What is a Laser Cutter?

A laser cutter is a high precision machine than can be used for cutting or engraving various materials. These materials can include things such as glass, plastics, or wood. The largest risk when running a laser cutter is causing material fires so its important to have the correct settings loaded into the software before running your job. We provide the laser cutter material settings both on this page and in the software in the labs as well.

New to Laser Cutting?

No worries! We've prepared a few different resources to help get you started with Laser Cutting technology.

 

Flexible and Tabbed Box Design Tool

Sometimes you may need to make a simple tabbed box design to house electronics and while it is a relatively simple thing to build, creating the illustrator file by hand does take time. A good tool we've found for auto-generating basic versions of these types of designs is called MakerCase.

Job Control Material Settings:

The laser cutters require specific material settings to avoid causing machine failures. These settings are pre-programmed into the Makerspace computers, but we also provide the updated machine power and speed settings here for multiple material types.

Speedy 100

Speedy 360

Speedy 400