 Hi guys, my name's Jen from iCrateCrafts. In today's video I'm going to be talking about my new X tool machine that I just purchased. I absolutely love it I've done a few things with it already, but today is going to be a big project I'm actually going to be cutting or actually lasering I should say on a piece of wood like this Unfortunately I lost my uncle a little while ago, and I'm gonna make a memorial for him for my aunt And I'm really excited to use the X tool to pretty much engrave in this over here I have a CNC machine. I don't actually want to cut it out. I just want to have it lasered on So this is going to be a new thing to me And I wanted to show you guys how to do it my husband's behind the camera right now He's gonna help me out to kind of show me how to do this because he's been doing a few But I'm really excited to see how this is gonna turn out just a piece of wood if you follow my channel I do a lot of projects on wood I'm going to be doing more on the CNC machine and also the X tool in case you're interested So hit that subscribe button if you're not already subscribed and let's get started on this project All right So the first thing we need to do is open up the software program that came with X tool and it's called laser box There's a basic version and a more advanced version So if Jen you said you wanted these words, which are a lot of words. Yeah, there's a lot of words in there to be engraved On this piece of wood. Yeah So the first thing we need to do is figure out the size and everything in laser boxes and millimeters and you're making this very tricky Because we're not using a rectangle. So let's just see this is 180 millimeters 18 centimeters 180 millimeters just about I'm going kind of on the inside so 180 by 240 so let's insert an oval that is that size So I just did the oval randomly and then over here. I can select 180 by 240 so that looks roughly the same as that right Pretty close. This isn't a perfect oval, but that should get as close to that the letters are within it. I hope Again, we're not experts at this. You're learning with us. So let's see So now we have to put the words in this is going to be the really fun part So we got all of the text into laser box basic. This is just a basic programming I think if we use the more advanced one, we'd be able to center it better. We had to manually center this So now we're going to try to engrave it. So we need to connect to x-tools. So I'm going to turn this on and then up here in the upper right laser box and Then over here See now this I just cut I don't think we're going to do it. That was just for guidance. I'm going to delete that I think Now I'm going to click start but before it starts. There's this really cool framing tool Okay So now we're in the framing part and there's this little dot and you can put it for example in the center of your workpiece Or you can put it like where you want the first word So I'm going to try that and that's where you start the laser and then it's going to kind of tell you where it is So now show the laser. I'm controlling the laser. I'm putting it where I think the first word is going to be It's going to be real close. Should we just try it? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work Yep, we're going to try it guys Yeah, you gotta have your goggles on you cannot look at this laser. Oh jeez. That's your eyes up. Okay So here's what it looks like when we finish it not really too bad for the first try We did go over a little bit, but like my husband said it's not a square and it's not a perfect oval either It's just a piece of wood That was cut so it turned out really good for the first time it is on here. It is not going to rub off It's not going to come off at all and I'm going to finish it up by just putting a little hanger on the back And then I'm going to give it to her To my aunt for a gift for a celebration of life, but I really love how this turned out I'm going to have so much fun with this x-tool. I can't believe I cannot wait for the possibilities to do this plus like I said we have the Bob C&C machine too, so we're going to be doing a lot of that too also working with the Cricut machine I want to show you guys. This is what it looked like. I really really like this So if you're interested in looking at something like this is called an x-tool I will leave a link in the description below in case you're interested in one of these But I highly recommend it. I had a lot of fun with this and my husband was helping with it So I may have a lot of learning to go yet, but this was a lot of fun And I can't wait to give this to her