Hopping Over to Retina Engraved 3

Now that we've hopped over to retina engraved 3, you can come up here into your edit menu and go to settings. There, you'll find a switch that tells you if you want every rotary on or off. This is optional, but it's good to know what you're doing.

Now, let's take a look at where our laser is positioned. We've got a switch down here that indicates whether we want the laser to be on or off, and when you turn this on, you'll see how a laser interacts with your material. Now, I'm going to drop in some artwork that will make this huge. Let's get started!

Setting up the Rotary

Now we're going to rotate it and bring it up like that. We want to set our dpi to 500 and power to 100, so let's do 45 speed and run a perimeter around the area where we're engraving. This will ensure that everything is nice and clean.

Positioning the Laser

When positioning the laser for an engrave, you need to position it using the arrows on the unit to get it in place. Don't unlock your gantry and put it wherever you want it; instead, lock the laser and let it go. When the laser comes back into position, that's where you want to place it.

Using the Correct Order of Operations

Now that we have our image framed up and our laser is positioned correctly, let's make sure everything is set to the correct location. Since I had previously placed the laser in the center, which isn't actually the center of the image, but rather halfway through, this would carve off the top of your tumbler.

To fix this, we need to adjust the position of our laser to be in the middle right. We can do this by picking a new location for our laser, and since it's currently set to "middle left," let's pick "middle right" instead.

Running the Laser

Now that everything is set correctly, we're ready to run the laser! When you start the engraving process, the tumbler will spin and the laser will stay in one place. Let's cross our fingers and hope for the best!

Cleaning Up

Once the engraving is complete, let's run some water over it and take out a melamine sponge to clean up any remaining residue. And that's it! With this setup, we can create beautiful designs on our tumblers.

Tips and Thanks

I want to stop and thank you all for sticking around until the end of this video. If you like this video, hit that like button! If you haven't subscribed yet, please do so as it really helps me out. I also want to thank my patrons, especially the new addition Beezer, who has reached the five-dollar level. Without your support, I wouldn't be able to create these videos.

Thanks to all of my top-tier patrons: Steven Mann, Eric Weiss, Derek Coates, Chuck Faulkner, Puffy Muffins, Jim Carter, Andy the Viking, Dwight Smith, Christopher Walters, and Todd Stewart. Cheersies! If you want to help out the channel and haven't joined my Patreon page yet, I'll link it down below for you.

Tips from a Pro

One tip that's especially useful is using diode lasers downstairs instead of building one up here. It's faster, cleaner, and produces great results. However, this build process can be time-intensive, and if something doesn't turn out right, there's no going back.

What to Do When Problems Arise

So what happens when you encounter a problem during your build? Don't panic! Just ask Vanilla Ice: "There was a problem now that is it!" This classic phrase will give you the confidence to tackle even the toughest challenges in making.

