What is Illustrator?
Illustrator is a program that allows you to draw or create anything you can think of. It could be an art project, a Logo for your company or making a key chain to put into a lazer. That is what I had to use illustrator for. So, what I had to do was make a out line of a Key chain in illustrator, put it into the lazer, and have the lazer cut out my key chain on acrylic.
This was the first step of the process. I had a make my base if the key chain using illustrator. This first step was pretty easy and didn't take much time.
The next step was to make he outlines of key chain red and to put my image into my key chain. The reason I had to turn my outlines into red was because when the lazer sees red, it cuts right through the red lines. I choose this picture because it is the logo of my favorite soccer team Liverpool.
The next step I had to do was put my illustrator file in the lazer and make sure everything was going to cut and imprint well. This step was very complicated and pretty hard. for me it took a couple of tries to print mine, so by the 3rd time I was an expert. Now all I have to do is print my Key chain.
f This is what the screen looks like while you are printing the key chain. Now all I have to do is watch my key chain print and then I'm done.
This is my acrylic right before the lazer starts to cut and engrave it. I was really excited because I put a lot of time into it and I was hoping it would turn out good.
This is my key chain during the cutting and engraving process.
Finally, after about 2 minutes of cutting the key chain was finally done and all I had to do was take it out of the lazer.
This was my final product. I was really happy on how it turned out and when I get my car keys I can add the key chain onto my keys.
Summary
This project taught me how to use illustrator to make pictures and/or key chains that I can put through the lazer to cut out. The next thing I have to do is the Vinyl project. This is cutting out Vinyl to put as a decal on my inventor notebook.