1. The major steps to go from illustrator to CNC/laser cut in my opinion are that you need to make sure you did everything correct and to your liking in illustrator, If you don't then you will end up with something that turns out wrong or just not what you were wanting.

2. I learned that painting and masking isn't a very hard thing to do, but it is a very hard thing to do perfectly. For example when I did my painting and masking I first painted my wood gold and applied the mask, I did this because I wanted the lower part to be black and the raised/outline to be gold. After I cut my wood on the CNC and painted it I removed the masking to find out that a lot of the black paint had leaked onto the gold part of the wood. This took a lot of hand painting and masking to fix after.

3. I think the hardest thing for me was figuring out the size of the wood and the pockets. After doing the pockets for the first time and writing the process down It made a lot more sense and I can do it without mistake now. Figuring out the size of the wood in fusion so it matches up perfectly with your actual wood is still pretty difficult for me.

4. The biggest thing I learned is that you need to pay attention the first time and take really good notes, so you don't have to remember everything. Having something to look back on to make sure you are following steps correctly is extremely important.

5. The first thing I learned was the adobe illustrator, I learned how to take a pictue off the internet or wherever and turn it into just lines that can be used to lazer cut and/or CNC cut. 

The Fusion process is quite a lot more complex than the previous process for the picture frame, now we needed to create our object and make the cut process for it. First, we chose the X, Y plane to begin working with because that would be a flat plane. Using the X, Y plane we inserted our DXF which is just lines. Then we gave our lines a thickness, defined how big our stock is, and defined the pockets and pocket depth. The machining process wasn't very difficult it was just something new. To sum it all up we chose what we wanted cut and defined the depth it would cut. After that we simulated it to make sure everythign looked correct and then we posted the process and sent it to the makerspace computer.