And finally, be careful not to mess with your camera angles. I'm still working on this one...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys i'm nick and this is build dad build a place where we believe that bigger is always better that's right guys so today i just received the rotary attachment and the riser for the muse core behind me we're gonna install those today and then we're gonna play with the rotary i apologize for being the dark little corner over here uh there's not great lighting so first things first i'm just gonna tape the lid shut so we don't run into any issues there next we're just going to disconnect the power and the air assist if i can get off there there we go and that guy and that's just going to allow us to move this thing around and it not be such a pain in the butt next up i'm just going to loosen this a little bit pull that off i'm going to leave this on and i think i'm going to actually turn this on its side to take the bottom panel off okay so here is one little trick that i've seen is take the take one of these off you want to kind of drain the water out and then take one of these and put it back on there but i just made a big old mess i wasn't expecting water to come out of the machine when i took the water in out so basically you just want to take one of these and hook it up to both and that way you don't have to worry about any more water issue like we already had i'm just going to flip this up on this this is the flattest side of this thing so i think somebody's gonna tell me this is like the wrong way to do this i'm assuming all right i think we're good i think we're good i didn't see a tool in there for this in the riser kit so this is this is the one that came with the muse but we got to take all of these screws out and take the floor of the laser out i also when i tip this up i realize that my honeycomb is in there i would suggest taking the honeycomb out first the fun fact if you have this and you don't have and you don't have the riser you can still take this off you could take this off and like literally set it on a surface and engrave the surface like that like set it on a table top or a desk there's a honeycomb yummy don't do that all right just gonna bring this guy in here turn it over let me just swap this plate out okay so after you reinstall the 65 000 screws by hand it's ready to turn over so that has always been kind of one of my issues with the design of this thing is for boasting that you can remove this uh passer this bottom plate and and and laser through it it's kind of a pain in the butt like how about some quick releases or something on the bottom so we could so you could pop it off it wouldn't be such a big deal because this thing's pretty heavy so like flipping it around and then unscrewing it it's just it's just exhausting it's just exhausting kids but now we are ready to flip this thing over and looking for the front and we're gonna put you actually we need room for the exhaust fan and everything put you there we go in i just remind you this is not light and i should probably have two people do it but i and will one guy shop so do it myself all right so look at this big old cheeseburger so check this thing out look how deep this is now wow so deep okay so next up is the rotary i got you down here on the floor because i'm literally out of space but this you're going to unscrew back these guys off a little bit put this piece on top and you back this off a little bit more i don't know if this is optional you want to have it on there all the time but basically what you're going to do is now you can lift this up and when you set a cup on here you can set this down to keep it more stable tighten those i think for the most part we're good to go the reason i say that is because these are just kind of floating around in the box i don't know if these are spare parts i don't see anything that appears to be missing i'm assuming these are spare parts but they weren't like in a baggie or anything they were just kind of in the box okay so this guy's gonna go in here and there is a rail right here see that there's a rail that's built in right there so this butts up against that this cable pin plugs in here and everything i said says to feed it up underneath this rail i don't think you're gonna be able to see it i don't think i can show it to you but the the attachment point is right here and it's the only thing there next we're gonna put this in here i'm gonna bring this guy up and then why is that going back i don't want that to go back oh interesting this goes up okay so all right so just got a lot of fine tuners here fine tuna hold please this whole thing just scissored up and i don't know what's going on right but there's like look at that it's not attached 20 minutes later okay we're back that's the thing about making guys sometimes something's a little messed up and you just got to tweak it um basically a couple of these screws had kind of backed out and fallen out one side of this was not attached probably could have called full spectrum support on that um i knew what i needed to do so i just did it but you know if you're not comfortable with that you can always call support so this piece lowers down to hold the lip here and then the main thing you want to be you you want to be aware of is you want this to be level two kind of hacks at this point one i've heard that you want to take something like a bean bag or something and stuff it in here this is not gonna fit in here now that i realize that feel free to peruse your environment for things to stuff in there i'm just going to stuff stuff these uh work gloves these are chainsaw gloves so they're a little heavier they're made out of kevlar and they're a little thicker but we're just going to stuff those guys in there and that should give us a little bit more half the other thing i can't really show you this in there i just don't have a good camera angle on it so somebody using their table saw level uh to check level oh as long as you can get it to balance on there it'll tell you whether which way you need to go and then you can adjust your scissor lift accordingly okay so we want to find the highest point on the thing that we want to engrave and then we're going to drop down my ear assist is tight in there all right there we go tighten that up and then since i still have my gantry unlocked i'm just going to position this right about there okay so we've hopped over into retina engraved 3. now you can come up here into your edit menu go to settings and turn on your rotary here but you don't really need to do that if you don't want to because you have a switch right down here that tells you if you want every rotary on or off okay and then we can see where a laser is positioned and now i'm just going to drop in some artwork that's going to be huge there we go we will drop this down to about three i think will look good bring this over here uh we're going to rotate it bring it up like that i'm going to go ahead and do 500 dpi so we're going to come in