Monday 7 February 2011

Laser Cutter Session

Had a quick laser cutter session, quick and simple! 
Brief tutorial on how it works and what it can do. Hard to get my head around burning material and it not just going up in flames, but lasers - who needs scalpels or scissors anymore when you can get such detailed cutouts from a computer?






It's a bit like my previous experience with a CAM except this uses lasers. Coloured lines to send information to the cutter, different colours = different response. Scoreline, cutline, etc. Also a possibility is etching, which I didn't know of till this tutorial. Apparently this works better on acrylic:


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