How do I create a design for laser cutting?

The possibilities with laser cutting are endless, but this sometimes makes finding a starting point difficult. In addition, it can be confusing to take all the drawing rules into account. To help you with this, we have put together some tips for you.

Templates 

Templates are sample projects of which we provide the drawings. You can download the drawings and modify them to fit your own project. We hope this will give you a push to start working on your design.

Tutorials 

Watch the tutorials for in-dept documentation on creating a drawing.

Here you can find the following tutorials:

• How do I make an engraving?

• Thread tapping

• Laser cutting with Adobe Illustrator

• Laser cutting with SketchUp Pro

• Laser cutting with Vectorworks

• Laser cutting with Inkscape

• Laser Cutting with Solidworks

• Laser Cutting with Onshape

• Inserting tabs in laser drawing

• Making a Systainer inlay

• Laser cut sheet

• Fill in engravings with ink

• Text engraving

• Making a paint stencil

Making a box 

Want to make a box? You can easily generate one online using one of these two free tools. Enter your dimensions and the site will create a ready-made cutting drawing for you.

• MakerCase

• Boxes.py (enter 0.2 mm for burn)

I want to get started right away. How do I do that? 

Start with an idea. First think about what you want to make and then work it out in a vector drawing. You create a vector drawing in one of the following programs Illustrator, Autocad, Rhinoceros, Inkscape, Solidworks, Onshape, SketchUp, Vectorworks. Use the correct line colors and layer names (read the drawing rules). Export your drawing as .dxf, .dwg, .ai or .pdf. Now you have a design that you can order.