Jim,
I have created an excedllent selection of engraving fonts. Advise and I can send some info or a couple to try.

Fred
Quality One Engravers
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
fred@q1engravers.com

A real problem with EngraveLab, however in version 7 you can open multiple instances of the program, usually 3 is the max I ever have running at a time.

Fred
Quality One Engravers
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
fred@q1engravers.com

Fred,
Thanks for your input on EngraveLab. Do you know why CadLink hasn't done more to promote this program at trade shows? I know there have been a few ARA seminars about EngraveLab, but I have never seen a hands on workshop offered or much being done by CadLink or their distributors to promote this program in the exhibit area. At sign shows, they have a very nice booth with a demonstration area set up to promote SignLab. I am sure there are not as many potential customer's for the engraving software as there are for the sign making program, but they seem to treat EngraveLab as an after thought to their primary product. I hope these comments don't sound like a criticism of you because I have never seen anyone work as hard at trade shows as you do.

Thanks for your comments,
Chris

Hi Fred

I am sat here working on 6 files at the moment as orders come in - that will go up to 7 when I get the next lot of medallion holders from you!

cheers

Andrew

Hi Chuck,

We have been so busy with our business, things are growing dramatically.Stay tuned for our new state of the art website.

regards
Peter

Here is some more advise. I am currently using v7. It is far superior to 6, especially the driver area. And as always the old version is soon forgot and only problems on the new worked on. There is a training video that takes you thru much of the program avaialable. I can procure this for you.
Here is my list for you:
1. make a commitment to yourself.
2. Update to v7
3. Make sure the fonts you require are present, do not hatch fill a true type font unless absolutely necessary.
4. get the instructional video
5. Sign up for the Help Line support, (about $150/yr).
6. Complain via email to your dealer about anything that you don't understand or don't like or doesn't work. AND aks them to cc you the email to Cadlink to resolve the problem.
7. For 1 FULL day do not run a single item from your other software. Force yourself to muscle thru any problem. Try to coordinate with dealer or Cadlink to be available for you. Do basic jobs first. Don't make the first job a scanned logo with Crane schematic.
8. Make yourself a useful location to save your jobs. I like a folder called C:\1Jobs and a tree underneith A-Z, 0-9. I can email u a batch file to generate this in 1 second.
9 If you don't like the program after all this, ask for your money back. I have refunded only one sale out of over 200.

You'll soon be more productive. Good Luck

Fred
Quality One Engravers, Inc.
fred@q1engravers.com

Logojohn,

Just like you, I to love to work with XWG software. One thing I miss is spellchecker that was part of original package and it had included French and German spellcheck option along with English and American English. With newer upgrades I can't access them any more.
Have you had at any point French and German spellchecker on your system? I belive it has been dropped in version 4 or 5. It would come handy on numerous occasions.

Tony

I don't remember ever engraving an award with French or German.
I have a regular customer who uses Laotian and just did my first in Chinese.
Down here in "Tejas" a Spanish spell check would be very useful.
My biggest complaint is some of the XLG engraving fonts that don't have some of the tildas and accented letters that are common in Spanish.

I had a couple years of Spanish in high school but still have trouble figuring out the scribbling some people give us.

Have you every tried or do you use XGW to run the Universal laser or will it work?

Logojohn, yes I do run Universal laser from XWG all the time.
I find it lot easier to set-up panel layuots in XWG vs. Coreldraw. Using simple drawing tools and place them in x, y coordinates quick and easy.

Tony

C_Burke,

A dongle is a plug that either plugs into your parallel port or more currently a usb port. It cost a few dollars to get a usb dongle but are much better and aften required if running XP.

My chip system uses a 6 gallon cannister rather than 1 gal std. It is something you could duplicate. I got no patent on using a big o area of empty space. Probably should have. Would own Rancho Cucamonga. HaHa

Please email me off this site for other stuff. I would rather not use this site as a selling means.

Often information, advise and products go hand in hand but I know I would not want a sales ad associated with input.

I will look into the possible download bug. grrrrrrrrr

Fred@q1engravers.com

Hi Fred,

I guess I should have phrased my question differently.

I know what a dongle is physically....I just don't understand the point....Corel doesn't use one.....what is it's purpose?

I'll be in touch.

Its purpose is to stop the software being thieved for other people to use.
Or even yourself.

Your software will not operate without one.

Dongle= Key, but for only one computer, you want more, they cost you more.
$1,000 is not out of the question.

regards

Peter

That would be up to the software. Basically the software checks to see if the dongle is there and if it is then the software does whatever the software does. If no dongle, then the software stops running or might go into a demo mode (again, that's up to whoever wrote the software).

There's no specific thing that a dongle allows or not. It's simply a special piece of hardware that software designed to recognize it can then check for it and recognize it.

Dongles usually have some encrypted number stored in them that relates to whatever company or software it is used for. So a dongle supplied by, for example, Newtek to use with Lightwave 3D software is useless to run Vision engraving software, even if the dongle is manufactured by the same dongle maker and looks exactly the same. It's internal encrypted number is different so the software doesn't recognize it.