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In case a fire breaks out spray it out with the water spray bottle on the side of the machine. +![alt text](image.jpg) ### Turning the machine on When we first turned on the machine it made a lot of noise. Laser cutters are very noisy machines. The power switch is the big red switch on the side. @@ -57,9 +58,9 @@ After that you need to wait for a minute for the systems to start up. After that ### Laser software (LightBurn) To control and program the laser we use LightBurn. It's a easy software to use in my opinion. - +//TODO: lightburn docs ### Testing materials -minimum power is corner power. That's why our test went wrong. +For testing the laser cutter we're gonna use cardboard, acrylic and wood. ### Cardboard @@ -150,4 +151,57 @@ When cutting also make sure that your design that you're cutting doesn't drop do After brainstorming for a while I'm gonna make a drawer construction kit. It's gonna be for a simple 4 drawer box right now. ## Fusion tips -use drawing tab (thanks michelle) \ No newline at end of file +use drawing tab (thanks michelle) + +length betweent the teeths needs to be the same everywhere +also create middle cutout for other middle section + + +### Designing +I started by designing my base for my construction kit in fusion360 as a sketch. +![alt text](FusionBaseSketch.jpg) +I have made the teeth on the outside so I could extrude them as a separate body so I could use the pattern tool to attach them to the sides. + +Once I extruded the teeth as separate bodies I could use the pattern tool to automatically generate the rest of the teeth. +![alt text](F360Pattern.jpg) +Using that tool I made the multiple bodies into one body. + +After I did that four times I was left with a lot of separate bodies. So to combine them I went into the Modify tab and then selected combine. +![alt text](F360combine.jpg) + + + +### Turning the 3D model into a SVG file + +Here I've had some struggles because when using Fusions build in export utility it only exports the sketches. After that I creating a new sketch and then projecting the 3D design onto the sketch. +![alt text](F360Project.jpg) +But the issue with this is that it isn't 100% accurate + +Then I tried the Shaper Origin tool. But that crashed my fusion when I tried running it. After struggling for a while Michelle came to me and showed me the drawing tab of Fusion where you can define flat drawings of your 3d models and export them as svg. +The tab is found here. +![alt text](DrawingTab.jpg) + +Once you press that this menu will pop up + +![alt text](Drawingsettings.jpg) + +The standard settings are fine. You maybe wanna increase the sheet size to get your full design on it. + +![alt text](Drawingscreen.jpg) + +Now you will enter this screen. You wanna set the scale to 1:1 and change the orientation to the top (if you've designed from the top). + +![alt text](Squareboxdrawing.jpg) +You can Left click to place your design on the paper. Once you've placed everything you can select the outer borders and press delete. + +![alt text](beforedelete.jpg) +![alt text](afterdelete.jpg) + +So you end up with this. + +Now you can export the file as DXF file that LightBurn can understand. +## Vinyl cutter +https://modsproject.org/ (made during fabacedemy) (using for making pcb's, cnc machine and roland vinyl cutter) +Roland GX-24 -GS24 +Connects through webusb but doesn't work +