What Illustrator Does
Illustrator allows you to make or design whatever you would like. Illustrator gives you many different tools to edit and design what you want to make or you could just copy and paste a image from Google and edit how you want to. You can use different colors to engrave things in a material or make it red to cut things out.
Step by Step For The Laser
Step 1- make your object in the Illustrator software.
Step 2- make sure that you if you want to engrave that your image is black and if you want to cut out your image is red and make sure your line thickness is .0001 so that it is cut out properly.
Step 3- Make sure that you press image trace and expand when making your design.
Step 4- put your design on a flash drive so that you can transfer your image to a computer connected to the laser.
Step 5- once you pick out your material you are going to measure the thickness of it and enter the thickness into the computer.
Step 6- once you have set everything up on the computer place your material in the laser in the bottom or top corner of the machine.
Step 7- enter your illustrator file into the UCP software and check that the laser is lined up with all the corners on your material.
Step 8- press the big green play button and the laser will start engraving and cutting your material.
My key chain
Step by Step for the applying a vinyl decal
Step 1- set the vinyl up in the cutter.
Step 2- get the vinyl that you cut out.
Step 3- then peel away the letters from the vinyl cut out and put a piece of transfer tape on the cut out so that you can transfer it onto your notebook.
Step 4- then once you have just the letters and the tape you use a tool to make sure that the letters will come off when you peel the tape away.
Step 5- once you have done that place your letters where you want it on your notebook then start peeling and it is helpful to peel at a diagonal
My Vinyl Decal
What I Learned
From these first two projects I have learned a basic idea of illustrator and how to use its tools. I know how to make things cut using the color red or to engrave using the color black. In illustrator their are a ton of different tools to help you get your design the exact way you want it. The vinyl cutter is pretty simple you just type in illustrator what you want your vinyl decal to say then you have to outline it and make sure that the vinyl is set up correctly in the machine. Overall it was a very good experience and I can't wait to use both of them again.