Okay, here’s my professional opinion if it means anything. I have two of these systems; the Fusion 32 and the 48. While I totally agree that it does make placement and workflow more efficient, your viewers and future purchasers should be advised that the further away you get from center, where the camera is mounted, the more lens parallax you’ll experience and the more INACCURATE your engraving or cutting will be. This holds true for the X AND the Y axis. You’re still going to have to measure/compensate because of this fact. Many times I don’t even use the camera because of this issue. Problematic offset concentric circles inside of objects like coasters are easily noticeable even to the most untrained eye. The Fusion Edge may not be as pronounced but it still occurs. One should look forward to much wasted substrate/material or customer’s object if a technician is unaware. I personally hope that Epilog addresses the issue by either software modification post convex lens (plane geometry re-calc to the Job Manager) or simply placing more cameras on top and software stitching). I’d pay more either way to make this problem go away. If not addressed, Trotec, will likely beat them at their own innovation. Not cool. Trevor, don’t get me wrong. I really do like the feature but the problem shouldn’t go without some fixing or at least Epilog should’ve published an established work-around.
storytellerHD you’re correct about that issue. I addressed it in a separate video regarding the calibration of it. To a point there are some things they can do, but there is still going to be a limit based on where the cameras are positioned.
Great tutorial. Your videos are some of the main reasons that we ordered and just received a fusion edge to go with our helix. Thanks for doing these and please do more. Can't wait to get the edge up and running this weekend.
Question: Can the camera setup "Take a Photo" and recreate it to reprint? If my child draws something - can I take a photo and recreate it onto something? Thanx
You can take a photo from the software and take it into a design program and trace it. So there is manual work to do it. It would basically be like scanning it and doing it. It doesn’t actively recognize the artwork.
Another awesome vid. Thanks for posting. Did you know that there is an additional camera for registration right by the head? Not a lot of topic on that one. It’s quite capable.
Great video! I'm going to speak with a distributor for Epilog on Wednesday about the Fusion Edge. you have the 60W which creates excellent detail (i.e. Union Stars on the red aluminum piece). - When speaking to the company, they mentioned upgrading to the 80W. Will that extra take away from your detail? I know I can dial the power back but not sure on detail with a larger laser.
loving this. I have a camera on order for my laser, and cant wait to get going with it. My philosophy is, if it will make things easier, and speed it up - I need it :-)
@@MakerExperiment unfortunately the epilogue company does not deliver in my country. What do you think of glowforge, is it worth it or do you have another suggestion? Thx!
