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laser cutting

Discussion List

  • Custom Feature Collection: 456D Make

    -Link to features up front- There are probably a few among the users of this forum who are CAD veterans who might remember a fun little suite by Autodesk called 123D that had a powerhouse of an fabrication tool in 123D Make. It could take an object as an input and turn it into slices of stacked cardboard or paper templates…

  • Workflow for laser cutting manufacturing?

    So I'm asking this question to see if I can improve my work flow for laser cutting manufacturing. This question is for those who work with laser cutting, waterjet cutting, or any manufacturing process where you need to organize a story board of DXF files. Currently my process is to export any part I need as a DXF file.…

  • How to use Onshape drawing to export to Inkscape to ultimately laser-cut parts?

    Hi, I am trying to use onshape to make the drawings (since it's easier) so I can then laser-cute parts. I have inkscape to make the drawings into a PDF file, but I right-click on the drawing, export it as .dxf file, then when I try loading it to inkscape, it doesn't appear. Can someone please help me on this or suggest…

  • Laser-cutting procedure.

    I wanted to confirm the steps followed to laser cut certain parts of our 3D model. This is my model: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/c49211bcdccd031979ea9840/w/0e4e0b299b14c18c38854332/e/b3a1e88b469e1f82b9eabf3f. Now, I want to laser cut the walls of the blue base below. As you can see, there is a slanting portion too. I…

  • How to 3D print a model?

    I would like to know the general steps. For example, if I have made a box with a cavity, do I need to identify each face of the box individually or just converting the .stl files to the gcode will do all the work itself?

  • Extruding Text from a sketch to be sent to Laser cut

    Hello everyone, I recently used the text function in a sketch for an Extrude-Cut and when I sent it to the engraving/laser shop, they responded that the text in the DXF was comprised of many small lines versus smooth curves. Obviously this is not preferred. Neither is drawing the letters individually and going about it in…

  • An automated way of exporting part contours and pockets into 2D vector with different layers?

    Hi, I've been using onshape for few months now and It is a great software. I am trying to improve my workflow for routing and cutting 2d shapes in my cnc and laser cutter. For the moment I am forced to create manually the 2d views for each part, export them and edit the vector drawing to split the vectors in different…