机械雕刻是一个使用旋压刀在机械驱动主轴上进行切割或是在材料中创建路线的过程，不论是完全通过减法性过程来创建形状或是孔洞，或是以预定深度创造符号和图像铭刻。

Because of the wide range of materials that rotary machines can engrave, including acrylic, traffolyte, glass, ceramic, wood, stone, any type of machinable bare metal, including aluminum, brass, stainless steel (machinable grades), silver, gold, titanium, platinum and solid surface material, rotary engraving is excellent for machine tags, legend plates and permanent marking on fixtures and equipment. For ADA signage, it is easier to create the required raised lettering and Braille dots by rotary engraving.