<p> After completing my personal work for this week, my peers and I worked on characterizing our laser cutter’s settings for two different materials, 0.125” cardboard and 0.125” plywood. We began by creating a .cdr file in CorelDraw and exporting it to our large Epilog cutter. Within the Epilog software, we began to change the values for different functions one at a time in order to determine the most optimal setting for each process. Our findings are compiled in extensive detail on our <ahref="https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/theodore.warner/site">group project</a>, which all of my peers and I contributed to writing. I have also included a brief description of what I did to contribute to our <ahref="https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/theodore.warner/site">group project</a> below this text. </p>
<h3> My <ahref="https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/theodore.warner/site">Group Project</a> contributions </h3>
<p> During this week’s <ahref="https://gitlab.fabcloud.org/theodore.warner/site">group project</a> I worked on characterizing the settings for our large Epilog cutter with fellow classmate <ahref="http://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/charlotte/students/drew-griggs/">Drew Griggs</a>. We began by creating a color-mapped file in <ahref="https://www.coreldraw.com/en/">Corel Draw</a> and exporting it to our laser cutter. We incremented the settings for each individual setting during different cuts to determine the most optimal setting for each value to allow our cuts to cut through the material but to also maximize the speed and electrical efficiency of each cut that we ran. After completing our tests to determine the best settings for the cutter, I wrote several paragraphs of the description for this week’s work on our site. </p>
<p> During this week’s <ahref="http://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/charlotte/Group Assignments/week01/">group project</a> I worked on characterizing the settings for our large Epilog cutter with fellow classmate <ahref="http://fabacademy.org/2021/labs/charlotte/students/drew-griggs/">Drew Griggs</a>. We began by creating a color-mapped file in <ahref="https://www.coreldraw.com/en/">Corel Draw</a> and exporting it to our laser cutter. We incremented the settings for each individual setting during different cuts to determine the most optimal setting for each value to allow our cuts to cut through the material but to also maximize the speed and electrical efficiency of each cut that we ran. After completing our tests to determine the best settings for the cutter, I wrote several paragraphs of the description for this week’s work on our site. </p>
