05 – Our First Program- RDWorks Software Tutorial (46:31)

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welcome to this session of lightblade

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learning lab. Now we’ve already tackled

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all the main tools umm but to be honest

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today we’re not going to really be using

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many of those toolsl because we’re not

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going to do any drawing here in RDWorks

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as i mentioned to you before this is not

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a CAD program this is an interface

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program and any photographs or bitmaps

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that you need to prepare you should do

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that outside this program and import

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them as bitmaps or pings or something

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like that

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today we’re going to work with vector

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files now most of my work is done in a

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CAD system where I export as dxf that’s

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just because I’ve got an engineering

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background I’m not an artist if I was an

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artist i would be working probably in

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adobe illustrator or something like that

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but this system also handles adobe

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illustrator files which affect the

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drawing files so I’ve already prepared

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some files and today i’m going to import

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them because we can’t open them because

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they’re not in this system already in

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the right format so if you want to bring

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files in from external system you always

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import them and i’m going to be

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importing this thing called beam target

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now it’s imported full-size but it’s

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not necessarily the page size if we look

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at the table there we can see we can see

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these items on the table now we can see

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from this look we’ve got two millimeter

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critic that were using for these parts

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and yet we’re using white card for these

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parts now we can’t cut those both

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together so although I’ve got them on

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the same dxf file what would have to

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happen we shall have to import the same

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dxf file twice the first time we’re

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going to import it we’re going to be

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ruthless and we’re gonna delete that

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section we don’t want the text so we’re

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going to delete that we’ve got to

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remember that it’s two millimeter

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acrylic and to be honest what that is

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that is a frame of the piece of material

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that I’m going to use to cut these items

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from now going to move this job into the

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middle of the screen but of course that

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isn’t necessarily where we’re going to

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put it on the table when we actually cut

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it this is just convenience for drawing

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and programming purposes now the bits

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that we want these bits in the middle

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here the background the outside which

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I’ve just highlighted is in rate and

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I could possibly put that onto a

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different layer and for convenience

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purposes i will do that at the moment

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normally I would just delete it because

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it’s not necessary but I want to show

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you another feature function here while

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we’re programming so I popped onto a

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blue layer at the moment and that blue

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layer I’m going to put it up here and

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we’re going to have a double clicked on

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that blue layer to open up this

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parameter window and it says is output

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yes or what no well if I want an output

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and I want this to cut then I would have

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to say yes but because this is the

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outside shape of the material that i’m

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going to be using I don’t want it to cut

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so in this particular instance I would

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answer that question

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no and now everything else down here is

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just unimportant because I’ve said I

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don’t want an output so you can hide

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certain parts of the program if you wish

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by putting them on a different layer and

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then using this function here is output

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so we’re happy with that so we say ok

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and now we’ll go to the black layer

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double click on it and it will open up

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the parameter window

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okay now this is where we really started

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programming we’ve got to decide what

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speed and feed we’re going to cut these

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parts out from now there’s two

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millimeter acrylic now I’ve got 18

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months of experience of cutting these

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materials but it is on a different

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machine with a different lens and that

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makes a big difference and i will

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explain that to you later on in the

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series so for the moment just go with me

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I think I’m probably going to have to

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use around about 20 millimeters a second

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i might be able to get away with 25 I

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can’t say because I don’t know what

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lenses in this machine so the next

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question the first question there was is

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this output

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well we’ve already seen that yes we do

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need to cut so we’ve got definitely got

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to answer that question yes

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now there’s a question here which says

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is it says if blowing yes or no

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well it’s a bit of a silly question and

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it’s a bit of a super first question in

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a way because this is blowing or if

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blowing yes or no is all to do with the

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air assist now if you remember when we

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did our introduction i said to you

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please please please do not turn your

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air assist off make sure that your air

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assistance on every time you are doing

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cutting and that’s because we don’t want

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the smoke to go up in the lens and

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disrupt the efficiency of the lens we

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have the option here to turn this off

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with a solenoid in the Machine and that

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solenoid is not in my machine and it’s

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unlikely to be in your machine either

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because I don’t think think later would

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put that function in here so instead of

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blowing read era cyst and generally

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leave the air assist on

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I would never advise you to turn it off

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now we’re going to go down here to the

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cutting processing mode i’m not going to

