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pin point positioning system - automatic alignment and rotation?
Dan M
Published on Dec 31,2025
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I have access to an Xtool S1 and recently tried it out on a project where I had 20 small rectangular pieces of the same size and material.  I carefully placed them with as close to 0 degree rotation as possible, used the pin point system to mark the 20 pieces as rectangular and then drug the different bits of art onto each one.  One thing I found frustrating is that when trying to center each bit of art on each processing area, I'd get lines indicating the art was aligned to the other bits of art or other processing areas (because I had to many on the screen) and it was slow and tedious to get each aligned only to its corresponding processing area.  Also this process assumed I didn't have any of my rectangles rotated a little bit.  These were approximately 0.25" x 2.5" so a little rotation could be a big deal.

So, my questions are:

  1. Is there a way to somehow select a processing area (I could never figure out how to select the rectangles shown on the screen) and a piece of art and automatically center the art?
  2. If I use the polygon pin point marking and mark all 4 corners of a rectangle, is there a way to automatically rotate art to match the rotation?  For this I assume that internally there would need to be some sort of best fit of width/height/rotation of a rectangle to match the points.
  3. In the past with less nice laser (before the Xtool S1),  for engraving a large number of identically objects (game tokens, etc) I would use a drawing tool to fill a page with the outline of the object plus the art (different color), print the page, tape it on the bed of the engraver and then carefully line up all of my tokens in the circles.  Then in the software with that laser there was something that let me line up on those 3 marks both on the screen and with the laser and then the software would rotate (and scale if allowed) to line it all up.  It was pretty quick then to engrave a whole page of tokens, then place a bunch of new ones and engrave those.  Is this still a good way with the Xtool S1 and Xtool Studio or is there a better way?  I still would have the rotation problem in Xtool Studio (i.e. no automatic rotation if I managed to get my paper stuck in the unit slightly rotated.  I suppose I could also use a thin piece of plywood that is secured and first just burn the outlines and then place tokens on those outlines but  I hate to use plywood as a throw away template like that.

Thanks so much for any suggestions. 

-Dan

 

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