Assignment-3

group assignment:

assignment characterize your lasercutter's focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, and joint clearance

Individual assignment

cut something on the vinylcutter design, lasercut, and document a parametric construction kit, accounting for the lasercutter kerf, which can be assembled in multiple ways, and for extra credit include elements that aren't flat

The Roland CAMM-1 SERVO GX-24

is the ultimate companion for print and-cut jobs with its built-in optical registration system that accurately aligns pre-printed material for contour cutting. The GX-24 comes fully loaded with everything you need to create professional-grade graphics and signs right on your desktop. Under the hood, the digital servomotor drives the cutter with maximum accuracy on anything from reflective vinyl and paint mask, to twill, heat transfer and sandblast material. A built-in curve smoothing function ensures precision cutting even at top speeds of up to 20 inches per second — 25 percent faster than its predecessor. And when it comes to ease-of-operation, the CAMM-1 SERVO GX-24 wins over even vinyl cutting rookies in seconds. Simply connect the USB interface to your computer, pan through features and functions on the easy-to-read LCD screen, and use the included CutStudio TM drawing software to create incredible graphics for banners, vehicles, store displays, point-of purchase materials, informational signs, backlit displays and more.

Roland

In our Lab, we use the Roland GX-24 for cutting the sheet. in designing the shape or the Font we use the CutStudio software. In first time, I learnt to draw with CutStudio

Roland machine

Button Roland control

There is specification of Roland Machine

Plotter Blades extention

Roland machine

Depth Set

Import the image

I imported the the africa image for making the Ectract contour lines

Extract-contour-line

separation

There are two images, then I have chosen Extract contour line

This is the image I cutted on the vinylcutter

africa printed

this is the image i wanted

i used this sheet for cutting africa m

lasercut, and document a parametric construction kit

To the Laser cutter, we have Epilog laser mini 24x12. The first started to draw with SolidWorks! In parametric construction kit, i have shown the measurement of my drawing, in solidworks. After, I saved my drawing in DXF because I would like that i found the way to print my puzzle with CorelDRAW software.

Here, I saved the drawing in DXF file, and I import in CorelDRAW

I duplicate the drawing

Before starting to print, they are table I set, the power, the speed, frequence and i have shosen the vector

This is a screenshot of the epilog machine settings for printing on the wood. The most important settings I choosed on the Epilog engraver properties was on: Job Type I choosed the vector because my intesion was to cutt-off the parts
I was engraving with the laser cutter.
Piece size I entered the horizontal and vertical size of the board I was going to work on.
Vector setting I setted the speed to 14%
so the laser can have enough time to cutt the board through it,
and the power was at the maximum,
depending on the material thickness you need to maximise the power of the lasser so it can cut through it.

Cutting Process After cutting with laser cutter

I assembled my parts and I found my product

This is the final look of the shape.

KERF

It is defined as the width of material that is removed by a cutting process. ... When talking about CNC shape cutting with typical cutting processes, kerf is the width of material that the process removes as it cuts through the plate.

What does kerf mean?
The laser burns away a portion of material when it cuts through. This is known as the laser kerf and ranges from 0.08mm – 1mm depending on the material type and other conditional factors.

The original files used for this assignment can be downloaded here.