I gave up autocad long long time ago. But the only thing that still interests me is the 3D. I have nearly forgotten all the commands. Surprisingly, I jumped up to youtube finding hot to design laser cut, but on the back of my head was the idea of a JAPANESE model and VOILA. This is inspired me so much I have no words. Been sitting idle with so much creative ideas. I am going to do this now. will jump to the software and all the details. Thank you so much brother. Really loved the video and all the details.
I use and have used: fusion, inventor, solidwords, pro E and auto cad. For my day jobs. I think inventor, solid words and inventor will be good for this. This is awesome. Im going to try this thanks!
Great video colegue! I also use Rhino in my laser cutting workflow because mainly 3 reasons: First, it let me interact between architects, designers and engineers. (read their standard files). Second, it has features that other CAD software doesn't have. And it let me work more easily and "freely" between 2D and 3D.
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Great job. I always start my design process in SolidWorks. Set up the right material thickness from the beginning, but makes the holes slightly oversized. Then I use Deepnest for nesting and then Lightburn communicates with the laser. Thanks for charing.
I've literally just designed a lantern for laser cutting from steel. Ryno looks very similar to SketchUp which is what I use. You've done a great job and love your machine too. Well done.
I have not yet gone to the laser cutting, but are investigating this as second step from 3d printing, my workflow uses freeCAD, Blender, Inkscape and Gimp for personal production, But at work I'm in autodesk autocad and revit mostly with 3D. Thanks for greit inspiring videos with build and design around laser cutters. Best regards from Sweden. PS so far this has been best series I gone throught deciding if to invest in laser cutter build
This was a fascinating video to watch because I'm wanting to head in the same direction. I like the emphasis that having skill in a software package can be more important than which package. I liked seeing the overview of the whole process along with explanation for why things were done, or not done. Recently I've been developing a similar workflow (but my ability is much lower than what is shown in the video) using Blender > Inkscape > CorelDraw X5 > Eplilog Helix Laser. In my case I've made a few boxes from 3mm plywood for Wingspan (boardgame) to hold after market tokens (as a New Zealander it was a delight to find an American company supplying NZ birds). One of the rabbit holes I'm following is using Geometry Nodes (Blender's parametric workflow) to help with arbitrary dimension changes and to have a toggle between 2d art for export and 3d art for visualisation. Thank you for making this video.
Really beautiful creation Rob -- I know I was at least one person who asked about your design process last video and I appreciate some of the insights like the beam "kerf" you design for and the way you account for tolerances in the model. I'm an electrical engineer and don't generally use 3d design software in my day job but since I've gotten into the 3D stuff, I've taught myself Fusion 360 (to answer your question) and am looking forward to taking baby steps toward a design like this. In case you're keeping tabs since your last video, my 9mm belt from Powge is still stuck in customs so I bought some from a private seller in a 3d printer community I'm involved with...it should be on its way across the states. In the mean time I designed a table and cabinets for the Y-400 and got started on that -- I can't wait to build the laser. Cheers.
I usually design everything in Illustrator but it gets really hard when 3d parts aren't at squared angles, when I want to do something more advanced I use a Catia license I have from my university but the parametric constraints are very time consuming. Awesome job you did! beautiful end result too.
Enjoyable vid on your process..without the lerning struggles parts, lol. Alibre, lightburn, gimp, inkscape, Blender and z brush help my novice laser and 3d model designs
I am thoroughly impressed with what you did there, and the cheap/free files you included in your website. Once I saw that, I went back to youtube so I didn’t forget to subscribe. Cheers
That is an amazing lamp and very good cad design as well. Thanks for sharing!! I need to step up my CAD game for sure... it's a limitation for these types of projects.
Really a very beautiful job... I'm a Product Designer programmer... I've been designing my CNC Router for industrial use for some time.... but that anyone can buy and assemble.... it's getting cool... .then I also want to manufacture my own laser cutter.... I want to set up a company for courses and use of machines that produce drawings in general, either 2D or 3D that is just a printed material for a physical drawing. Congratulations on your work, I'll follow you around here....
Great design - I've attempted to learn CAD a couple times and am still struggling with terminology and processes, hope to "get there" sooner than later!