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go into this involved window here then

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we’ll just keep it simple and we’ve got

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several options in here we’ve got Penn

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dot cut and scan or scanning is for

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engraving and for bitmaps dotting is for

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some rather interesting cutting

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facilities and pen

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I’m honest I’ve got a clue but we should

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find out before we get down to teach you

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about that so we’re going to use cut

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because that’s what we want to do cut

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these parts power

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well I’ve used a fairly fairly high

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speed here because i’m anticipating

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using a fairly high power now i’m going

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to be using 65-percent and sixty-five

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percent now first of all when you cut

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things in general you always use the

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same max or the same mean and a max

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power there are exceptions but i’m not

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going to cover those at the moment we’ll

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keep it simple

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sixty-five percent is maximum power but

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I can hear you asking but the Machine

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goes up to a hundred percent why can’t i

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use a hundred percent you may remember

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back to the first session as well are

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highlighted you have an ammeter on the

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machine and the ammeter basically gives

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you an idea of what power you’re putting

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through your laser tube now we’ll go and

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explain a lot more about the laser tube

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in another session but at the moment

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just trust me that 65-percent is

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probably the maximum power that i can

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use and at that point in time I would

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have reached the 22 milliamp limit for

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the tube i mentioned to you before don’t

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take the default if for any reason we

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get down here and we find this through

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powers ticked on ticket we don’t need it

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so what we set on there we’ve answered a

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few simple questions and we said okay

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now you might not believe it but we’ve

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virtually programmed the job

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the only thing that we haven’t

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programmed is the order in which we want

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these things to be cut there are many

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ways of ordering things on this

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particular piece of software one of the

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ways in which you can order them as you

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come up here to this layer and you can

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swap the layers over so look I pulled

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the black up all the black layer

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underneath then there is no preferential

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treatment therefore these layers what

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will happen is the blue light will cut

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first and then the backlight will cut

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second if the black client had scan on

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it regardless of whether the blue layer

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is a cut the black layer will be cut

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first because it’s a scan layer and

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scans always take precedence over cuts

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the layer order is absolutely used if

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you’ve got scanning taking place but

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because we only get two cuts they’re

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technically the blue liar if it was a

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cutting layer would cut first

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because it’s not cutting it doesn’t

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matter i want to go to handle and we’re

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going to open handle up and I want you

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to come down here to cut optimized and

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there’s a little window here which we

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could take order of layer i mentioned

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that just now we don’t want order of

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layer we could have it so that the parts

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cut from the inside to the outside

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hey now that makes sense because we do

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want the holes cut before we on the

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outside cut only the on for a minute

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because i want to show you something

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else start point optimized doesn’t

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matter whether that’s on off this block

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handle and I cannot see question because

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I’ve got no idea what it is and then we

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get these directions which allows us to

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cut up from bottom to up left to right

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right to left different ways of

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processing job I tell you what let’s do

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bottom to jump

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so we’ve made the selection at the

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moment and I’ve done nothing to these

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parts would you like to have a preview

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of how these parts are going to be cut

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let’s do that up at the top here we’ve

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got a little television screen and if i

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click that preview screen we’ve got

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something here called a simulation know

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what i would do is i would put these

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sliders down in the first instance

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towards the bottom maybe not very far

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down the top 10 i would put that

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probably about halfway along and the

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bottom one I take it towards the start

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otherwise things will happen very

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quickly so we’re going to do a

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simulation and let’s have a look what

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this simulation does press the simulate

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button and then move your move across to

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the slider so that you can change the

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speed

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now look at the Blue Cross going down

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from the right-hand side there and it’s

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cutting the inside and now it’s doing

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the outside we could speed it up a

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little bit and it’s doing the holes on

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the inside and is doing the outside

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holes on the inside and then the outside

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so everything’s working well

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and there we go

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we’ve just proved that this job will run

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perfectly and I’ve had to do no more

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programming than that so i can close

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this down with those settings which are

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not my favorite settings but with those

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settings and you would notice that it

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started from the bottom and worked its

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way along and up and it worked from the

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inside and did the outside second on

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every one of these parts

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that’s almost as difficult as it gets to

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program these simple parts the programs

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written the only thing that we haven’t

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done now is to get it into the Machine I

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need to plug in a memory state to this

