Psychographic Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 2 hours ago, Dave Van said: A laser cutter can create the livestock van shown. I have considered doing it myself. A few notes. Artwork - if you can't create the art yourself or know someone that could cost good money, Cutting cost - laser cutting is about $1 a minute or more commercially. Just a estimate each side would cost about $60 plus materials. It is a great project and perfect for a laser cutter. here are sone laser projects of mine. Dave, I offered to help with the file for Doc, what files can your machine read? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Van Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 49 minutes ago, Psychographic said: Dave, I offered to help with the file for Doc, what files can your machine read? Most laser cutters take input as a vector files. My Hermeies machine uses CorelDraw as input.....but it varies by brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychographic Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 There are a lot of different file types that can be vector files. I can export a variety of file extensions, can you read an eps file? That seems to be the most universal file I've found for most machines that follow a vector path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfan Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 I really misread the title here. I thought you were talking about somebody cutting parts out of sheet rock. That would be a chore! Last weekend my wife went to Jo-Ann's(?) fabric store and I looked at all the Cricut and other types of cutters. I also found out they take Hobby Lobby coupons so now I wonder if that would apply to one of these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted March 26, 2018 Share Posted March 26, 2018 On 3/21/2018 at 2:33 PM, Psychographic said: There are a lot of different file types that can be vector files. I can export a variety of file extensions, can you read an eps file? That seems to be the most universal file I've found for most machines that follow a vector path. Corel Draw uses .CDR or .CMX as a native file format, but it can export in many formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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