Index

Where things are. For what a word means, see the Glossary.

⭐ The glossary and this are different tools. The glossary serves someone reading; the index serves someone stuck. If you know the word and want the page, you are in the right place.

A

• Aiming pointer (red diode, galvo framing) — Sending
• AutoPrint — Printing from other software · Settings
• AWAITING ALIGN — Sending · Messages
• Air assist — Setting up a job
• Acrylic — Projects
• Anodised aluminium — Projects
• Artboard — How ALPS thinks

B

• Beziers (galvo) — Setting up a job
• Bridges (tabs) — Setting up a job
• Bridge power — Setting up a job
• Backup and restore — Appendices · Settings
• Badge Maker — Badge Maker
• BBox vs TrueShape — Layout
• Bed size — Getting started
• Bed Camera Calibration — Bed Camera Calibration
• Bed Self-Calibration — Bed Self-Calibration
• Break Apart (Ctrl+K) — Artwork · The ALPS window

C

• Cross-hatching (galvo) — Setting up a job
• Cut inner shapes first — Setting up a job
• Cut shared edges once (common-line) — Setting up a job
• Centering Point / Center Engraving — How ALPS thinks
• Calibration, camera — The camera · Bed Camera Calibration
• Camera in use by another computer — The camera · Troubleshooting
• Class 4 / pass-through — Safety · Pass-Through Wizard
• Colour decides what happens — How ALPS thinks · Your first job
• Convert Text to Path — Artwork
• CorelDRAW, printing from — Printing from other software
• Cut before engrave (why not to) — Setting up a job · Troubleshooting

D

• Dithering — Dithering Comparison · Image Prep
• DPI — DPI Test Sheet
• Double-sided work — Registration Wizard
• DXF import — Artwork · Messages

E

• Engrave before cut — Setting up a job
• Estimating when a job finishes (est.) — Sending
• Exhaust / fume extraction — Safety

F

• Frame job (trace the outline before running) — Sending
• Fill style (Sweep / S-Sweep) — Setting up a job
• Fiber galvo settings — Setting up a job
• Fixture Maker — Fixture Maker
• Focus — Safety · Setting up a job
• Fonts — Artwork · Settings
• Frequency — Setting up a job

I

• Image Prep — Image Prep
• Import artwork — Artwork · Quick start card
• Intake templates — Printing from other software

J

• Jobs screen — Sending

K

• Kerf — Setting up a job
• Keyboard shortcuts — The ALPS window
• Keychain project — Projects

L

• Line spacing (galvo fill) — Setting up a job
• Lead-in / lead-out — Setting up a job
• Lead angle (dragging) — Setting up a job
• Layout (ganging jobs) — Layout
• Leather — Projects
• Library vs My Library — The ALPS window

M

• Mark Verification — Mark Verification
• Material library — Setting up a job
• Material Test — Material Test
• Menu bar — The ALPS window
• Messages, what they mean — Messages

N

• Nesting — Production work
• Notifications — Settings

O

• Overcut — Setting up a job
• Origin (bed 0,0 is top-left) — How ALPS thinks
• Outline Review — Outline Review

P

• Position outline — see Frame job — Sending
• Precision Sync — Setting up a job
• Pierce mark — Setting up a job
• Part Digitizer — Part Digitizer
• Pass-Through Wizard — Pass-Through Wizard
• PDF import — Artwork · Messages
• Photographs, engraving — Image Prep · Artwork
• Print & Cut — Print & Cut
• Process order — Setting up a job
• Processes — How ALPS thinks · Setting up a job

Q

• QR codes and barcodes — QR & barcode
• QUEUED (does not mean running) — Sending · Messages
• Quick start — Quick start card

R

• Recipes — Settings · Printing from other software
• Registration Wizard — Registration Wizard
• Report a problem — Appendices · Troubleshooting
• Rotary — Production work · Rotary Test Pattern

S

• Shared edges, cutting once — Setting up a job
• Simulator / Simulate — Sending · Setting up a job
• Safety — Safety
• Sending a job — Sending
• Serial numbers — Production work · Settings
• Shape Match — Shape Match
• Shared folder — Settings
• Skill levels — About this manual · Appendices
• Speed and power — Setting up a job
• Stamp (not built yet) — The ALPS window

T

• Trace outline (galvo) — Sending
• Tabs / bridges — Setting up a job
• Tab width — Setting up a job
• 3D Engraving — 3D Engraving
• Tools screen — The ALPS window
• Tracing an image — Artwork
• Tray app — Printing from other software · Settings
• Troubleshooting — Troubleshooting

U

• Unidirectional engraving — Setting up a job
• Units — Settings
• Utilization — Layout

V

• Vector sorting — Setting up a job
• Variable Data — Production work
• Version number — The ALPS window · Settings
• Virtual printer — Printing from other software · Settings

W

• Wobble (fiber galvo) — Setting up a job
• Where the job lands on the bed — How ALPS thinks
• Wood — Projects

Not here? Contents lists every page in reading order, and Messages covers anything ALPS puts on screen.