[MEBCWD]

The way Fusion 360 does engraving is to start at the left and work its way to the right, regardless of where the engraving is on the board. If the letters/numbers are only an inch or two away it isn't that bad but 48" away is way too far to be doing that, even with 600 ipm rapids.

Can you select the text separately or convert to vectors so you can control where it starts and where it ends? In Vectric software you can convert text to curves and select the vectors in the order you want them to be cut in a toolpath.

 

[MEBCWD]

David,

With Vectric if it is text and you create a page then your toolpath generated on the text will jump around. If you convert to vectors then you can multi-select parts and run the toolpath using the selection order to help limit the long rapids.