DRIVE YOUR LASER FROM THE SAME SOFTWARE AS YOUR ROTARY ENGRAVER

GravoStyle engraving software provides the ability to drive your laser as well as your rotary engraver. It can be used with lasers from all manufacturers that provide a Windows driver. GravoStyle5 software pioneered the single engraving platform which can drive both technologies (see video). Benefits include:

• Quick and convenient 1-click switching between rotary and laser engraving modes. No need to export your design from one software and import in different software. Saves time & money.

1-Click Switching Between Engraving Modes

• Easier work environment
• Different screen background colors help distinguish your working environment: gray for rotary; blue for laser
• Automatically organizes toolbars. Only the current toolbar is displayed unless docked
• Displays just the tools and toolbars applicable for rotary or laser technology
• Reduces cross-training time since most of the design tools are the same in both rotary and laser technologies
• Automatically uses the default engraving machine for the current engraving mode saving time and avoiding confusion
• Automatically uses the appropriate engraving output dialog for your machine

Appropriate output dialog automatically displayed for current working mode

• The integrated laser driver is unique to Gravograph. Unlike competitor’s drivers which must be accessed through the standard Windows printer dialogs, GravoStyle and LaserStyle require just 1 click to open the Lasering dialog (click for video). This dialog (shown above, right) provides the interface to the laser and many user benefits:

• All lasering job parameters such as material dimensions, power, speed, passes, air assist, offset, orientation and engraving modes are saved with the job. This is a huge time-saver especially when needing to run the job again at a later date. Avoid having to re-run power and speed tests the next time you run the job and reduce errors and wasted material as a result
• The material dimensions are known and automatically entered. In comparison with competitor drivers, these parameters must be manually entered through the standard Windows printer dialog
• Enhanced layer management in GravoStyle5 allows any combination of layers to be output to the laser as one or separate jobs, a task difficult to do in design software disconnected from the driver.

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