Good Morning, all...

I thought I'd pass on a lesson learned from my first prototype in MOI.

I needed to engrave text into the surface. I discovered two things.
1. Not all fonts are good candidates for engraving when the cavity created needs to be chamfered or filleted.
2. It is better to chamfer or fillet the bottom of the fonts before pushing them into the surface.

I made the mistake of selecting a font, creating the text and pushing the font into the surface and then trying to chamfer the edges of the engraved text. First, it is difficult to find the edges of a character engraved at 1/128" below the surface. Secondly, it is difficult to know how deep the text has been pushed into the surface. Finally, not all characters worked.

I found that if I created the font twice as high as I needed, chamfering the bottom slightly higher than the depth needed, a chamfer line was created to be used to help define the depth of your push into the surface and when the text was differenced it left behind a perfectly chamfered cavity. A lesson learned.

Regards