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pc which I’ve just done we need to come

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down here as i mentioned before and

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check that the device is on USB

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automatic the one thing that we don’t

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want on is something down here which

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could be on tipped pass optimized leave

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the path optimized off my advice and

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then this position here leave the

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current position on don’t choose another

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one and then we’re going to save this

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the two things that you could do now the

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first thing is if you like to use this

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file again which is possible we need to

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save it so we can save as

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now you’ll note that down here it says

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it’s an rld file now in rld file is

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something you can save and you can open

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again and again and again the file will

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be saved with all these parameters the

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cut parameters and so it’s a

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preservation of exactly all the work

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that you’ve done so i’m going to call

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this beam targets

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and now i’m going to come down here to

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the save you file button to my removable

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disk and we’ll save it as the same again

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head2 they are good and that happy sign

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there i think i might have mentioned to

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you before and Chinese that stands for

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have a nice day ok now we need to tackle

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the other item on this project we will

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import the dxf file again and this time

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we will be brutal and we would delete

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this part of the children

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and then we’ll take the top now just

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remember that this is not a correct is

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white card now before we delete the

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border I just want you to note how

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relatively tight

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the job is to the material that’s

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available i should mention that again

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when we come to set the job up on the

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machine just move this to a slightly

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more central position and I said it’s

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for no particular reason other than just

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visual appearance and convenience

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it’s got nothing to do with how we going

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to set up on the machine itself here

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we’ve got some lightweight card targets

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that we should be firing the laser beam

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at their couple of things I want you to

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note about this design first of all

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everything has got round corners on it

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on this target

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although these are ellipses for very

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good reason i will explain that later on

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they’re not round targets even though

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the mirrors around the targets are not

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round when it comes to writing the

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programs we trying to achieve burn lines

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only scorch lines on the surface of the

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material and then we’re trying to cut

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around the outside shape the outside

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shape if we look carefully right at the

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very top here you’ll see that it’s not

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complete the line does not go all the

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way around that’s purposely done so that

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these pieces stay attached to the sheet

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of paper they remain in there so that

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you can pull them off as you need them

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so how we going to achieve these two

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different power levels one for cutting

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and 14 scorching the simple way is to

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put the mounted two different layers so

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what I’m going to do is put a marquee

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and watch carefully what I’m doing with

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this marquee I’m just covering all the

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targets on line one

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and I’m not going to let the Marquis go

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you’ll notice all the targets of turned

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rate I didn’t turn the outside shapes

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read because the Marquis only covered

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part of the shape the outside shape to

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collect the shape you need to cover it

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completely

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ok so we’ve collected all that line of

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targets what I’m now going to do is to

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hold the shift key down and I’m now

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going to collect the second line of

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targets you’ll notice that they joined

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the first line of targets now still got

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my shift key held down and I’m going to

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do the same thing with the third line of

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targets

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ok so now I’ve actually highlighted

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collected whatever term you want all the

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targets now I’m going to come down to

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the bottom here and i’m going to click

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the blue layer and watch what happens

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first of all your note up here that

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we’ve created a blue layer the top

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right-hand corner so what I’m going to

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do a double click on that blue layer

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click and that will open up the cutting

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parameters when I said cutting

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parameters in this case they’re going to

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be scorching parameters

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it’s a bit of a difficult decision as to

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what speed we should run at because I

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could put 500 millimeters a second in

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there but it wouldn’t change the speed

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of the head now let me just give you a

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little explanation that might help i own

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a Ferrari i wish i did and and I live on

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a block that is about 200 meters square

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and I’d like to go racing around the

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block every time I come to a corner i

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had to put the brakes on slow right down

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and go around the corner then I could

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put my foot down likely accelerate like

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billy-o and off I go again but no sooner

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had got up to about 50 miles an hour and

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I’ve got to put the brakes on for the

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next corner so only a hundred fifty

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miles an hour

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Ferrari has no benefit to me as i’m

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racing around this very very small sharp

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corner block

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now things would be slightly better if i

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lived on a 200-meter circular block

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because at least I could get up to speed

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and I wouldn’t have to keep slowing down

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every time I got to a corner so that’s

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the basic analogy that I want you to

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remember when you’re doing laser cutting

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every time you get to a sharp corner

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the machine has to slow down stop and