I'm not a big CAD guy but I do use MoI3D for CAD stuff. For regular 3D I use the obvious choice LightWave 3D. For sculpting it's the other obvious choice, 3D-Coat.
And thank you for the comment on the offset and material thickness :) To your question, I end up using AutoCAD from a 2D view as I'm not proficient enough with the 3D portion. So a lot of mental gymnastics. Export that into SVG then K40 Whisperer.
no problem, I hope it made sense! oh cool, I've never used autoCAD, I've only used Illustrator for 2D vectors, are you considering learning a 3D CAD software?
@@FurtherFabrication It made perfect sense and actually got me thinking why had I not done sooner. As for software, I've been debating if I'll start with AutoCAD 3D or explore Sketchup Layout given I'm more familiar with modelling there. Very nice lantern, btw!
That's the one things that holds me back in Fusion atm compared to Rhino, I haven't spent enough time really hammering in a proper workflow to get the same kind of speed
I learned on Sketchup, but years ago switched to Fusion 360, and still use the education license (I am a teacher, and occasionally teach some design. Mostly I justify it by creating models I use in my classroom). I use blender to touch up models and add more organic features, but haven't climbed the learning curve to model from scratch in blender.
In fusion, a 'sketch' is the set of curves on a plane, and these can be exported as DXF files, which is what I export and bring into the laser cutting software. No need to explode the 3d model, just have to make sure you get all the files.
Solidworks is my cad software of choice but I also dabble in fusion 360. Really cool to see the artistic side of your workflow. I'm currently building a laser that takes most of its inspiration from your y-1200 design, thanks for going through the effort to make that documentation and put it up for sale
Glad to hear you found it helpful! Nice, do you find there's a lot of differences between a Solidworks vs Fusion360 workflow? In my 'limited' experience they seem quite similar in their sketch driven modelling approach
@@FurtherFabrication They are deceivingly similar. Building a part is almost identical if you don't delve into mechanical analysis but the biggest difference is working with assemblies of more than one part. Solidworks uses mates instead of joints which you can have many of between the same two parts. Typically each one only limits a single degree of freedom so joining two parts rigidly could take up to 6 mates. I'm not completely convinced solidworks does it better but that's what I'm most fluent in so I like it. Solidworks also doesn't use a timeline, each new feature e.g. chamfer becomes a drop down item on the object list on the left as long as you don't bump into either of those things you might make a part without even realizing which software you're using
That's such a good point about mates vs joints. Given the price difference it's unlikely I'll get into Solidworks, so it's great to get that insight from you
Awesome video! I really enjoyed your process and work! Personally I'm a designer/drafter and have been using Autodesk Inventor for the last 6 years and really enjoy it. It's interesting to see the differences though.
I love Shapr3D but for someone who 3d prints as a hobby, paying about 300$ isn't something i can do often lol. So I'm starting to use fusion 360. I don't like it as much, the camera annoys the life out of me but it works
Interesting video. But I especially liked your series on how to build a laser cutter. Thats a project I want to tackle too in the future. And to answer your question. When I want a quick and dirty prototype for 3D-Printing I use Tinkercad, for more detailed and refined models Fusion 360 and to visualize bigger stuff, like how I want my furniture arranged when I move later next month, I use SketchUp. Plus I have dabbled in AutoCad and Siemens NX about ten years ago.
Awesome job! I’m also an industrial designer and spend my days in Rhino so really appreciate your workflow... I have a China Blue so was surprised to see you were exporting to rdworks too... End result was beautiful and didn’t have generic that laser cut look.
Awesome overview of your work. 13 years game industry veteran here so I use Maya and Zbrush. Maya not super accurate like a CAD software, but I can work in MM so it does the job lol. Hope to learn Fusion 360 one of these days though since I have my own rapid prototyping business...too lazy sometimes lol.
I started laser cutting about a week ago. I design in 2D using Adobe illustrator... but I can really see how 3D would help for more complex models. I’m still learning at the moment but I’m being strict about not downloading any designs or copying anything outright and just trying to design myself learning principles from videos like yours. I made a clamshell travel boardgame this week that I’m really pleased with. Plan is to eventually start selling original work.
I'd definitely be interested in a video on making instructions. As for CAD programs I'm currently learning OpenSCAD but might also try some more traditional programs.