here we're going to go 100 power like 45 speed then we're going to run a perimeter and make sure that that is uh that that it's rotating okay i had unlocked the gantry to position the laser and then turn the rotary on and if you do that the laser won't home so when you're positioning the laser for the engrave you need to position it using the arrows on the unit to get it in place don't unlock the gantry and put it wherever you're putting it i think maybe you could unlock your gantry put wherever you wanted to put it lock the laser have it go and then turn on the rotary but there's definitely an order of operations there okay so since i have my image here framed up and this is where the laser is i want to come over here and i messed up on this first because i put this at center which if you watch the way it runs it's it thinks that's the center of the image now so it runs down to halfway through so basically this will carve off the top of your tumbler right now so what you want to do is since this is the position that i picked to put it in i'm going to pick this i'm going to pick middle right for its location okay so now once we have that set to the middle right and a lot of times if you have this set incorrectly it'll give you an out of bounds thing because it it thinks it's going to go up here i think i had it set to like top center or something or another i don't know anyway just so you know now if i um if i frame it now see how the tumbler is is spinning and the laser staying in one place so we're going to go ahead and hit go and cross our fingers all right we're just going to run some water on that and take our magic eraser to it just a melamine sponge i buy these off of amazon like 50 for like 18 bucks wow that's some clean lines all right guys so i just want to stop and say thanks for sticking around till this time in the video if you like this video hit that like button if you haven't subscribed please hit that subscribe button it really helps me out and speaking of helping me out i would just like to say thanks to all of my patrons especially a new addition beezer getting that single shout out for that five dollar level and it wouldn't be a build that build video if i didn't say thanks to all of my top tier or boilermaker patrons steven mann eric weiss derek coates chuck faulkner puffy muffins jim carter andy the viking dwight smith christopher walters and todd stewart cheersies if you want to help out the channel and you've not joined my patreon page i will link it down below head on over check it out and if you're feeling froggy this is much faster than i've done the same engrave on one of my diode lasers downstairs it's very clean not to say they wouldn't be really like the way it turned out and it's just crisp and clean mmm it's kind of funky it's say it with me it's kind of funky so good so good it looks even better when the lettering is the right way but yeah guys check that out but it's more of like a time intensive build it's not really a difficult build and if something didn't fall apart or not have a screw put in it when i got it and had to put it together then it's not a build that build built so remember as makers if we run into a problem what do we do just ask vanilla ice there was a problem now that is it thanks for playing i gotta get to work camera angle on it is don't do that this is magnetic sometimes hey man someone stole your battery tell me what that's from only only my really old uh school guys will know that one phone in there the hell is it there's a bug floating in my booze oh he's delicious it's okay it's okaywhat's up guys i'm nick and this is build dad build a place where we believe that bigger is always better that's right guys so today i just received the rotary attachment and the riser for the muse core behind me we're gonna install those today and then we're gonna play with the rotary i apologize for being the dark little corner over here uh there's not great lighting so first things first i'm just gonna tape the lid shut so we don't run into any issues there next we're just going to disconnect the power and the air assist if i can get off there there we go and that guy and that's just going to allow us to move this thing around and it not be such a pain in the butt next up i'm just going to loosen this a little bit pull that off i'm going to leave this on and i think i'm going to actually turn this on its side to take the bottom panel off okay so here is one little trick that i've seen is take the take one of these off you want to kind of drain the water out and then take one of these and put it back on there but i just made a big old mess i wasn't expecting water to come out of the machine when i took the water in out so basically you just want to take one of these and hook it up to both and that way you don't have to worry about any more water issue like we already had i'm just going to flip this up on this this is the flattest side of this thing so i think somebody's gonna tell me this is like the wrong way to do this i'm assuming all right i think we're good i think we're good i didn't see a tool in there for this in the riser kit so this is this is the one that came with the muse but we got to take all of these screws out and take the floor of the laser out i also when i tip this up i realize that my honeycomb is in there i would suggest taking the honeycomb out first the fun fact if you have this and you don't have and you don't have the riser you can still take this off you could take this off and like literally set it on a surface and engrave the surface like that like set it on a table top or a desk there's a honeycomb yummy don't do that all right just gonna bring this guy in here turn it over let me just swap this plate out okay so after you reinstall the 65 000 screws by hand it's ready to turn over so that has always been kind of one of my issues with the design of this thing is for boasting that you can remove this uh passer this bottom plate and and and laser through it it's kind of a pain in the butt like how about some quick releases or something on the bottom so we could so you could pop it off it wouldn't be such a big deal because this thing's pretty heavy so like flipping it around and then unscrewing it it's just it's just exhausting it's just exhausting kids but now we are ready to flip this thing over and looking for the front and we're gonna put you actually we need room for the exhaust fan and everything put you there we go in i just remind you this is not light and i should probably have two people do it but i and will one guy shop so do it myself all right so look at this big old cheeseburger so check this thing out look how deep this is now wow so deep okay so next up is the rotary i got you down here on the floor because i'm literally out of space but this you're going to unscrew back these guys off a little bit put this piece on top and you back this off a little bit more i don't know if this is optional you want to have it on there all the time but basically what you're going to do