For this Mini unit, you will first be designing a set of letters to be cut out of 12 mm thick plywood. The maximum dimensions of your piece will be a maximum of 200 mm x 200 mm Your material size can be larger, at about 300 x 300 mm. The bottom of your letter should be flat. It will be glued onto a small backboard to help it stand.

In order to get everyone's piece done expediently, you'll cut everything with a 1/4 inch (6 mm) downcut spiral bit. We'll learn to make profile cuts, pocket cuts, and to drill holes. We'll also learn to add tabs to our piece, and generate tool paths. Design can be done in Illustrator, or V-carve Pro. V Carve will do the generation of tool paths. ShopBot software will be used to cut the tool paths.

Let's also try to limit total cut time to 10 minutes!

1. Link to vid about drawing within VCarve Pro software

1. B. Starting new file in VCarve and importing an Illustrator.ai file.

2. Vid for 1st tool path. Pocket Cut.

3. 2nd Tool Path. Inner Profile Cut

4. 3rd and 4th Tool Paths. Drilling and Outer Profile Cut.

5. Exporting Toolpaths to send to CNC Router

Numbers for Vcarve

Feed speed = 40 mm / s.

material thickness = 13.5 mm

material size = 300 x 300 mm

artwork placement. 2 cm from bottom and 2 cm from left.

cut through depth (profile cut) = 15 mm

stepover % = 50 %

type of bit = 1/4-inch downcut, 6 mm diameter

pass depth = 2 mm

tab width = 10 mm, thickness = 3 mm, use about 4 tabs

Total Cut time < 10 minutes

# of tool paths you should have is probably 1 to 4.

Other Pro-Tips for Vcarve.

• Mr. Dingrando needs one file only from you put into this folder. It should be the VCarve file (.crv). Don't worry about exporting your tool paths. Mr Dingrando will do that.
• Order of tool paths matters. Outer profile cut must be last.
• Combine separate vectors with the "vector weld" tool.
• Each Tool path needs a name describing what it is cutting!

F block: 22 students . You will be making these 6 signs on the ShopBot CNC Router.

(R) OBOTICS = 7 Yousuf, Marvin, Lucas, Nicole, Ben, Juju, Val

GEO = 3 . Anya, Nichelle, Chloe

PE = 2 . Leila, Somya

ART = 3 . Saki, Saumya, Sophia

MATH = 4 . Sasha, Xavier, Ignacio, Alex

BIO = 3 . Dante, Ralph, Joaquin

TOTAL = 22

A block: 16 Students

I = Alden

B = Michael

P-Aryan

H- Cameron

Y- Roonie

S- Ayush

I - Rhia

C- Miguel

S-Daniyaal

H- IsaacI

I-Abigail

S- Takeru

T- Sanya

O - Ella

R- Koseiro

Y- Yuki