I love videos like this! I learn a lot seeing someone's workflow with the highlights and points of interest. CAD of choice is typically F360. Sketchup is great for cabinets and mostly right-angle type things. And some SolidWorks for the day job. An architecture friend uses Rhino and I'd been wanting to check it out. Seems like it's maybe got a strength in creating more organic type shapes. Have you found this? What do you feel does better than F360?
Glad you found it interesting! Fusion's a great choice, and I think if it had been around before I'd learnt Rhino I might have settled on that instead. Off the top of my head the I would say Rhino has more flexibility in modelling and I prefer the Layouts function but Fusion's got Rhino beat on other things as well (like filleting) so I couldn't say one is better than the other
There's a nice (free) add-in for Fusion 360 called "DXF for Laser". Select a face of a body, run DXF for Laser, put in your kerf, and the add-in adjusts all outlines by 1/2 the kerf (outwards for external edges, inwards for holes) and writes a DXF file ready for import. The adjustment is only made to the dxf, the model is untouched.
Nice to see people interested in community not just the money. Thank you for your time and effort.
You're welcome mate!
I gave up autocad long long time ago. But the only thing that still interests me is the 3D. I have nearly forgotten all the commands.
Surprisingly, I jumped up to youtube finding hot to design laser cut, but on the back of my head was the idea of a JAPANESE model and VOILA. This is inspired me so much I have no words. Been sitting idle with so much creative ideas. I am going to do this now. will jump to the software and all the details. Thank you so much brother. Really loved the video and all the details.
You really get that Weta Workshop vibes, high technicality and craftsmanship, you're talented it's beautiful
That was wild - and what a beautiful end result! Thanks for sharing your process and for making the design files available!
Wow I was mesmerized watching you design. Thank You, its beautiful.
I use and have used: fusion, inventor, solidwords, pro E and auto cad. For my day jobs. I think inventor, solid words and inventor will be good for this. This is awesome. Im going to try this thanks!
Great video colegue! I also use Rhino in my laser cutting workflow because mainly 3 reasons: First, it let me interact between architects, designers and engineers. (read their standard files). Second, it has features that other CAD software doesn't have. And it let me work more easily and "freely" between 2D and 3D.
Great job.
I always start my design process in SolidWorks. Set up the right material thickness from the beginning, but makes the holes slightly oversized. Then I use Deepnest for nesting and then Lightburn communicates with the laser. Thanks for charing.
Thank you so much for putting the files online for free!
I've literally just designed a lantern for laser cutting from steel. Ryno looks very similar to SketchUp which is what I use. You've done a great job and love your machine too. Well done.
Really appreciate you bro. I'm starting a new laser cutting business, and I need all the I help I can get. Your videos are a blessing
Only just discovered your channel, so good. My new binge watch. Might be my new favorite UA-cam channel
Who would give this video a thumbs down. Just doesn't make any sense. Amazing vid. Thanks for sharing!!!
I think one of the coolest parts of your channel is how you provide the files for free. I think I might make this one.
I have not yet gone to the laser cutting, but are investigating this as second step from 3d printing, my workflow uses freeCAD, Blender, Inkscape and Gimp for personal production, But at work I'm in autodesk autocad and revit mostly with 3D. Thanks for greit inspiring videos with build and design around laser cutters. Best regards from Sweden. PS so far this has been best series I gone throught deciding if to invest in laser cutter build
That was amazing, never seen anything made from scratch before thankyou
This was a fascinating video to watch because I'm wanting to head in the same direction. I like the emphasis that having skill in a software package can be more important than which package. I liked seeing the overview of the whole process along with explanation for why things were done, or not done.
Recently I've been developing a similar workflow (but my ability is much lower than what is shown in the video) using Blender > Inkscape > CorelDraw X5 > Eplilog Helix Laser. In my case I've made a few boxes from 3mm plywood for Wingspan (boardgame) to hold after market tokens (as a New Zealander it was a delight to find an American company supplying NZ birds). One of the rabbit holes I'm following is using Geometry Nodes (Blender's parametric workflow) to help with arbitrary dimension changes and to have a toggle between 2d art for export and 3d art for visualisation.
Thank you for making this video.
