How to 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 into account all the drawing rules. To help you with this, we have put together a number of tips for you.

Templates 

Templates are example projects for which we make the drawings available. You can download and adjust the drawings to make them suitable for your own project. We hope this will give you a push to start your design.

Tutorials 

View the tutorials for in-dept documentation on how to create a drawing.

Here you can find the following tutorials:

• How to 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

• Adding tabs in laser drawing

• Create Systainer inlay

• Laser cut sheet

• Fill in engravings with ink

• Engrave text

• Create paint stencil / spray stencil

Create box 

Do you want to make a box? You can easily generate this 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 into a vector drawing. You can create a vector drawing in one of the following programs: Illustrator, Autocad, Rhinoceros, Inkscape, Solidworks, Onshape, SketchUp, Vectorworks. Use the correct linecolors and layer names (read the drawing lines). Export your drawing as .dxf, .dwg, .ai or .pdf. Now you have a design you can order.