LP5 Stainless Steel Dog Tag

1. Create a shape that is the size of your dog tag. This will be referred to as your Guide layer. You can even go to the Layers section and rename the layer to Guide.
2. Import or create your design that you want to engrave.
3. Align your design layer(s) with the Guide layer.
4. Select all the layers, including the Guide layer, and Align center them.

1. Outline Preview is helpful to see very closely what your engraving will look like on your item. To turn it on, go to settings. Then, turn on Outline Preview.
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2. From the Layers section, only select the Guide layer.
3. Click the Preview button, to start the preview.
5. Focus
1. Set your dog tag under the red dots.
2. Move the laser head to be too high out of focus.
3. Move the laser head down until the red dots just touch.
4. Move the laser head up 4 clicks.
6. Align the dog tag to the preview of the guide.
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7. Collapse the preview menu.
8. Go to the Layers section.
9. Deselect the Guide layer and select the design layer(s).
10. Click the Preview button to bring the preview menu back up.
1. Now you should see a rectangle box showing the edges of your design.
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11. Click the Outline Preview button.
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12. Click the Start Preview button.
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13. You should see an outline of your design on your item. This gives you a good feel for where it will engrave on your item.
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14. Cancel the outline preview.
15. Click the Next button.

This step is the deep engraving, removing the amount of material to your liking. Adjust the passes to engrave shallower or deeper.

In this step we are cleaning up the engraving and trying to even out the surface. If you don't want a dark engraving, stop after this step.

If you want a dark engraving do this step, otherwise don't.

In the top half of this image you can see this step being run, where it is being marked dark.

The bottom half is what it looked like after the previous step, clean up and even out.

You can clean up the dog tag using liquid soap and an old toothbrush.