Enjoyed watching your workflow...I used Intergraph MicroStation for many years...Thanks for the cut file...
You really deserve a huge like for that beautiful work.
Really beautiful creation Rob -- I know I was at least one person who asked about your design process last video and I appreciate some of the insights like the beam "kerf" you design for and the way you account for tolerances in the model. I'm an electrical engineer and don't generally use 3d design software in my day job but since I've gotten into the 3D stuff, I've taught myself Fusion 360 (to answer your question) and am looking forward to taking baby steps toward a design like this. In case you're keeping tabs since your last video, my 9mm belt from Powge is still stuck in customs so I bought some from a private seller in a 3d printer community I'm involved with...it should be on its way across the states. In the mean time I designed a table and cabinets for the Y-400 and got started on that -- I can't wait to build the laser. Cheers.
thanks Keith, glad to hear your getting some progress on the belt and the Y400 build! Fusion360 is a pretty great all rounder, good choice
You are incredible. It's really nice see what a brilliant and creative brain can do with a habilit person.
I usually design everything in Illustrator but it gets really hard when 3d parts aren't at squared angles, when I want to do something more advanced I use a Catia license I have from my university but the parametric constraints are very time consuming.
Awesome job you did! beautiful end result too.
This man is really awesome in explaining ....thank you so much brother....
Enjoyable vid on your process..without the lerning struggles parts, lol. Alibre, lightburn, gimp, inkscape, Blender and z brush help my novice laser and 3d model designs
That turned out great. I've been modeling in SketchUp for five years and am now learning Blender.
Thanks, I've only just started Blendering too! with that new UI it's much easier to get a grip on now
Great job Rob. I'll give this one a try when I eventually finish my laser cutter build. From the plans I purchased from you of course 👍
Beautiful design and work.
Wow, really happy that I found this channel.
Awesome job Rob, now I have a lot idea to use my CAD skill to do business other than drafting only. Thanks !!
I am thoroughly impressed with what you did there, and the cheap/free files you included in your website. Once I saw that, I went back to youtube so I didn’t forget to subscribe. Cheers
Very impressive. Looks beautiful. I’m going to give it a try. Thank you for putting that out there for people to try.
That is an amazing lamp and very good cad design as well. Thanks for sharing!! I need to step up my CAD game for sure... it's a limitation for these types of projects.
Really a very beautiful job... I'm a Product Designer programmer... I've been designing my CNC Router for industrial use for some time.... but that anyone can buy and assemble.... it's getting cool... .then I also want to manufacture my own laser cutter.... I want to set up a company for courses and use of machines that produce drawings in general, either 2D or 3D that is just a printed material for a physical drawing. Congratulations on your work, I'll follow you around here....
Great design - I've attempted to learn CAD a couple times and am still struggling with terminology and processes, hope to "get there" sooner than later!
It's totally worth when you get there, don't give up!
Your a beast bro I want to be like you when I grow up
Love to see the way you do things. Alibre has been my goto for a long time now. Thanks for the vids man
I'm not a big CAD guy but I do use MoI3D for CAD stuff. For regular 3D I use the obvious choice LightWave 3D. For sculpting it's the other obvious choice, 3D-Coat.
A wonderful design. Thank you for sharing. Can't wait to have a look at your website
This is beautiful. You are very talented. Thanks for the file. I’m waiting for my first laser cutter to come in.
Thanks for share the project. Petrópolis/Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
Awesome! I can see that you are so passionate in doing your piece. All the best to you!
....Just beautifull - And I too use rhino but for 3D Prints
Thanks Rob for another very interesting tutorial and motivation video. I have to start firing some thing with my K40 laser..
And thank you for the comment on the offset and material thickness :)
To your question, I end up using AutoCAD from a 2D view as I'm not proficient enough with the 3D portion. So a lot of mental gymnastics. Export that into SVG then K40 Whisperer.
no problem, I hope it made sense! oh cool, I've never used autoCAD, I've only used Illustrator for 2D vectors, are you considering learning a 3D CAD software?
@@FurtherFabrication It made perfect sense and actually got me thinking why had I not done sooner.
As for software, I've been debating if I'll start with AutoCAD 3D or explore Sketchup Layout given I'm more familiar with modelling there.
Very nice lantern, btw!
