spider in web
- Author:
- Lenore Horner
If you are doing this to be cut on the laser engraver in the minilab,
- the white spaces will be cut out; leaving the black lines behind.
- keep the lines thick b/c the thickness of the laser beam comes entirely from the black lines.
- take a screen shot when you like your design
- import screenshot into Inkscape
- with image selected, Path -> Trace bitmap
- Brightness steps; 2; OK
- Extensions -> Lasercut Path -> Open in VisiCut
- put your piece of wood in the engraver
- in Visicut, (zoom as necessary) resize and move to an appropriate location on screen to match where you want to cut from your piece of wood
- Mapping -> Map by single property -> map by color
- click to enable the lightest gray only and leave it set to cut
- Laser Settings -> Power = 100; Speed = 15
- Connect computer to laser engraver and power up (ask if you aren't 100% sure how this goes)
- print (cmd-P)
- follow instructions on screen (with lid open if you need to check placement but not cut yet; lid closed to actually cut)