From the course: Laser Cutting: Design for Fabrication
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Troubleshooting your files
From the course: Laser Cutting: Design for Fabrication
Troubleshooting your files
- [Instructor] Apart from mechanical checks, you'll sometimes need to troubleshoot your design files. Troubleshooting comes down to having a consistent series of steps or workflow that you follow to create the files and double checking that list. Systematically reviewing files will help aid in quality control and part consistency. Most machines are configured to RGB. Check to see if that's a color format your laser can read. Some machines will convert all non-approved colors into grayscale. Rasters and attempt to engrave them rather than cut. You may need multiple pages to complete your project. Double check the size of your parts or as you expect first. I've created a one-by-one-inch block to check for that. If your parts are extremely small, it's most likely because your document was set to millimeters when your machine was expecting inches. You can either scale up your document or change your units and re-export. If your parts are too large, it's because the machine was expecting…
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