The high schools in our county offer adult ed classes on all kinds of things in the evening, one being quickbooks classes. If you can find such a thing you might benefit from it...
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