care never to place your eye in the beam path. Press “shift” and the pointer key again to turn
the beam off.
MOVE X
Pressing this key will enable the move x feature. Spinning the black knob will cause the x
carriage to move right or left, depending on which direction the knob is turned. The current
actual position will be shown on the display. This is useful for locating a position on a work
piece, or for setting the home position to a new location.
MOVE Y
This key is similar to the move x key, except for moving the y-axis instead of the x-axis. Move
Y will not display numerical movement when the Rotary Attachment is connected.
SET HOME
This key in conjunction with the MOVE X and MOVE Y keys allow for home position to be set
anywhere on the table. For example, you could move x and y to where you would like the
engraving to start on an irregularly shaped part. Press SET HOME and the machine will from
that point on use that position as the starting point.
RESTORE
Pressing this key will cause the machine to release any new home position, and go back to the
true home in the upper left-hand corner of the table.
OPTICS
The Radius is equipped with a two-inch focal length lens as standard equipment. Other lenses
are available as options for special situations. Color-coded slots are provided for each lens, so
that they will all focus to the same point. The green lens goes into the green slot, and the red
lens goes into the red slot. The red lens is a longer focal length, and will give better results
cutting thick material and engraving at lower resolutions (300 DPI and below). The blue lens is
a shorter focal length, and will give better results engraving at high resolutions (600 DPI and
above). For engraving inside bowls or shadow boxes, the red lens can be put into the bottom
slot for maximum clearance between the work and the carriage. You will need to focus
manually, and set the distance from the work to the lens at 2 and ½ inches. Epilog provides a
special focus gage designed specifically for this purpose.
LOADING YOUR WORK
The engraving field of your machine is 24 by 18 inches. The table allows you to engrave work
up to 12 inches thick. The home position of the engraving field is at the upper left corner of the
table. Place your workpiece in the upper left corner, pressed firmly against the metal stops
along the top and left edges.
OPERATION
Load a practice piece and set the focus. Close the door and press the ONLINE key. The
ONLINE status should be displayed. Turn on the exhaust fan. Now go into your drawing
program (CorelDRAW, etc.) and set the page size to the dimensions of the practice piece you
have loaded. Then enter your name in half inch text anywhere on the page. Once you have
the image ready to engrave, print to the machine through the Radius print driver using the
standard print command. Your drawing program should give you the opportunity to do a print
setup, where you can set the Resolution, speed and power.
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