Engraving Clear Acrylic

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McEtcher on Acrylic

I used the 90 degree McEtcher on Acrylic. This is what you do not want to do Content - Have too much detail. The blank areas are just as important as the etched areas. Image work - I used the Paint.NET → Effects → Ink sketch Tracing - This is using the standard tracing in InkScape/CC. This will create a path AROUND the pixels. Cutting Plow the McEtcher through the material. 2 1/2 turns and .030 deep. The detail is lost due to over running. CC - 4.6 million lines of GCode an 15 hrs…