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<h1 class="mt-4 text-center">Computer-Controlled Cutting</h1>
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<h5 class="mt-4"> [Group] Characterize your lasercutter, making test part(s) that vary cutting settings and dimensions.</h5>
<h5 class="mt-4"> [Individual] Cut something on the vinylcutter design, lasercut, and document a parametric press-fit construction kit,
accounting for the lasercutter kerf, which can be assembled in multiple ways.</h5>
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<p class="lead text-center">1. Characterize the lasercutter in FabLab Seoul.</p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/001.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
<p>Making a website, cutting woods on the lasercutter, ... Everything I do in FabAcademy is a whole new challenge!
<br>As I love collecting small, cute design goods like stickers and DIY kits, I always wanted to make those stuffs for myself.
So I was really excited to learn how to use a laser cutter and a vinyl cutter last week! ... though I didn't do anything with the vinylcutter(spend whole time playing with a laser cutter...)</p>
<p>The lasercutter in FabLab Seoul is CO2 lasercutter.
According to the explanation on Wikipedia, the carbon dioxide laser (CO2 laser) is one of the most useful lasers.
It is the highest-power continuous wave laser that are currently available.
Also quite efficient: the ratio of output power to pump power can be as large as 20%.
The CO2 laser produces a beam of infrared light with the principal wavelength bands centering on 9.4 and 10.6 micrometers (μm).</p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/016.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
<br><p>We can <b>cut</b> or <b>engrave</b> some materials on a laser cutter.
The work process is as follows:</p>
<p> 1. Save your design as <font color="blue">dxf files.</font>
<br>2. Set the speed and power of a laser cutter: If you want to engrave, you should higher the speed and lower the power.
<br>3. Adjust the distance between the laser and the surface of a material.
<br>4. Control the position of laser to start cutting.</p>
<p>And these are <b>the materials you can cut on a laser cutter:
</b> wood, paper, acryl, PETG, ABS, PP, fabric, leather</p>
<p>Things you can't cut: Inorganic substances(glass, metal), PC </p>
<p>During the laser cutting process, smoke occurs and it smells really bad.
Thought the device for smoke extraction is connected to a laser cutter, do not open the laser cutter right after the cutting ends. </p>
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<p class="lead text-center">2. Make test part(s) that vary cutting settings and dimensions.</p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/002.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
<p>My instructor told me to cut the target-like design on a laser cutter in two different sequences: 1. from inside to outside 2. from outside to inside.
By changing the color of the line, I could set the sequence, mode(cut or engrave), speed and power of cutting in detail.</p>
<p>On the first trial, I set very high speed and low power on black(: S(300.00) / P(10.0)) and pink(: S(100.00) / P(10.0)) line, but somehow only the pink line was engraved.
As you can see in the picture below, for precise cutting, it is necessary to set the cutting sequence from inside out.</p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/003.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
<p>The pictures below shows how the thickness of line changes when the speed of cutting gets faster.
To engrave in a strong line, relatively low speed is required.
If the cutting speed is fast, the line can partly wiggle. </p>
<p>To practice using a laser cutter, I used a thin plywood - and I decided to use the same material for a parametric press-fit construction kit.
I measured the thickness of the material with calipers, and it was about 2.7 mm(red line).</p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/004.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
<p>I designed comb-like stuffs to find out the difference between the set value on a structural design and the actual value after the laser cutting.
I wanted to know the value that I have to set on the design program when I want an actual value of 2.7mm, which is the thickness of the plywood that I used. </p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/005.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
<p>And it turned out that the set value should be 2.14mm to be 2.7mm after the laser cutting.
Miriam did the same thing with an acryl and we shared the results as you can see below :-)</p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/006.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
<p>On the way going home after cutting things on a laser cutter for the first time in my life. It was fun but my hands got so dirty. </p>
<br><img src="image/assignment/w4/007.png" width="1100" alt=""><br><br>
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<p class="lead text-center">3. Document a parametric press-fit construction kit.</p>
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<p class="lead text-center">4. Result of this week</p>
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