I made this in Illustrator.This gig is simple, the first smaller square pushes the laser to the set position of the larger square - which I use to cut the cardboard. The important aspect of the data layout is that you will be creating a digital jig to match a real world jig inside the laser cutter, the first image is of the digital gig.
I used smaller data sets to perfect the process before I move on to something larger.The first section was a hand. The images are of sections of data that I used for this experiment. For this I have used a hand and a head to work out this process.Below is a link to Netfabb basic which is well suited for this task and free. Below are some links to download free data.You may even want to model your own files, below is a link to Sketchup for modeling.To prepare the data for slicing I used Netfabb to cut the data to smaller sections. In this case I have scanned two figures, using the artec scanning system.You may use scan data, download or model data for this project. For all artwork that using some sort of CNC process you need to start with data.
This tutorial tracks my process of using various software programs and a laser etching machine, glass acid etch and glue with a base plate of LEDs to make the glass sculpture.The sheets of 6mm float glass has been hand cut and laser etched twice (both sides) to preserve the resolution of the data.
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