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change direction if you put radius

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corners on your design wherever you can

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and it’s not always practical then the

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laser will release it will move smoothly

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around the corner without slowing down

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as much so that’s a very simple design

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principle which I’d like you to

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understand from the start and hence the

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reason why I’ve got round corners on all

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these targets

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I don’t want the beam to slow down and

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burn through in places i want the speed

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to be kept as high as I possibly can

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running it 500 millimeters a second is a

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waste of effort because it just is never

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going to get to 500 millimeters a second

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so I’m choosing a number of 200 and I

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think that will be fast enough to 22 not

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to burn through well the first question

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is always is output well yes we want

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some output and so we’ve set the speed

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now we go into these if blowing will

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ignore that because that should be set

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to yes processing mode

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well we’ve got two choices we can either

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scan or cut we don’t want to scan that

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because i will show you how a port scan

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is doing that particular job in later

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episodes this is what we need to do we

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need to have it on a cut

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bear in mind we’re trying to only

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scratched the surface we need to have

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the power as low as we can possibly get

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it now I don’t know

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on this particular 60 watt tube what the

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minimum power is I can use in 0% because

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if 0% is programmed in the later won’t

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fire at all the later probably won’t

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fire until about maybe a

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nine ten percent somewhere in that sort

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of region so i’m going to set the power

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down to about ten percent and we’ll see

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whether or not that’s enough we can

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always edit these values on the machine

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and we’ll go through that if we need to

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so i’m going to set my max and min power

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to ten percent later through mode is one

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ticked and that’s it

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we’ve only got two parameters to really

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set speed and power

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ok now we’ve got to work out how we’re

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going to cut the outside shape and to do

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that we’re gonna have to bring up double

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click click the back liar again is

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output this question is really asking do

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you want me to include this item when i

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write a program the answer is yes we do

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want in the program speed

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I think I’ll go for something like about

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80 millimeters a second and i’m going to

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probably use a power of maybe 20

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possibly 25-percent there’s not it’s not

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an exact science so what we got to do

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now is make sure we get these things in

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the right order

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we want to make sure that we scorch the

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target’s first and then week at the

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outside shapes second now I’m going to

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take you back up here to the handles and

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we going to go to this cut optimized

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now we’re going to have to adopt a

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slightly different strategy this time

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there are different ways in which we

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could tackle this problem how we’re

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going to cut these but let’s stay with

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the cut optimized handle facilities at

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the moment and this time we’re going to

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use the order property we can take this

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inside the outside because we’ve got two

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different powers that we are using if we

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use the layer order we could ask for all

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the blue layer to be done first and then

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for the black layer to be cut afterwards

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and that’s the sensible thing to do it

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doesn’t really matter how we have this

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set with we run top to bottom left to

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right up to down it really just doesn’t

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matter and then again the start position

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to start point optimized doesn’t really

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matter either but we’ll leave it ticked

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we’ve decided to go for order of layer

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ok and now we’ve got to look up here at

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the black and the blue layer now i

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mentioned to you before that the order

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of these layers is the order in which

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they will be cut

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especially now that we’ve chosen the

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layer order as the option cutting option

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so we don’t want the outside cut first

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we want the target to be scorched first

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so we need to click on the black layer

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and drag down below the blue layer so we

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promote the blue layer to the top of the

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list so that it will cut first and we

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can check what’s happening by going up

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here to the little preview screen

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now my first question is why don’t we

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have the targets on here

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well let’s go back and have a look let’s

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check the blue layer is output no yes it

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is

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ok

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now we fix the problem let’s go and have

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a look

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and there we go so you can see how

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useful this preview feature is and we do

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the simulation and know what we’ve got

23:46

it running we can start to speed up to

23:47

see where it’s going watch the Blue

23:49

Cross going down to the bottom left-hand

23:50

corner and there we go look at is

23:53

creating all across this week speed it

23:55

up now quite considerably and is doing

23:59

all the targets and now we’re slow it

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down again and if we watch again for the

