How to prepare your files for feeding into the laser program to cut

some trouble of laser cutter

Scenario 1:

If the vector has overlapped paths and it will be cut repeatedly.
Solution
In RDworks, you can use “Delete overlap” tool to delete all overlapped paths, like below.

some trouble of laser cutter

 

Scenario 2:
If you’d to make a rectangle at 30×30mm, however, it becomes 29.9×29.9mm when cut it through on material, because there’s a little bit of gap appear on cutting edge, like below.

 

some trouble of laser cutter

Solution:
In RDworks, you can use “offset polygon” tool to correct the error.
some trouble of laser cutter

some trouble of laser cutter

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