Wow. That's absolutely beautiful.
I'm all new to this. Thank you so much for your videos!!!
Amazing video. I wish I could learn how to do the tabs and slots like you do.
Very nice vid! I’m a Fusion360 person but I loved seeing Rhino in action. Looked very fluid.
That's the one things that holds me back in Fusion atm compared to Rhino, I haven't spent enough time really hammering in a proper workflow to get the same kind of speed
That lantern looks awesome.
Thank you for the insight into you design process and the pattern.
Im just looking... with open mouth and just looking.
A feel it😅
I learned on Sketchup, but years ago switched to Fusion 360, and still use the education license (I am a teacher, and occasionally teach some design. Mostly I justify it by creating models I use in my classroom). I use blender to touch up models and add more organic features, but haven't climbed the learning curve to model from scratch in blender.
In fusion, a 'sketch' is the set of curves on a plane, and these can be exported as DXF files, which is what I export and bring into the laser cutting software. No need to explode the 3d model, just have to make sure you get all the files.
Awesome, thanks for the tip!
Solidworks is my cad software of choice but I also dabble in fusion 360. Really cool to see the artistic side of your workflow. I'm currently building a laser that takes most of its inspiration from your y-1200 design, thanks for going through the effort to make that documentation and put it up for sale
Glad to hear you found it helpful!
Nice, do you find there's a lot of differences between a Solidworks vs Fusion360 workflow? In my 'limited' experience they seem quite similar in their sketch driven modelling approach
@@FurtherFabrication They are deceivingly similar. Building a part is almost identical if you don't delve into mechanical analysis but the biggest difference is working with assemblies of more than one part. Solidworks uses mates instead of joints which you can have many of between the same two parts. Typically each one only limits a single degree of freedom so joining two parts rigidly could take up to 6 mates. I'm not completely convinced solidworks does it better but that's what I'm most fluent in so I like it. Solidworks also doesn't use a timeline, each new feature e.g. chamfer becomes a drop down item on the object list on the left
as long as you don't bump into either of those things you might make a part without even realizing which software you're using
That's such a good point about mates vs joints. Given the price difference it's unlikely I'll get into Solidworks, so it's great to get that insight from you
Fusion360 is my go to software
Such a cool design! Thanks for the walkthrough of your workflow.
My pleasure!
Awesome video! I really enjoyed your process and work! Personally I'm a designer/drafter and have been using Autodesk Inventor for the last 6 years and really enjoy it. It's interesting to see the differences though.
Well explained vid regarding workflow.
Nice videos. Just got myself an engraver and whilst proficient in photoshop/illustrator, i've not used CAD before. I've got a lot of learning to do.
Inkscape and laser cutter.
I love Shapr3D but for someone who 3d prints as a hobby, paying about 300$ isn't something i can do often lol.
So I'm starting to use fusion 360. I don't like it as much, the camera annoys the life out of me but it works
Interesting video. But I especially liked your series on how to build a laser cutter. Thats a project I want to tackle too in the future. And to answer your question. When I want a quick and dirty prototype for 3D-Printing I use Tinkercad, for more detailed and refined models Fusion 360 and to visualize bigger stuff, like how I want my furniture arranged when I move later next month, I use SketchUp. Plus I have dabbled in AutoCad and Siemens NX about ten years ago.
Glad you enjoyed the series, I had a lot of fun building it!
Nice, always useful to be able to use different programs depending on the situation!
nice. A lot of job for a cool design. really nice to share it for free !
Thanks. no problem!
Yeah, I’m never gonna be able to do this. Lol Thank you for the video.
Great video. Really appreciate the free files to try ourselves.
Awesome job! I’m also an industrial designer and spend my days in Rhino so really appreciate your workflow...
I have a China Blue so was surprised to see you were exporting to rdworks too...
End result was beautiful and didn’t have generic that laser cut look.
Thanks
Always success for you .
Your kindness to share this file free
So gonna have this in my house.
Beautiful design. Many nice extra touches. Fusion 360 dabbler here.
"pretending to draw" hehe love your design bro!! love it!!
Nice work with this. For my CAD software I have access through work both AutoCAD and Inventor from AutoDesk and enjoy using both.
