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II. FiloCUT

For my wildcard week, I used a FiloCUT3 cnc hot-wire foam cutter.

preparing the file

I would like to cut the fablab logo. As in the Computer-controlled cutting week, I got the logo from the the Wikipedia’s Fab Lab page as a svg file.
To convert the svg into dxf I opened it in inkscape and saved it as dxf

FiloCAM

The cutter uses it’s bundled software called FiloCAM.
A German test version of FiloCAM is available at the bottom of the german FiloCUT3 page.
It’s not possible to change the language, so the following screenshots are German. Sorry for that !

I’ve imported the dxf

and removed the letters

I combined the single parts. Otherwise the hot-wire isn’t able to cut all three of this

Then it has to be converted into FlatCAMs fcd

And this how it looks like after converting

Cutting procedure

I placed the foam in the machine

and adjust it’s direction, that it is rectangular to the buildplate. Otherwise I would have a deformed cut.

The machine is connected via an USB Cable to the computer and with a click on the "start cutting" button

the cutting procedure starts.

And this is the result

Good !

Add a circle

Additionally I would like to have a simple foam circle under the logo. So I drew one in FiloCAM

and cut it

And this is the final result

downloads

Here are the downloads:

Fab_Lab_logo.svg is the logo from the wikipedia page.
Fab_Lab_logo.dxf is the converted logo as dxf.
Fab_Lab_logo.fcd is the logo as filoCAM file.
circle.fcd is the filoCAM file of the simple circle.