14 June 2011

Laser cutting experiment 1 in the workshop

The first experiment of laser cutting didn't work to plan. I had my pages oriented incorrectly (should be LANDSCAPE 812.8mm TALL, 475.2mm WIDE).

To use the machine, I opened my corel file, made sure everything was rgb red (the corel red), barcode numbers only had a blue outline (no black anywhere!!!), each line was a single line, and hairline thickness. Then grouped it and window selected the image (CNTRL + G)/ File/ Print/ Selection/ Properties: MDF 3mm... this is what I used) ok/ Print.

Then I opened the laser program, made sure it was on my slide, then pressed PLAY BUTTON to print.


Couple of issues with the machine, but I just had to clean up my file.

Unfortunately in my first attempt I had miscalculated the site's contour heights and somehow did not scale them accordingly with my other site objects (ie - the sheds were too large).

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