This project had a few bumps, but I was able to work out my box in the end.
Because of ENGI 120, I have vector cut wood, acrylic, and plastic (one that was allowed) before. However, this project allowed me to become familiar with engraving on materials using photos and converting to svg files.
To complete this project 1 first attended a training session with Cris. During this, we got to engrave and cut out an ice-cream cone!
Before we cut out the ice-cream cone, we had to do test cuts in order to figure out the right speed setting for the vector cut. On this material, we ended up using 8% speed at 100% power and 10% frequency.
Cris and I had our session to use the laser cutter after dinner the same day. On of Cris’s test cuts, we learned that the ice-cream cone from earlier fit perfectly on King Dedede’s hand 😀
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After our training, I designed my box for cutting. I used the website to make the box.
When using Illustrator, I did a simple two-sided design, one with my name and information, and the other with my college emblem and a tiny blobfish.
 
When using the printer, I kept running into the problem of the printer laser shutting off at 10 pm on the weekends and 8 pm on the weekdays. Also, even with a reservation, I could only go in the evening and the back log of people with reservations still trying to finish up, meant that I was not able to get to the machine until right before it shut down.
In this moment, I have not cut but once I was able to cut, everything should go smoothly. First, I used the coordinate system to place my box. Then I vector cut at 12% s, 100% p, and 10% f and engraved at 600 r, 100% s, and 40% power.
Cost estimate:
$5 for wood
$40 for my work over 4 hours
Total of $45.
