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Submitting drawings for laser cutting

General

• All pieces will be cut from flat sheets of 3mm plywood.
• Pending completion of the automated submission system, email your SVG files to me (Ted Burke) for cutting.
• Inkscape laser cutting cheat sheet

Requirements

• All drawings submitted for laser cutting must be Inkscape SVG files.
• Drawings should contain no elements other than thin black lines where the laser will cut.
• Maximum page size for submitted drawings is 600 x 300 mm, because this is the maximum sized sheets our laser cutter can accommodate.

Suggestions

1. Press Shift+Ctrl+D to open “Document Properties”. Set “Display units” to “mm”. Under “Page size”, in the “custom size” panel, set width to 600mm and height to 300mm. Personally, I also disable the page border shadow and set the page border colour to green so that I don’t mix it up with the lines of the drawing. Then close Document Properties.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+P to open Inkscape’s “Preferences” dialog. In the “Tools” section (which should be visible when the dialog opens) select “Geometric bounding box”. Then close Preferences.

Useful files

• Standard RoboSumo wheel - If you want to fit something onto the shaft of one of the yellow motors, you might find it useful to copy-paste the centre hole from our standard laser cut wheel.