24:05

bottom right-hand corner it’s busy

24:07

cutting the targets out so we’ll just

24:10

want the simulation up again speed it

24:12

all up

24:19

there we go hundred percent success and

24:22

now all we’ve got to do is first of all

24:24

we’ve got to save this to a file which

24:26

i’m not going to do because you’ve

24:27

already seen me do that and then we’ve

24:29

got to save it to a you file again I’m

24:32

not going to demonstrate that because

24:33

you see me doing it so we’ll finish up

24:35

at the machine to see if we can start

24:38

cutting these items so here’s the piece

24:41

of material parts from now they probably

24:45

just about enough material to the job so

24:47

i don’t really want to experiment with

24:49

that I have a piece of material here at

24:53

the same time which i’ve used for

24:54

another purpose and into the machine

24:58

here i have put already a 40-millimeter

25:02

test square which i’m going to use to

25:05

get checked the cutting parameters

25:07

before we start doing the real job

25:10

ok so we’ve got our 40 millimeter square

25:13

and in-memory already so I’ll just press

25:17

enter and you’ll note here that the

25:22

moment I’ve got the speed set to 20

25:24

millimeters a second 65-percent power

25:27

now that will be my first attempt

25:29

now i’m going to drag the hay very

25:32

slightly towards zero not that 40

25:36

millimeter square is going to worry me

25:38

we’re now going to show you the startup

25:40

procedure using the autofocus which

25:42

should automatically set the focus of

25:43

whatever lens I’ve got in here to the

25:46

right position

25:47

first of all we need to press the suzuki

25:49

and that gives us all these options down

25:52

here now right at the bottom of the list

25:55

we’ve got auto focus now sorry before we start

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what I’ve got is something there called

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as it move at the top you would

26:04

naturally think that if you want the

26:05

table to go up and down you would press

26:07

the up key to send it up and the down

26:10

key to send it down

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no it doesn’t work like that

26:13

because as you can see the up key in the

26:15

down key rotating around the menu

26:19

let’s get back to the move to get the

26:21

table to drop down you’ll need to press

26:24

the left hand arrow key and if we just

26:27

watch with the left hand arrow key

26:29

buying what

26:32

that’s a little bit strange they seem to

26:33

be the wrong way around intuitively I

26:35

would have thought the left is a minus

26:37

key and the right there is a plus key

26:39

doesn’t do that or an interesting point

26:41

so we’re doing the table down and we can

26:45

drive it up and down manually now we’re

26:47

well clear of the the nozzle plenty room

26:50

underneath there

26:51

so now what we’re going to do is use

26:52

these down arrow keys to get to write

26:55

the bottom of the list there there’s

26:56

something called autofocus ok i’m now

26:59

going to press the enter button and

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we’ll see your to focus working touches

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the switch stops

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backs off

27:11

that it carries forward again

27:20

manufacturer up a little bit more

27:23

and that’s the correct autofocus

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position the autofocus switch is

27:29

actually about six millimeters above the

27:31

surface so we’re ready to run my 40

27:33

millimeter test square now i can either

27:36

drive to hate around or in this

27:37

particular instance because I’ve got

27:39

because I’ve got the cover open i can

27:41

actually set my material where I wanted

27:43

to be no remember and I keep stressing

27:46

this point that we’re working from this

27:48

top left-hand corner here and we should

27:51

draw a 40 mile square out here so just

27:55

to prove the point more than anything

27:56

else what I’ll do I’ll put my material

27:58

on that corner there right now I could

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have driven the mature i could have

28:04

driven the hate to that corner but I’ve

28:06

moved the material to that corner so let

28:09

me know press something on the machine

28:11

called the frame button and what it will

28:13

do it will just tell me where the hate

28:15

is going to move

28:18

yeah well just went away because i

28:22

forgot to set the origin point so let me

28:25

drive it back again to get that point

28:28

just there

28:31

and now I’ll press the origin button and

28:34

do it properly now we’ll press frame and

28:39

there we go there’s my 40 millimeter

28:40

square the sort of things i do

28:44

instinctively have got to come to you

28:46

slowly so the first thing you need to

28:49

just think about is how i got my air

28:51

assist on

28:52

yes is everything clear yes whatever

28:56

what am I missing

28:58

well there is one big thing that are

29:00

missing and that’s the extract system

29:07

but he got very protective

29:17

that did I cut through

29:19

yes I did

29:22

this frame is here this aluminium frame

29:25

is reasonable point i can actually use

29:29

that almost like a reference square in

29:31

the corner there and to make sure that

29:34

it is square because the whole table can

29:37

move around

29:38

push it to that back corner over there

29:39

and then we should know that the frame

29:41

is square with the machine basically and

29:43

then we can slide this piece of material

29:45

into that corner there then we can drive

29:48

the head

29:50

towards the corner from the cherry

29:52

so I’ve got my memory stick plugged into

29:54

the Machine and now i’m going to press

29:56

the fire button

29:59

and that will enable me to get to the

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second menu there that’s our press this

