For my first cut, I had a pretty difficult time figuring out how to upload a file and connect Retina Engrave to the actual laser cutter. I eventually figured out how to load the file, but when I went to print it, I noticed that a few of the vectors were completely missing. The 4…

Here are my first cuts, just a little late! I cut my computer-generated image on the wood. It took a while, and I couldn’t get the small laser to work, but the big laser worked as I expected it to! I initially used too many passes for the thickness of the wood, so I adjusted…

My first cuts went well! It was very interesting to design and implement the engraved piece, because I wanted different levels of depth/darkness.

For my first cuts, I cut out the climbing shoe design and waveform bitmap conversion for my first cuts. they turned out alright ish, mainly the defects were due to my lack of competence in Inkscape but yeah not too much to say here although I’d have loved to cut the spirograph the file (15…

I managed to cut the first drawing with the laser cutter on Monday.

Here are my first cuts of my first and second designs!

For my first cut on the laser I chose to cut my SVG from drawing 1, which is a very simplified version of of my current combat robot. I’m considering adding a raster and making it into a keychain. This took 3 cuts to get the cut to come out as I had expected. The…

My first cut went well. Although I anticipated being able to see that the lines on the mountain were vector cuts instead of vector engraves, to distinguish between chairlifts and trails, a difference can still be distinguished. Although the raster settings took some time to get right for the second cut, these both came out…

This is my complete Chess set and I plan to cut a board soon.

I was able to get my Drawing #1 and Drawing #3 cut, but something was wrong with my Drawing #2 where it wasn’t recognizing that the parts I wanted to raster engrave. That was as an .svg file, and I tried editing it a few times but nothing worked. I also tried importing it into…

This was a super cool experience! I have never used the laser before so I really enjoyed it. I only had the time to cut out Drawing 1 but I plan to cut out Drawings 2 and 3 soon. I really liked how it came out, I only used 30 power for the drawing. I…

This week I was able to laser-cut my first drawing! The first time I went to the laser cutter, I didn’t use the right pen in Inkscape so all my lines appeared as thick outlines. I discovered that I liked this look for the car, but not for the tree. After some edits, I was…

I had some issue with the vector lines (that I thankfully believe I now know how to fix, I just didn’t have the tools at my disposal next to the laser) that caused most of the detail to be lost. However, I hope to try cutting this again soon in a larger size to preserve…

I used 100% speed, 10% power, 100% current, and 1 pass for all vector engraves and I used 25% speed, 25% power, 100% current, and 1 pass for all vector cuts. I also tried to use very little power for my pastor engraves on my Hooty design because I did not want anything to stick…

I printed all of my designs and they came out like this! I love how they all turned out.

I ended up cutting my first and second drawings. It went pretty smoothly overall, but for some reason a few of the lines on my drawing #1 piece were engraved slower than others and were engraved deeper as a result. The stem on my leaf pendant was also cut off because I made it too…

for my first cuts I used my first three drawings with varying success. For my first piece I attempted to print my eagle line drawing. this cut was came out quite well early on with the exception of the belly feathers getting too fragile and falling off in the first prints as well as some…

Drawings #1 and 2 cut into plywood