Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Kerf

Laser will eat up your material by 0.1 mm each direction, 0.2 mm in total.

project2kerf

 

Therefore if you want to make two “tight fit” parts something like this,

project2kerf01

 

Your Illustrator profile should be this:

project2kerf02 

 

If you were naïve enough to draw something like this,

project2kerf03

 

What you would get is:

project2kerf04

 

Be careful. Do some simple math before submit your profile. It will save you.