30:05

button and we get across to the unis are

30:08

compressed the enter button

30:11

and I get you just menu and I need to

30:14

read you this to start with

30:17

and on here i should find big dog and

30:21

card talk later the two files i need to

30:24

transfer into this machine so we’ll do

30:27

that while we’re here we’re going to

30:28

head tog and move within move across

30:31

popular memory

30:35

copy successful enter

30:39

card dog

30:43

copy the memory

30:47

well being

30:50

eh

30:52

escape

30:56

okay and there’s my car targets in

30:58

machine memory

31:00

so now i’m going to go back to file its

31:03

escape back to file

31:06

and now we’re going to find

31:09

on the memory

31:12

hey talk and there is in time

31:17

and we’re ready to go

31:21

so we can know press the Go button shop

31:24

wasting materi

31:54

let’s see how well let’s cut its cut

31:58

well I should be able to just lift this

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off

32:01

well that is superb

32:04

now my fear with this honeycomb paid is

32:09

that it would mark the back of these

32:11

products let me just have a look across

32:14

this age here and we’ll see whether or

32:17

not my fears are in any way

32:22

founded well vary slightly but i don’t

32:28

think anything there’s certainly no

32:30

marks on the back of the product there

32:32

and if we look along the agent I catch

32:36

in the light right let’s just see if we

32:39

can catch in the light right yeah maybe

32:41

like that you probably just can see some

32:43

little marks on the age of the material

32:46

there where you’ve got little

32:47

reflections off the honeycomb age but if

32:51

that’s as bad as it gets

32:53

then I should be very pleased what my

32:55

concern was that it would be along the

32:57

back of the product here this particular

32:59

material is two millimeter extruded

33:02

acrylic now extruded a critic has got

33:04

slightly different cutting properties to

33:08

cast acrylic cast acrylic tends to

33:12

produce a really lovely clean eh with no

33:16

birds

33:17

this has got a protective film on it and

33:19

you still having a bit of trouble

33:20

getting the protective film off but

33:23

protective film is the thing that I

33:24

think is stopping it from being damaged

33:27

and by reflections off of this surface

33:30

and it’s done a pretty good job actually

33:33

I can’t see any i can see when I hold it

33:37

up to the light and catch the light on it

33:39

I can’t see any marks on there at all

33:43

from the honeycomb one one or two just

33:48

round here there are definite marks

33:51

around the age but that’s nothing

33:54

absolutely nothing

33:56

there’s a little sharp age all the way

33:57

around the bottom each there which

33:59

happens with too much technical birth

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which happens with extruded acrylic and

