I have a Shark 2.0 that I have been using for the last two years. I have routed over 1000 of the same plaques using the same images. Up until two weeks ago, the machine recognized the thinner lines in the images and routed them shallower than the thicker (wider) vectors. The images were great and showed a lot of detail. For the past two weeks, the machine will not recognize the different depths and the entire image is routed at the same depth, resulting in a washed out image with not detail.
I am routing at a depth of .075 and using a 60 degree V bit. This is the same setup I have used for the past 2 years successfully. All of the settings are the same but the results now are horrible. I have been on the phone with NextWave trying to figure it out and also spents a couple hours on the phone with the folks at Vector in London. We can't get this figured out. The machine is not the problem as I have sent the files to Next Wave and they have been run on two of their machines with the same, horrible results. We have tried using a different post processor, but still not change.
I have also re-imported the image and created a new .crv and .tap files in case the original .crv/.tap files were corrupted. Still no change.
Frustrating to say the least. Can anyone offer any help ????/
Steve