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useful feature when engraving curved

and tapered items.

Another major highlight of the

MAX Pro is its auto laser layout fea-

ture used in conjunction with the soft-

ware’s “Measure Wizard.” Say, for

example, you are engraving a heart-

shaped compact where the engraving

area is difﬁcult to determine in terms

of X, Y coordinates. When the “Mea-

sure Wizard” is activated, a red laser

pointer on the machine automatically

turns on and the software prompts you

to jog the spindle to mark the upper left

and lower right corners of the engrav-

ing area. This information is automati-

cally sent to the software as the “plate

size” and you can design your lay-

out from there. The pendant will even

prompt you to “outline” the material,

which causes the red pointer to outline

the engraving area for visual veriﬁca

tion. This is an awesome feature that I

found extremely useful and time-sav-

ing for even simple jobs like luggage

tags (no more calipers and rulers!).

Note that for some reason this feature

is not available with the Vise Rotated

driver. You can also use the red pointer

for a “dry run,” meaning the red point-

er and not the cutter will “engrave” the

job. This is really useful when engrav-

ing expensive items.

Another handy feature is the abil-

ity to restart the engraving anywhere in

the job. For example, if a cutter breaks

or the engraving depth is uneven in the

middle of a job, you simply jog the

spindle over to that point and restart the

engraving. The machine will automati-

cally reengrave starting at the character

closest to the spindle position.

Software Highlights

Vision Engraving Systems offers

three levels of its proprietary software:

Vision, Vision Pro LT and Vision Pro.

Vision Pro 7.0 is the latest and most

advanced package and is standard with

the MAX Pro engraving machine. To

use it, you’ll need: Windows 95, 98,

ME, 2000, XP or NT; 400 Mhz Pen

tium processor; 128 to 256 MB RAM,

depending on the operating system; 50

MB of hard disk space; a CD ROM

drive and an available serial port and

USB port.

Vision Pro is essentially the Engrav-

eLab package developed by CADlink

with some added features, such as the

wizards and the engraving controls par-

ticular to Vision’s MAX Pro system.

As with nearly all software pro-

grams available today, Vision Pro has

many different features, icons, buttons

and toolbars to get used to. The hard-

ware on this system is really easy to

operate; it’s the software that could

present a learning curve. Vision Pro

can be used to run other machines as

well, including routers, laser engrav-

ers, color printers and vinyl plotters so

there may be features that you don’t

use regularly, if at all, depending on

your applications. Some of the icons

are a little small and unclear for my

liking, but it shouldn’t take too long to

become comfortable with the software.

And, as mentioned earlier, the wizards

help tremendously.

The fonts provided with this soft-

ware include 65 engraving fonts,

Braille fonts, 1,100+ TrueType fonts

and a clip art package. There are plenty

of type styles to choose from, although

I ﬁnd many of them to be very similar

to each other.

Like most engraving programs on

the market today, you can choose your

method of layout, i.e., a visual WYSI

WYG approach or a mathematical

method where you enter dimensions

to do a “ﬁxed layout.” The software

includes standard auto layout features

that allow you to deﬁne certain param-

eters to ﬁt into a speciﬁed area, e.g. au-

tomatic kerning modes, set margins,

etc. A multiple plate feature allows you

to merge text ﬁles with layouts to cre-

ate batch or multiple plate jobs, which

is a time saver for quantities of name

plates or badges. There are also fea-

tures for arc engraving, ﬁtting text to a

path, dials and rulers for industrial en-

graving and engraving by color.

A nice extra in this package is the

bitmap-to-vector conversion software.

With this, you can scan a logo or de

sign, double-click on it and select the

trace option to create a vectorized im-

age. You can then edit that image and

add a ﬁll routine to prepare it for en

graving. The software includes various

ﬁll routines for creating cutter paths,

including S-sweep, line sweep, island

and spiral ﬁlls. The whole process

is fairly straightforward and provides

good results. In this respect, rotary en-

graving has come a long way since the

old days in terms of using logos and

other custom graphics in your engrav-

ing jobs.

Braille conversion is another fea-

ture of this software. After translating

the text to Grade 2 Braille, which is the

correct type for ADA signage, you can

tell the engraving machine to automat-

ically drill holes for Braille “rasters”

or automatically rout out the material

leaving raised dots. This, of course, is

a must for those using the machine to

create ADA signage.

The Verdict

The user friendliness of this ma-

chine can’t be overstated. Vision has

obviously made it a priority to make

jewelry and gift engraving extreme-

ly easy. I was impressed with how

quickly I was up-and-running and

switching from engraving a luggage

tag to a ﬂask to a pilsner glass or

from a charm to a humidor. And the

software wizards are a fantastic ad-

dition to the software. I’m not much

for rulers, so the “Measure Wizard”

served as a nearly foolproof means

for setting up a job, while the “Ring

Wizard” saved time looking up spe-

ciﬁcs in the manual.

As you can surmise from this re-

view, I found the MAX Pro to be an

excellent system for the gift and jew-

elry engraving market as well as most

award applications. If this were my

business’ forte I would deﬁnitely be

looking at this machine, and if it hap-

pens to be yours, I would suggest you

do the same.

As printed in June 2007, Volume 32, No. 12 of The Engravers Journal.

J a c k i e Z a c k

Jackie Zack began her career in the industry with The Engravers Journal in

1985. She has authored hundreds of articles for EJ and has covered almost

every related industry topic. Her dedication to the industry really shines in her

one-of-a-kind Rotary and Laser Buyer’s Guides.

Jackie can be reached by E-mail at [email protected].

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