Introduction

If you are reading this than it means that you have purchased my manual on laser engraving. Why write a manual on laser engraving? Well for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that there is no manual that looks at CorelDraw and how it relates to laser engraving. A second reason is that there are a lot of people who are purchasing lasers and although running a laser is easy, it helps when you have help in explaining certain procedures. Thirdly and most importantly there are many times where you as an owner have employees. As is usual in any business there is a certain amount of turnover. Having this manual to give to a new employee would make it a lot easy to get them up to speed. … Continue Reading

Laser Basics

Although we do not need to spend a lot of time on understanding how the actual laser machine works there are some things that need to be highlighted as they are important items that need to be considered when you are laser engraving.

Although I wanted to stay away from talking about laser tubes, more because it would be better told by an engineer, to know a laser is to know how the tube works. … Continue Reading

Getting to know your way around CorelDraw

Before getting started with any program it is important that we understand where all the commands are located and that we have a basic understanding of how each of these commands works. This section will provide a quick overview of CorelDraw’s major commands. … Continue Reading