3. Computer controlled cutting

This week we working as team in order to experiment with diferents cutting speed and power ranges of our laser cutting machine .

Laser cutting

Laser cutting is a digital fabrication process, Laser cutting is mainly a thermal process in which a focused laser beam is used to melt material in an area. We use in this assignment an UNIVERSAL LASER SYSTEM machine depicted in the figure

The technique used to calculate the Kerf, it was measuring the width of material that is removed by a cutting process, our instructor Oliver taught us this technique, which consists of making a rectangle with different lines, then measuring the excess space and dividing it by the number of lines.

The space was measured in 2.77mm as is shown in the figure, we divided it between the 9 lines, the result was 0.3mm which is laser roughin

Assemblies

Our team cut different anssemblies.

Applications of the Assemblies

We designed a famous Star Wars ship .

The files of this project available to download on the following links