Project 4; laser cutting

Today I laser cut most of my components to make my lamp, unfortunately I had to let someone else use the laser cutter so I didn’t manage to make my lamp, however it will be done in January, so I used Corel draw to draw out all the little components, then changed all the files to vector and rasta files, and cut them out,

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I think laser cutting out the parts was the best possible method to complete this process because it’s clean, fast and cheap to do you can also reduce the amount of waste material by sustainably fitting all the components on one sheet of plastic

Laser cutter

Yesterday we also had a laser cutter induction with Mike (technician), he showed how we use the illustrator software to print 2D objects, he showed us how to set up all the printing properties and how to change the lines so they are suitable for the laser cutter, also he showed us how to put the material in the machine and how to set it up.