Organizer wall board
How I built the board
After theses rough sketches I started to work with Illustrator. Firts of all I decided out of which material I would like to cut out the board. I chose MDF with a thickness of 3 mm. To know the thickness of the material is absolutly necessary, because from the start on the sections have to be constructed to fit perfectly into each other. They are connected over a dovetailing system. So, one part has to fit into a hole or a gap. How, you see here:
When the laser cuts the material, it burns a bit of the material. That means the laser remove material by cutting it. The part is called kerf. Because of the kerf it is necessary to make the part, which sticks in the gap, 0,2 mm thicker.
For cutting material the line-width has to be 0,001 pt. The depth of engraving depends on the gray tone. Black is deeper then grey. But it is also possible to work with colours intead of black and white.
Working on the lasercutting machine
I cut out and engraved it with the following settings:
for cutting: vector
speed: 10
power. 100
frequency:25
for engraving: raster
speed: 100
power: 70
frequency: 50
with no special raster
In the second step I chose the settings in the print options: placement in the top-left corner and x: 0, y: 0
I was relieved when I saw all the parts fit perfectly into each other, but the parts stick not by itselfes.
For that I had to made holes in the front side of the pen and sheet case and plug the sides into the holes, like I did it with the back side and the sides of both cases.
The result
