Knowing how to create outlines in Illustrator is a lesson in working with strokes. And the great thing about using strokes is that they can be used for a lot more than just creating outlines. They can be used to make all kind of borders, patterns and dotted lines. What’s more, when ...
How to Make a Personalized Jigsaw Puzzle: This Instructable shows you how to make a personalized laser cut jigsaw puzzle using Ponoko. If you've never worked with a laser-cutter or have only used a vector art package once or twice before, then this guide
How to Build a Jet Engine!: I have wanted to build a functioning, jet turbine engine for quite a long time. To me, there's something awesome about the way in which so many different aspects of a jet engine come together to make a functioning unit, that i
If you don’t know what a step chart looks like, it looks like the picture below. Step charts are a specialized form of line charts that use only vertical and horizontal lines to connect the data points. These charts are used when the data is not continuous in nature but characterized by...
We ported rich, interactive POSIX apps, such as Gimp and Inkscape, to a spartan host platform. We describe this effort in sufficient detail to support reproducibility. 1 Introduction Numerous academic [5, 13, 15, 17, 21, 24, 27–30, 32] and deployed systems [1–3, 25] have started ...
Now it is necessary to adjust the lens to focus the laser beam. To make the task easier I recommend that you draw a line, approximately 4-5 cm long, using Inkscape. Convert these lines into a G-code and load it into the Repetier-Host program. ...
You can disable ‘Snap to visible gird lines only’ if you want to work with both of the grid alternatively and after disabling this option make invisible that grid on which you don’t want to work. You can repeat it with other gird. ...
I've done this much so far, and just to make sure, I created a 4K picture with 300ppi: I don't know what are those cyan lines TBH... first time I see them, but also I believe first time I open a project and select the premade...
When the laser cuts into your chosen material, it cuts in lines. Lines can be combined to create shapes. A key feature of vector files is that they contain lines and shapes, and that the lines and shapes are perfectly scale-able – they remain smooth at any resolution. If you draw a ...
then I stretched the belt to be tight enough and with another zip tie I caught both ends of the belt. Now I can just remove the previous zip tie and cut off the excess belt. As mentioned earlier, when securing the belt on the other side, we must make sure that the two sliding bloc...