34:05

you tend not to get that with cast

34:07

acrylic

34:07

the next part of the job involves a for

34:09

white card and that’s the website that i

34:13

got it from its 300 gram craft card i

34:17

bought this card for manufacturing and

34:21

christmas cards and birthday cards and

34:23

to be honest it’s not very good for

34:24

doing that sort of work to lovely card a

34:27

lovely skip card but it’s got so much

34:29

china clay in it that it actually smokes

34:31

on the surface and it produces not very

34:34

good so i use this for all sorts of

34:36

tests work and particularly what we’re

34:38

going to use it for now which is to make

34:41

these targets so gain we can tap it up

34:43

in the corner there so we’ve got a nice

34:45

reference to work with no you don’t need

34:48

to see me loading the program again

34:49

because you’ve already seen I’ve got my

34:51

programming and road now and technically

34:53

I’m sitting right in the corner of the

34:56

shape here but first this is not two

34:58

millimeter thick material this is only

35:00

probably about half a millimeter thick

35:02

so I really want to go away and do the

35:06

autofocus again so we’ll drive ahead

35:12

adding to the work area and then we’ll

35:15

use the sig Dukey and I’ll carry out

35:18

your can focus procedure

35:22

ok

35:24

I’ve got my origin still sit in the

35:27

corner there so technically I don’t need

35:29

to go back and reset my origin so what

35:31

do I will know just do spraying test and

35:35

the first thing that should happen is

35:36

the hatred drive towards the corner to

35:39

find the origin and then it will run

35:41

around and we’ve got to check that it

35:43

doesn’t run off with the paper anywhere

35:47

little bit tight there Thank You room

35:49

there

35:50

little bit of room there so really we

35:52

can do and is tight along the back there

35:55

so what we do is drive to hate forward

35:57

slightly and in slightly too much about

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there

36:02

depress the origin button there

36:05

and then we do afraid again to check

36:07

again

36:09

that’s good that’s good

36:13

that looks very tight Medicare know so

36:17

we need to come back just a shade

36:19

like that maybe one more

36:24

right there is good origin

36:26

I’m happy with that so we’re just gonna

36:28

go for it

36:29

we’ll see what happens

36:36

you had too much outlook my tobe flowing

36:40

out

36:42

that’s not good at it

36:46

press the pause button press escape

36:48

button

36:51

disaster really let’s go and have a look

36:53

at how we can edit the program

36:54

administrator

36:56

right well we need to press the escape

36:58

button to start with I think because

37:00

we’re part way through the program let’s

37:02

just check

37:10

enter again

37:13

and one more time

37:15

and all of a sudden we get the editing

37:17

menu down here for the blue layer if you

37:22

remember the blue layer was the target

37:24

itself

37:27

so we need to edit the blue layer

37:32

you come down here to the speed and I

37:34

don’t think the speed is the issue

37:36

to be honest I think it’s really the

37:38

power now I don’t know what minimum

37:40

powers i said to you I can actually

37:42

operate this machine on let’s take it

37:45

down to as low as ordered this me is the

37:49

reason

37:52

mistake on my part somewhere 65-percent

37:56

no wonder it cut

37:58

but while we’re here we will edit his

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power down to

38:05

we’ll take it down to ten percent and

38:08

we’ll see what happens and then we press

38:10

the musée du Bac Ninh game and come

38:12

down here and we correct my obvious

38:14

mistake

38:26

ten percent

38:29

setup success in time

38:32

that makes your face

38:40

parking here

38:42

he had pc that certainties

38:52

that tells me i’m using a sony of

38:55

operations between possesses

38:59

high-frequency impacting baby

39:03

now I will explain to you in another

39:05

session what that’s all about

39:09

but it makes a lot of noise as you can

39:12

hear not bad at all

39:16

and this is why would never want to use

39:17

this metric table 2 doing card work if

39:22

we look down here you’ll see clearly

39:24

where the theme has passed over one of

39:28

these and it’s giving reflections on the

39:31

back

39:32

they’re all over the price these

39:33

reflections

39:36

for high-quality card that would be

39:39

totally unacceptable

39:41

you can probably see on the frontier

39:42

what I mean about the smoky effect this

39:45

is definitely got a brown change to it

39:47

where it’s blown out and across the

39:51

surface that’s high china clay content

39:53

in here which is blowing up if we get

39:56

the different sort of paper we won’t

39:58

have this problem and in fact what i

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40:00

would do is immediately show you the

40:02

difference between different types of

40:04

paper here we have a paper that i

40:06

absolutely loved use the card work as

40:09

you can see it’s a watercolor paper and

40:12

it comes in a thick pad of a hand roots

40:18

and it’s just got a lovely sort of a

40:20

texture on the surface now I would just

40:24

take a piece of already used

40:33

I think you can probably see that this

40:35

is a much cleaner cut there’s virtually

40:37

no drowning at all around this cut here

40:44

but this would get even better this cut

40:47

if i was to use this high-impact

40:49

engraving phase which I’ve got to

40:52

investigate to find out where it’s

40:54

limited I like to run card cutting right

40:58

at the top limit of that particular

40:59

operating phase for the tube you heard

41:03

operating here at ten percent well it

41:05

may well be that i can get it up to

41:06

maybe thirteen fourteen percent and it

41:10

will still exist in which case i can use

41:12

it for cutting as well

41:16

ok well the time has come to start doing

41:18

something with these pieces now the

41:20

thing that we got to do with these is to

41:22

assemble them and we’ve actually got to

41:24

glue them together is a blue them

41:26

together we should need a special

41:29

adhesive for bonding creek now I’ve got

41:33

the material here from a company called

41:35

bond right and it is actually petg will

41:41

cement now technically I should have a

41:45

creek world cement but I know that

41:47

petg world’s men will do the job

41:51

acrylic cement won’t won’t meet etg but

41:55

it will work the other way around for

41:57

some strange chemical reason now this

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stuff will evaporate very very quickly

