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=== Setting Up Your File ===
 
=== Setting Up Your File ===
Your file setup will be the same as per usual engraving projects. The only consideration you should keep in mind is the orientation. Your design will be facing the same way on the machine as it is on your screen. Since your part is setup sideways, the height of your part becomes the width of your design and the width of your part (circumference) becomes the height of your design. For a 360° engraving job, you will have to measure the circumference of your part and set as the height of your file. The home point is still the top left corner of your file. This is something to consider when setting up the home point on the laser, as it will go from left to right unless you modify settings.
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Your file setup will be the same as per usual engraving projects. The only consideration you should keep in mind is the orientation and size. The laser is not going to fit your design automatically to the part. Per example a 20cm heigh design on a 10cm circumference part will engrave it twice over.  
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[[File:File Positioning.png|center|thumb|814x814px|Design orientation to properly position on the part]]
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Your design will be facing the same way on the machine as it is on your screen. Since your part is setup sideways, the height of your part becomes the width of your design and the width of your part (circumference) becomes the height of your design. For a 360° engraving job, you will have to measure the circumference of your part and set as the height of your file. The home point is still the top left corner of your file. This is something to consider when setting up the home point on the laser, as it will go from left to right unless you modify settings.
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[[File:File Positioning (1).png|alt=|center|thumb|814x814px|Design orientation to properly position on the part]]
    
=== External Tutorial Reference ===
 
=== External Tutorial Reference ===
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