Laser Cutter Tutorial Advanced AutoCAD

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COMPUTING DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Laser Cutter Tutorial : Advanced AutoCAD
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If you wish to become a laser cutter kung-fu master. A god among architecture students. This is your tutorialSCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COMPUTING DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Laser Cutter Tutorial : Advanced AutoCAD
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Power Levels Explained
This is the point where the cutter assigns power settings to all of 8 colors, only two of which are turned on by default. You will notice that for this material, yellow has custom power levels set, but is turned off - this is a deeper, ‘bendable’ score setting, which is set up for materials that are bendable.
You can customize these settings for each color:
?’Pen Mode’: this cycles between ‘Skip’ ‘Rast/Vect’ ‘Rast’ and ‘Vect’. Skip is obviously off, but you have three choices for an ‘on’ setting.
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Vect[or] mode refers to objects that may be represented with lines, arcs, curves; most objects in AutoCAD are vector objects. The laser will simply trace the outlines of this type of object.
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Rast[er] objects are represented by an array of pixels/dots (digital photographs are raster images). The laser cutter will treat any object with a thickness greater than zero as a raster object; in AutoCAD these are solid hatches, lineweights, and unexploded text objects. Because the…