Laser Cutting is a new invention of technology used to cut material using laser.Laser cutting works by directing the output of a high power laser asdirected

through computer. The material melts, burns, vaporizes away, or is blown away by a jet of gas, leaving an edge with a high quality surface finish.

The process:

  1. Create design with software CorelDraw, other software like Adobe Illustrator can also be used.
  2. Choose different colors for applying different line properties.
  3. For vector line, the outline color is chosen whereas for raster, fill color is used.

Firstly I tested the different speed and power properties using different color in rough material. It helped to understand the settings with raster and vector properties.

The note was taken for future reference.

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Then the tested values were used for final product design. In this project, I have used all raster graphic with different power and speed values except for edge cutting frame.

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Different colors were used with different color and property settings to create different cutting patterns in design. This is a design of size 6”x6”, the glass was easily available in lab. It’s a simple design with composition of rectangles with different cutting properties.

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After getting design ready, send it to print then arranged the properties with following values:

The edge cutting vector line property is Power 100 with speed 0.6.

And other inner raster design properties are:

Power 100 with speed 50

Power 30 with speed 100

Power 10 with speed 5

Then send to print.

In laser cutter press green start button. In case of stopping the machine to cut, we can open the top cover of the laser cutter which will cancel the laser cutting process. The laser will beep when the cutting is completely done.

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