SHELL . LASER CUT

FIRST ATTEMPT 

7 APRIL 2016

I generated a pdf. file from 123D Make and bought it with me to the FabLab. This is first page of the pdf. as it shows the shape outlines in blue and the engravings in red. 

I have never tried laser cutting, so I asked Anthony for help and he told me that the maximum working surface for laser cutting is 300x600 mm and the outlines should be in red RGB colour, and the engraving should be in blue at 0.001pt. I had to then edit the first template in Abode Illustrator and laser cut it to see if it works out well. 

Once the template is edited in Adobe Illustrator, the file is transferred to a laser cutting software. Anthony advised that I should try it on 2mm screen board to see if it works. 

The first template turned out fine. However the only issue was that I needed to laser cut at least another 36 panel.