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Hello Matey,
I'm only up the road from you in Wellingborough.
Feel free to give me a shout if you need anything bigger cutting, as I have the 6090 machine.
(I'm not advertising here, just offering free help if needed.)

Andy

Speed 100
Power 98%
Scan gap 0.1

60 watt machine.

The 'standard' way to fill engraving is to put a line of paint on the panel then squeegee it down across the engraving so it is pushed into the engraving. I use a rubber tiler's squeegee for this (like you use to put grout onto tiles). Then let it dry and remove any excess on the surface by wrapping...

Thanks for the responses so far. I've checked power saving settings etc with no joy - I'm still having the same problems. Is anyone else using a rather old computer too? I'm wondering if my old and somewhat out of date USB ports are perhaps not suitable. As I said before, no other USB devices are ca...

Both machines use winXP. (Old, I know). Strangely, on one machine all USB ports stop working when the problem occurs, only to work again at some seemingly random time later on. I have other plotters etc plugged in and this never happens when I am using them. On the second machine it works fine once ...

I'm having regular problems with my machine (6090) losing communication with my PC. Sometimes it's a "Softdog - no same" message, and other times the PC states that the USB device is not recognised. At first I suspected the PC to be at fault, but it is the same on a second PC that I have t...

I've had no luck with this search so far, so if anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

Ta.

I think you are probably right. I was just trying to ascertain the exact problem the OP was having. I try to avoid autotrace whenever possible as it creates too many potentially invisible nodes/shapes for my liking. I prefer hand vectorising, but then I'm really picky.

I'm still a bit confused. You scan your item and import it (or it scans straight in) to Coreldraw. So you have a bitmap on the screen. You can't select individual parts of a bitmap in Coreldraw without tracing it first, so it becomes a collection of vectors. If Coreldraw is repeatedly crashing the o...

I'm confused. You say a scanned object - therefore it's a bitmap? But then you say nodes are appearing which means it has been vectorised. The alternative to ungroup for a vector is the 'break apart' option. CTRL K in the arrange menu.