![]() I have no personal experience of it but it's worth a look. ![]() There is also Onshape which is cloud based and freee up to a fairly generous file size. It's driven by words rather than by drawing on the screen. Just might but it can be downloaded and tried first. I might be able to run it on Linux too via wine as it will even run on Vista. Cubify looks promising - not too bad an expense for yet another toy. STL files that your printers software can use. If you wish for certain features of the drawing not to be cut out such as a line or circle, right click on the line and click on "visibility" this will turn off the visibility of the line and make it disappear.Fusion 360 should do it for free or Cubify Design about £120 which is the current version of what I use will produce. ![]() Click "OK" in the "edge properties" dialogue box and will see that your drawing now has all red lines. 001 and the "color" is set to red as shown in the picture. In this box you will ensure that the "line weight" is set to. In the 2nd picture you see the "edge properties" dialogue box appears. Then you will right click on one of the drawings lines and select "properties." In the 1st picture we will click and drag to highlight the entire drawing. This will end up giving you a part with incorrect dimensions. If you use a thicker line, the cutter will go back and forth along that line to cut the thickness/area of the line. This essentially makes a line that has no area, meaning the laser cutter will read this as a vector and cut a single straight line for all of the lines. Most laser cutters and water cutters read red lines as cut lines. ![]() In this step you will prepare your drawing for laser cutting by changing the line weight (line thickness) and color. ![]()
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