42:02

so you need to make sure that you always

42:04

keep the lid on they don’t want to give

42:07

you a little bubble what I do is I just

42:10

squeeze the bottle very slowly release

42:13

it so that time suck some of the fluid

42:16

which is just like water

42:18

I think probably see I’ve only got a

42:19

very small amount in the bottom there so

42:21

we put the needle on the top there like

42:23

that and now we’re going to begin the

42:26

assembly to this four pieces to this one

42:28

and four pieces to that one

42:30

now it is actually pretty obvious how

42:32

these go together so soon as that but

42:36

now what we’ve got to do is to bond it

42:38

together the way we do that is we will

42:42

try and keep my fingers away from the

42:44

actual little 10 joints will lay this in

42:48

a horizontal plane and then I don’t know

42:51

whether we can get close enough to see

42:52

it but when i took this up very gently

42:55

the fluid that’s in here which is very

42:58

watery will just flow out and it will

43:01

actually buy a capillary action flow

43:04

into the joint there is as simple as

43:08

that it produces a really neat little

43:10

joint now going to hold that for

43:11

something like about 10 seconds 15

43:14

seconds just to get it to bond and dry

43:16

off again I’m gonna run this joe gently

43:19

turn it just turn it off horizontal and

43:22

then when the bit when it runs just go

43:24

straight

43:25

after about 15 or 20 seconds that will

43:29

have fixed now i can run along this

43:33

joint as well there and they’re now I

43:42

don’t with you could say in this line

43:44

but here’s the marks that i was talking

43:46

about on the back edge there on the h

43:48

those marks haven’t affected surface

43:50

material but they have actually just

43:52

impacted along the edge there that’s the

43:54

reflections off of the Calico section

43:57

it’s not a major issue it’s just

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interesting that I can see them

44:03

well there’s our first target holder

44:05

made and will pop out target on their

44:10

the target locates here so its reach

44:14

repeatedly sitting in the same position

44:17

so that we can fire a laser beam at it

44:19

but I’m afraid you’re gonna have to be

44:21

patient to see that because we’ve got a

44:23

few more sessions before we get to doing

44:25

anything with this this next item is an

44:29

interesting item as well now i put these

44:31

two pieces together like this and i

44:35

produced up basically what looks like a

44:37

pocket here now you would normally make

44:40

that one thick piece of material and you

44:43

would Miller pocket it or you could make

44:45

this a piece of six millimeter say a

44:48

critical five-millimeter critic and you

44:49

could try engraving a sort of a pocket

44:54

in there but it wouldn’t be all that

44:56

accurate

44:57

this is a much more accurate way of

44:59

making that pocket with two pieces but

45:02

then you have the problem of how do I

45:03

stick it together

45:05

well we have got this stuff remember but

45:09

I’m not gonna be using that for main

45:11

location what we’re using we using these

45:15

bases now these pieces if you look

45:17

carefully

45:18

we’ve got tons on the end which are

45:22

twice the thickness of the material

45:23

gonna pop those through those slots it

45:28

all locates locks together nicely along

45:31

message

45:32

captain like that run along message here

45:35

like this as quickly as that and to be

45:39

honest it’s nicely held together if I

45:41

can manipulate my hand over far enough

45:43

that i might be able to rely on his work

45:50

which will save me waiting too many

45:53

seconds now the only other thing that

45:55

we’ve got to do is this piece here is a

45:57

little but only a little bit on the

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46:00

flimsy side so what I’m going to do I’m

46:02

going to run a bead of glue along that

46:04

joint there

46:05

well that’s the end of that first

46:07

programming and production project now

46:11

these items will be used at a future

46:13

date and we’ve got a couple more that we

46:16

going to manufacture that will be used

46:18

in conjunction with these during one

46:21

long session for checking the

46:23

performance of the machine so that we

46:25

benchmarked the machine