is now you can lift this up and when you set a cup on here you can set this down to keep it more stable tighten those i think for the most part we're good to go the reason i say that is because these are just kind of floating around in the box i don't know if these are spare parts i don't see anything that appears to be missing i'm assuming these are spare parts but they weren't like in a baggie or anything they were just kind of in the box okay so this guy's gonna go in here and there is a rail right here see that there's a rail that's built in right there so this butts up against that this cable pin plugs in here and everything i said says to feed it up underneath this rail i don't think you're gonna be able to see it i don't think i can show it to you but the the attachment point is right here and it's the only thing there next we're gonna put this in here i'm gonna bring this guy up and then why is that going back i don't want that to go back oh interesting this goes up okay so all right so just got a lot of fine tuners here fine tuna hold please this whole thing just scissored up and i don't know what's going on right but there's like look at that it's not attached 20 minutes later okay we're back that's the thing about making guys sometimes something's a little messed up and you just got to tweak it um basically a couple of these screws had kind of backed out and fallen out one side of this was not attached probably could have called full spectrum support on that um i knew what i needed to do so i just did it but you know if you're not comfortable with that you can always call support so this piece lowers down to hold the lip here and then the main thing you want to be you you want to be aware of is you want this to be level two kind of hacks at this point one i've heard that you want to take something like a bean bag or something and stuff it in here this is not gonna fit in here now that i realize that feel free to peruse your environment for things to stuff in there i'm just going to stuff stuff these uh work gloves these are chainsaw gloves so they're a little heavier they're made out of kevlar and they're a little thicker but we're just going to stuff those guys in there and that should give us a little bit more half the other thing i can't really show you this in there i just don't have a good camera angle on it so somebody using their table saw level uh to check level oh as long as you can get it to balance on there it'll tell you whether which way you need to go and then you can adjust your scissor lift accordingly okay so we want to find the highest point on the thing that we want to engrave and then we're going to drop down my ear assist is tight in there all right there we go tighten that up and then since i still have my gantry unlocked i'm just going to position this right about there okay so we've hopped over into retina engraved 3. now you can come up here into your edit menu go to settings and turn on your rotary here but you don't really need to do that if you don't want to because you have a switch right down here that tells you if you want every rotary on or off okay and then we can see where a laser is positioned and now i'm just going to drop in some artwork that's going to be huge there we go we will drop this down to about three i think will look good bring this over here uh we're going to rotate it bring it up like that i'm going to go ahead and do 500 dpi so we're going to come in here we're going to go 100 power like 45 speed then we're going to run a perimeter and make sure that that is uh that that it's rotating okay i had unlocked the gantry to position the laser and then turn the rotary on and if you do that the laser won't home so when you're positioning the laser for the engrave you need to position it using the arrows on the unit to get it in place don't unlock the gantry and put it wherever you're putting it i think maybe you could unlock your gantry put wherever you wanted to put it lock the laser have it go and then turn on the rotary but there's definitely an order of operations there okay so since i have my image here framed up and this is where the laser is i want to come over here and i messed up on this first because i put this at center which if you watch the way it runs it's it thinks that's the center of the image now so it runs down to halfway through so basically this will carve off the top of your tumbler right now so what you want to do is since this is the position that i picked to put it in i'm going to pick this i'm going to pick middle right for its location okay so now once we have that set to the middle right and a lot of times if you have this set incorrectly it'll give you an out of bounds thing because it it thinks it's going to go up here i think i had it set to like top center or something or another i don't know anyway just so you know now if i um if i frame it now see how the tumbler is is spinning and the laser staying in one place so we're going to go ahead and hit go and cross our fingers all right we're just going to run some water on that and take our magic eraser to it just a melamine sponge i buy these off of amazon like 50 for like 18 bucks wow that's some clean lines all right guys so i just want to stop and say thanks for sticking around till this time in the video if you like this video hit that like button if you haven't subscribed please hit that subscribe button it really helps me out and speaking of helping me out i would just like to say thanks to all of my patrons especially a new addition beezer getting that single shout out for that five dollar level and it wouldn't be a build that build video if i didn't say thanks to all of my top tier or boilermaker patrons steven mann eric weiss derek coates chuck faulkner puffy muffins jim carter andy the viking dwight smith christopher walters and todd stewart cheersies if you want to help out the channel and you've not joined my patreon page i will link it down below head on over check it out and if you're feeling froggy this is much faster than i've done the same engrave on one of my diode lasers downstairs it's very clean not to say they wouldn't be really like the way it turned out and it's just crisp and clean mmm it's kind of funky it's say it with me it's kind of funky so good so good it looks even better when the lettering is the right way but yeah guys check that out but it's more of like a time intensive build it's not really a difficult build and if something didn't fall apart or not have a screw put in it when i got it and had to put it together then it's not a build that build built so remember as makers if we run into a problem what do we do just ask vanilla ice there was a problem now that is it thanks for playing i gotta get to work camera angle on it is don't do that this is magnetic sometimes hey man someone stole your battery tell me what that's from only only my really old uh school guys will know that one phone in there the hell is it there's a bug floating in my booze oh he's delicious it's okay it's okay\n"