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abfahren

English translation: to trace

10:52 Jul 19, 2017
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)
German term or phrase: abfahren
The text is about engraving a piece of metal, during this process "die Gravur wird abgefahren", could this be something like traced?

"Da dieser jedoch bei der Gravur abgefahren wird, verlängert sich die Bearbeitungsdauer."

Thank you in advance!
Helene Lyons
Spain
Local time: 07:57
English translation:to trace
Explanation:
to trace = abfahren
to be traced
tracing

... as you already suspected

However, more context and a whole sentence in German would have been useful as would have been some enlightenment re. 'Dieser ...".

DE:
Die Vektorgravur wird auch oft als "Anritzen" bezeichnet. Die Ausgangsdatei ist eine Graphik aus Vektoren (Linien und Kurven einer Geometrie) und wird in der Grafik als Haarlinie gekennzeichnet. So wird bei der Übergabe vom Grafikprogramm zur Lasersoftware JobControl® die Kontur als Vektorgravur erkannt. Vektor für Vektor wird vom Laser abgefahren und dabei graviert.

EN:
Vector engraving, often referred to as “scoring,” is a process where the file to be printed is a graphic file consisting of vectors (lines and curves of a geometry), marked as hairlines in the graphics.
When the file is imported from the chosen graphics program to the JobControl® laser software, the outline is identified as vector engraving. Vector by vector is traced by the laser and then laser engraved. The axles move simultaneously and slower when vector engraving than when raster engraving.
https://www.troteclaser.com/en-gb/knowledge/tips-for-laser-u...

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Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:57
Grading comment
Thank you Marga!
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to trace


Explanation:
to trace = abfahren
to be traced
tracing

... as you already suspected

However, more context and a whole sentence in German would have been useful as would have been some enlightenment re. 'Dieser ...".

DE:
Die Vektorgravur wird auch oft als "Anritzen" bezeichnet. Die Ausgangsdatei ist eine Graphik aus Vektoren (Linien und Kurven einer Geometrie) und wird in der Grafik als Haarlinie gekennzeichnet. So wird bei der Übergabe vom Grafikprogramm zur Lasersoftware JobControl® die Kontur als Vektorgravur erkannt. Vektor für Vektor wird vom Laser abgefahren und dabei graviert.

EN:
Vector engraving, often referred to as “scoring,” is a process where the file to be printed is a graphic file consisting of vectors (lines and curves of a geometry), marked as hairlines in the graphics.
When the file is imported from the chosen graphics program to the JobControl® laser software, the outline is identified as vector engraving. Vector by vector is traced by the laser and then laser engraved. The axles move simultaneously and slower when vector engraving than when raster engraving.
https://www.troteclaser.com/en-gb/knowledge/tips-for-laser-u...



Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 18
Grading comment
Thank you Marga!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: You haven't said where your first reference comes from, and your second is not a very good translation.
57 mins
  -> The reference applies to both the German and the English paragraph.
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