This is similar to the maximum size of panels that fit in our machines (and that you can buy here). The maximum size of a drawing is 60x30 cm (600 x 300 mm).Attention: drawings that have been made in GIMP or Photoshop can only be engraved, not cut! In order to create this, we can recommend a free program: GIMP. When you want to engrave a picture, this needs to be a picture saved as a. Modeīesides these RGB values of the lines and surfaces, also the Alpha- (A) and Opacity- (O) values are important. In order to be able to use these three, you need to use the correct settings in your drawing program. The laser cutter has 3 settings: engraving, cutting and 'fast-cutting' (= thin cutting line which does not cut through the material). For the lines that you want to cut, you take the thinnest possible line in your software package. For tutorials in Dutch we refer to our own tutorials on the key chain and clock.įor the laser cutter you need files that have been made in a 2D- or 3D drawing program.
The laser cutter needs these ‘vector’ lines to be able to cut.Ī link to a basic tutorial (and other tutorials) or Inkscape, you can find here.
Inkscape works what they call “vectorial” and this is necessary to be able to cut with the laser machine. It matches the commercial packages such as Illustrator and Coreldraw. svg-file), as this is for free and very reliable.
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