Professional Engraving Systems

Xenetech User Clinic Preview

If you have ever considered attending a Xenetech User Clinic, but are unsure, here is a preview of course content covered over the two-day period:

Xenetech User Clinic Agenda

I. Machine Maintenance including:
   A. Lubricating Leadscrews
      1. Type of Lube
      2. Slewing
      3. Don't ever Lubricate spindle
   B. Spindle Motor Brush Replacement
      1. 1/3 gone graphic
      2. Take care replacing 912 brushes
   C. Electronics
      1. Cleaning cable connections
      2. Blowing out MPU
   D. Clean Belts and Rails first - Laser
   E. Cleaning Laser Mirrors
      1. Lint free cloth or cotton swab
      2. Acetone or denatured alcohol
   F. Is a Blower Upgrade needed?
   G. Spare Parts Needed – Rotary & Laser
      1. Belts & Brushes
      2. Cutters, Burnishers
      3. When to replace Diamond drag
      4. Spare Spindle?
      5. Spare Mirrors or Optics
      6. Laser Belts & Polymer Bearings
   H. Long Term Repair
      1. Leadscrew nuts and/or leadscrews
      2. Bridge repair or swap on lasers
      3. Laser tube swap
   I. APU Board issue – Only ISA boards available – Viper upgrade path

II. Basic Software Features
   A. Parts of the Xenetech Screen
   B. What's new
   C. F7 Dialog
      1. Rescale
      2. Number of lines
      3. Multiplate Offset
   D. Re-Draw & Full Screen Refresh (Alt + 7)
      1. Setup of XGW shortcut
   E. Registration Box, Polymarkers
   F. Different ways to select a line
   G. Toolkit, Super Edit
   H. Justifications
   I. Baseline/Top of Line/Line Y Center

   J. Plate Even Spacing and Factored Spacing (F8, F9)
      1. Selected versus not selected
   K. Layout by Percent Fill
   L. Rescaling Feature
   M. Auto Layout Dialog
   N. How to Use Undo Feature
   O. Different Origins
   P. F1, Engraver Setup for Rotary and Laser
   Q. Item Selector Dialog

III. Intermediate Software Features including:
   A. How to use the Help Files
   B. Kerning, Manual and Automatic, Inter-character spacing
   C. Loading a Logo
   D. Arrange Menu
   E. Italic, Underline, Slanted, (Setup Menu)
   F. Plate Orientation
   G. Batch Plates, Multiple Plates
   H. Copy Input
   I. Serialization
   J. Engrave by Color, Layer Dialog, Freeze Feature
   K. Columniation
      1. Manual
      2. Make Columns Dialog
      3. Creating Holes for a Perpetual Plaque
   L. Spell Check
   M. Hatch Fill Setup – To Sort, or not to sort
      1. Reverse Fills
      2. Filling Logos
      3. Cross-Hatch
      4. Half-Hatch
   N. ADA Signage
      1. Types of Braille
      2. Serifs
      3. Paragraph Group
      4. California (Title 24) Braille
      5. Automatic Inserter using Braille Bracket
   O. Grid Cut-out Features
      1. Tic Marks
      2. Corner Radius and Inverted Corner Radius
   P. More Setup Menu features & Output by Selection Only
   Q. Control Panel Layout
      1. F5 - Duplicate Line
      2. Snap Spacing
      3. Nudge

  R. Arcing
     1. Positive Arcs
     2. Negative Arcs
     3. Fit Text to Path

  S. Find & Replace

  T. Long Plate & Tall Plate

  U. Generate Dial

IV. Advanced Software Features including:
   A. Select All Special Features & Importing DXF Files
   B. Viper Communication Suite Features
      1. Get XY Position from Pendant
      2. Do New and Rescale Plate from Pendant
      3. Preview
      4. Diagnostics
      5. Job console
      6. Job Reporter
      7. E-mail confirmation upon job completion
   C. Queuing jobs for Viper and Laser (Random File Names)
      1. Setup for multiple computer stations

   D. Paragraph Grouping

   E. Spell Check

   F. Edit Pop-up Menus

  G. Resort Plate
  H. Drawing Tools
  I. Color Menu Features
  J. Editing Logos
  K. Engraving Bitmaps

    1. Rotary - Wireframe

    2. Laser – resample Features
  L. Outline/Vectorizing Bitmaps in CorelDraw
  M. Output from CorelDraw

     1. Laser Driver

     2. Rotary Driver

  N. Merge Job

  O. Font Making

  P. Xenetech Macros

  Q. Xenetech Command Line Feature

  R. Burnishing & Rotary Engraving into Metal

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