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A Project Storage Box

1 Designing your own lid for the laser cutter

Try It

  • First let's open up the program. Go to your desktop and open 2D designs.

2D_design.png

  • You will now need to setup the page size.

Setup.png

  • Select user defined.

User_defined.png

  • Change X to 145mm and Y to 90mm on both the Material Size AND the Design guide.

Dimensions.png

  • Now it is time to search for the images you want for your box.

Search_image.png

  • You will need to select images and then go to the 'Tool' settings.
    • Change the colour to Black and White
    • Change the type to line drawing

Advanced_search.png

  • Try to avoid images with too much detail.

Image_avoid.png

  • Copy the image you wish to use.

Copy_image.png

      • Now paste your image onto the page. Right click on the mouse and select 'paste'.

Adjust_paste.png

      • You will now need to vectorise the bitmap.

Vectorise.png

      • Select monochrome and then click OK.

Monochrome.png

      • Click OK again.

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      • You can now add text to your image.

Add_text.png

      • The text can then be adjusted to different sizes.

Text_adjust.png

Watch this video for a worked example.

Please watch this video. It will explain how to use the laser cutter.