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== Design == | |||
* Cut inner parts before outer parts. After a piece is cut it may fall inward in the machine, or shift by the width of the laser cut. If this happens subquent cuts in the part will be misaligned. | |||
* Leave a border, especially around the right and bottom edges. | |||
* HEFTODO add a border edge to the print with a very weak ( opointer) laser settings, and add it to the beginning of the print order. If the pointer goes off of the piece, so will the cuts. | |||
== Printing == | |||
* Vevtor cuts: set line width to 0.001 in. Everthing else is raster. | |||
* Printing vector cuts straight from inkscape does not work. Export to pdf and print from adobe. | |||
== Printing control == | |||
You can control the order of the cuts by settings the color, and use multiple cut settings. | |||
* Use colors in RGB space, and set componet colors to 0 or 255. This is not neccesary, but makes tracking colors easier. | |||
* The order of the colors in the print settings windows matches the order the cuts will be in. This is usefull for doing the inside of parts before the outside. | |||
== Notes == | |||
When importing from DXF files, don't use automatic scaling, using a scaling factor of 1. | |||