Awesome overview of your work. 13 years game industry veteran here so I use Maya and Zbrush. Maya not super accurate like a CAD software, but I can work in MM so it does the job lol. Hope to learn Fusion 360 one of these days though since I have my own rapid prototyping business...too lazy sometimes lol.
Hi
thank you very much for free project its great help god blessed you good luck for your business, I wish you big success in your life
Nice concept. I use Coreldraw mostly but also use Autodesk at times. I export to a dxf file and use lightburn for generating the cut paths
very cool design and approach, love it!
I started laser cutting about a week ago.
I design in 2D using Adobe illustrator... but I can really see how 3D would help for more complex models.
I’m still learning at the moment but I’m being strict about not downloading any designs or copying anything outright and just trying to design myself learning principles from videos like yours.
I made a clamshell travel boardgame this week that I’m really pleased with.
Plan is to eventually start selling original work.
Awesome, welcome to the Laser party!
This is fantastic. Well done!
4:10 to 4:45 is literally magic to me.
Awesome stuff Rob so interesting to see your workflow
Thanks Zoe
Don't have a laser yet but do have a cnc wondering how this would work out with it. May give it a try soon. Thanks for the free designs. Subbed
Nice video.I Learned a lot and thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍🏽
So good I found you. Will definitely buy from you in future.
Thank you for the video! Loved the process.
Only learning as part of a art and design practice unit digital fabrication. There is a laser machine in the college I attend
Hmm, I usually use curve offset on the final parts to accomodate for kerf. Also work on Rhino.
Nice, yeah I'll do that as well if I know it needs to be super specific
I've been taught solidworks and am used to that, however now that I'm no longer at University I may learn fusion due to cost
I used solidworks at uni as well, however I haven't used it since. Fusion seems to be a pretty great all rounder - especially for the price
did you see the deal titian of CNC has 20$ for a year sub for solidworks 2021
@@joesmith2465 no!? Where do I find this?
@@simonholden8523 they just posted a video yesterday I think
@@joesmith2465 I heard solidworks is going to a 99 a year hobby license.
Really nice design you make look easy but I’m so lost on it kudos to showing us your work
Gorgeous. Thanks a lot!
Fantastic design!! Thank you for sharing!! Cheers!
5:50 can you please make video about how to design or make a assembly instruction manual in rhino or in other program that will be really helpful
one of the best videos out there!!!
Wow! Beautiful stuff. Thanks!
I'd definitely be interested in a video on making instructions.
As for CAD programs I'm currently learning OpenSCAD but might also try some more traditional programs.
I don't like google either, they show me what they want and make me think its the whole world.
I love videos like this! I learn a lot seeing someone's workflow with the highlights and points of interest.
CAD of choice is typically F360. Sketchup is great for cabinets and mostly right-angle type things. And some SolidWorks for the day job. An architecture friend uses Rhino and I'd been wanting to check it out. Seems like it's maybe got a strength in creating more organic type shapes. Have you found this? What do you feel does better than F360?
Glad you found it interesting! Fusion's a great choice, and I think if it had been around before I'd learnt Rhino I might have settled on that instead.
Off the top of my head the I would say Rhino has more flexibility in modelling and I prefer the Layouts function but Fusion's got Rhino beat on other things as well (like filleting) so I couldn't say one is better than the other
There's a nice (free) add-in for Fusion 360 called "DXF for Laser". Select a face of a body, run DXF for Laser, put in your kerf, and the add-in adjusts all outlines by 1/2 the kerf (outwards for external edges, inwards for holes) and writes a DXF file ready for import. The adjustment is only made to the dxf, the model is untouched.
oh cool I'll have to check it out!
I personally use OpenScad for objects with lots of repeating features and FreeCad for more free hand modeling.
oh I've heard of them but never looked in too deeply, I'll have to give them a try!
Wow! Another UA-camr that uses Rhino! Awesome.
You should definitely do a tutorial on how you made your finished instructions for this!
Awesome video and awesome lamp.
I just finished this build, it looks really nice (my first real build with the laser cutter). What did you coat the wood with at the end?
Looks amazing but, ya I'm completely new to laser engraver and I'm going to have to hard pass making my own stuff atm
I would love to see you do the komiko design in the Raven of the Inner Palace for a shoji lamp.