Most co2 laser cutters work very much like your everyday inkjet printer.
How to use a laser cutter with illustrator.
You must transform the text into an outline by converting the text into anchor points and.
When uploading your file on our website.
Here are a few.
Let s start by opening the program and creating a new document.
Avoid sharp angles and details smaller objects.
View in outlines toggle ctrl y this mimics how the laser cutter will view and process your drawing.
Illustrator is a powerful program with a sometimes overwhelming number of tools.
In section output make sure that rgb has been selected as the color space.
Drag in images you d like to etch engrave or vector files you d like to cut out.
The laser cutter comes with specific drivers which convert an image from a computer into a format that the laser cutter can read.
Again using material thickness as a minimum size for details would be a good rule of thumb.
Invert the inside and the contour so you only have the outline left.
Just like coreldraw adobe illustrator also communicates with the laser via the printing dialog.
This tutorial explains how to set up your documents in illustrator to use with a laser cutter so that you can mark engrave and cut your own designs on a ran.
Details and small features should never be smaller than the laser beam width 008 010.
Open adobe illustrator create a 24 x 12 artboard.
Laser cutting with illustrator.
Clipping masks are an appearance tool specific to illustrator.
If you are designing something in illustrator on your own computer to print later it doesn t matter whether you re using mac of pc but we only have a pc driver to print to the epilog lasers.
Prepare texts and embedding parts 1.
You can do this by setting up a few useful tools in illustrator.
To release clipping masks select all vector strokes and fills select object clipping mask release you can then either then trace or redraw them.
Open the program and create a new document.
Make sure to set the units to inches.
Any cutouts smaller than material thickness will not be accurate and may not be possible to cut.
Click on print and the adobe illustrator print window opens.
When working with laser cutters it is important to know the difference between vector images and raster images.
