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Laying out your materials for laser cutting

Laying out your materials for laser cutting - Rhino Tutorial

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Laying out your materials for laser cutting

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- [Instructor] Now that we've done all the hard work of designing our puzzle pieces for construction, we can finally lay out and rearrange that information for the laser cutter. This is where the organization of your materials into different layers comes in handy. Each material type will be a different laser cut file that we send to our machine. To correctly format this information, we're going to use a command called make 2D to change our closed poly surfaces into 2D line work that our laser cutter can understand. Before we use that command though, we have to lay out our geometry so it's flat to one construction plane. So to get started, I'm just going to select my paper layer and lock everything else, okay? So I'm going to get out perspective and just select everything that's unlocked, which is my paper layer. And I'm going to copy this information. So the reason that I'm copying this versus just pulling it away from…

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