What is Illustrator? Illustrator is a app which lets you create pictures made up of pixels or vectors images. You can then print off these images with the laser like we did with the vinyl cutting and the laser for our key chains.
Laser Key Chain
Key Chain after
- Open Illustrator
- Design Key chain
- File
- Open: Choose Key Chain
- Select VLS6.60
- Setup
- Choose Plastic under Material Tab
- Acrylic
- Extruded Acrylic
- Press OK
- Open up UCP
- Turn on laser and exhaust
- Put Material in Laser
- Use focus tool and relocation tool to adjust placement of key chain
- Finally, then press the green play button
Vinyl Cutting
- Open illustrator- Write name
- Print Vinyl- cut out section with name
- Peel 'background' vinyl
- Using the tools take out extra vinyl not needed
- Put masking tape on top of vinyl and press with tool
- Peel off masking tape with vinyl on it and apply to notebook
What I learned
I learned that you could make decals and key chains with anything you could think of. Your favorite things like maybe favorite food, person, rapper, movie, show, etc. I choose to do my favorite rapper Lil Uzi Vert and I got to print that out on a key chain and get to have it on my lanyard which I think is so cool. I also learned that technology has advanced because the laser is programmed to cut the image you have perfectly and it wont mess up at all.