2/10 Class Blog DF6-Colette Macarios

Today in class we learned many settings and how to figure out Adobe Illustrator. In class our assignment was to create a few shapes and add slots so that when we used the laser cutter they would fit together properly.
 
On the board Ms. Sutter comprehensively wrote down all of the different dimensions so that the laser cutter settings were set the right way. For example, the stroke of the line was changed to .001 so that the cutting would be quicker because if you were to set it higher it would take a much longer time for the laser to cut through. We also inserted the dimensions of the material board we are using into our Adobe settings so it matches up to the laser cutter. We also needed to make sure that the slots setting were set to 15mm and 4.8 mm so that the slots would fit together when they were inserted together after being printed.
 
This picture is what our stroke was set to in Adobe.
Another interesting thing is that we learned how to use the tools in Adobe to create shapes and figure out how to create slots. We used the mouse/grab tool, the shapes/rectangle tool, and we also used the colour tool so that we could change the setting to no fill when we were writing our names on the inside of the shapes.


By the end of class we had something like this complete so that we had a few shapes and we had slots. One of the tricks I learned was that we didn't really need to make a gap between the slot and the shape because the laser cutter would just cut right through it anyways which was really interesting for me.