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Fast forward one month later to Instructables' new diggs at Pier 9 nearing completion and the last two weeks of my Artist in Residency quickly closing in. I also noticed that the general feel of the cured resins was somehow 'off' from the consumer plastics I was used to touching on a regular basis. After picking up a few 3d printed Instructables robots I was advised to wash my hands thoroughly. I was surprised to find that both the support material and even the final cured resins were fairly toxic.

He also walked me through the cleaning process, a necessary step where support material from the initial print must be removed with a combination of hand tools and pressure washing.

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Steve showed me gadgets made with multiple materials and moving parts, crystal clear resins, a small model ship that had broken from insufficient wall thickness, and a super duper detailed character design created by somebody in the movie business. Steve explained how the resins, packaged in what looked like giant sized "ink cartridges" could be combined to create unique material characteristics (rigid, flexible, translucent, clear). These “bat” files are particularly useful when one computer is used to connect to multiple sizes of laser cutter.About a month ago I visited the Annex (Instructables' old shop location in SF) to chat with shop guru Steve about what people had been making with the Objet Connex 500 3d printers. Each time Lasercut is run from this point onwards it will refer to the target machine. The bat file then launches the Lasercut application. When the “bat” file is run it simply copies the appropriate configuration file for the target machine and replaces the “syscfg.ini” file with it. This file contains information about the size of the machine, the maximum speed of the axis and lots of other data. Lasercut extracts laser cutter information from the “syscfg.ini” file stored next to its executable. This will load the full program as well, just close the prompts and launch the demo instead.

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If you require a different laser cutter simply run the appropriate “.bat” file from the install directory. The default Lasercut installation configures the environment for a Silvertail A0 laser cutter (the Nottinghack one). There are workarounds which allow you to prepare files while using the demonstration version (while you cannot select File -> Save, if you exit the program it will ask you to save, however you cannot open ECP files again only import them). This version of the software has limited capabilities in particular it does not allow you to save your work and it does not connect to the laser cutter (the program will crash if this is attempted). The demo version of Lasercut, "Lasercut53_Demo.exe", will run even if the softdog USB dongle is not present. You can download jobs to the laser, adjust the cutting position and start a job all from within Lasercut. This version gives you complete control over the laser cutter.

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The full version of Lasercut, "Lasercut53.exe", will only run if the softdog USB dongle is connected to the computer.

There are two versions of Lasercut located within the program path, a full version and a demonstration version. Once complete navigate to the newly created folder to start the program.

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The program will install Lasercut, the drivers for the USB dongle and the drivers for the laser cutter. Like most older programs Lasercut prefers to run from the default paths. The "Lasercut53" type is a standalone version of Lasercut which can be used in demonstration mode without the need for the softdog dongle. Install Lasercut using the default settings. Run the “Setup.exe” program from within the LaserCut 5.3 folder, this will start the installation of Lasercut 5.3 If you do not need to connect your computer to the laser directly you can ignore the drivers. In a typical install all the required drivers will be set up as part of the LaserCut Installer, the additional drivers are only provided for completeness. A custom Inkscape palette is also included which can be used to easily define layers.

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