Laser Cut Test Tile

 Laser Cut Test Tile

 

1. I first created a square 101.6 mm by 101.6mm. Then I used it to crop the original pattern. 

3. I cropped the original pattern and added a bit to fill in some space so it felt balanced. Then I trimmed all the hatches/curves that were outside of the box. Deleted the old hatches, I split the square lines with the curves, joined so they could be hatched. 

4. I made sure that my square was under the cut layer. 

The laser cutting appointment

Erica suggested I put it into greyscale. I originally had my drawing layer visible and she mentioned to have it hidden. We also had to save my file as Rhino 7 vs Rhino 8.

The greyscale was 25% 50% 75% and 100%

First Attempt: 

we used the laser masking paper, the laser did not get through the paper to the wood for the 50% and below. 

Second Attempt: 

We removed the masking paper

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