Most of the cutting required for this project went fairly smoothly, although in order to cut all the way through the wood we ended up charring many of the edges to our pieces. The smaller pieces came out the easiest, but the large gears were more difficult. The source of this difficulty was that when cutting the large gears, the laser would do one tooth, then move across the entire gear and do another, so on and so forth. This resulted in very inefficient cutting. First we tried adjusting engravelab settings to correct the problem, but weren’t able to get any better results. Eventually we decided to go back to the original AI file and join the paths that were causing us trouble. We then imported this new AI file into engravelab and the gear was cut in one continuous motion. This greatly increased the quality of our cuts, and decreased the time it took to cut out our gears. Pictures coming soon…