Water Bottle
One of the assignments we had to do was to engrave a water bottle. Since I am a huge fan of game of thrones I decided to make a House Baratheon design. I used there sigil and the words House Baratheon. The first thing I did was load the image that I wanted to use into Illustrator. Then I made sure it fit the size requirements which were 9x5.5 inches. I then opened it on illustrator by the laser cutter. I set up the water bottle in the rotational holder. and set up the image and laser in the UCP. I then let it engrave the bottle into what I have now.
3-D Object
The First thing I did for this assignment was going to Thingiverse. I then chose the design of a fly. I opened it in illustrator and moved it to a 18x32 in work area. I moved the outline of the fly to the work area and enlarge it so it would be bigger. I made sure all the lines I wanted cut out were red and with a width of .0001 inches. I then got a 18x32 piece of cardboard and put it in the laser cutter. I moved my file to the illustrator by the laser cutter. I made sure the preferences were matboard and the thickness was correct. I went to the UCP and lined up the laser with the top left of the cardboard and started cutting. After that was done I put together the pieces and made my fly. YAY!
Notebook
For the notebook we had to have a design. Since it was Halloween I did a Halloween theme with a spooky looking tree, ghost, and other Halloween things. After I finished setting up the cover and back. I made sure the out line was red and at .0001 to be cut. Then I made sure the stuff that was to be engraved was black. After that I brought it down to the laser and made sure it was matboard and the thickness was correct. I then lined up the laser with the material. I closed the cover of the laser cutter and hit play and watched the laser cut out my notebook. After it was cut. I brought it to the hole puncher. I put the holes in the board and I cut out paper, 40 sheets, and punched holes in that as well. after I grabbed a spiral and put it through the paper and board. I cut off the extra spiral part and then I finished the notebook.
What I learned
In this rotation I learned about what you need to do in order to use the laser. Such as what color line do what, red cut and black engrave. I also learned how to set up the laser cutter to cut water bottles. I also learned to use the UCP to set up the laser and start at certain points.