![]() ![]() ![]() Instructions to other digital fabrication tools may be less obvious in applications like Desktop publishing (are you printing in black and white or color? are you printing on regular or photo paper?) or laser cutting (what feed rate and power setting do you want to use for that material?), but you are still making decisions on how you want you want to “print” the design. With CNC subtractive machines like ShopBot, you include instructions on how you want the parts cut out or engraved, what kind of router bit you are using, and what speed (feed rate) you want to the router to move through the material. Once you have the Design, you use Computer-Aided Machining or Milling (CAM) software to get it ready for “printing”Ĭomputer-Aided-Machining (CAM) is where you give the computer instructions on how you want to “print” the Design. Much of Prototyping and Design Thinking takes place at this point in the Design Process.Common Core links to X, Y and Z axes, graphing, plotting.Where you want to place it to machine it.The cost of the software also ranges from free to not so very free. To get the Design in to the Computer for machining or “Printing”, one would start with Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) software.Ĭomputer-Aided-Design (CAD) software is available in all ranges of complexity, from 2D graphic software like Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw, to engineering software to create parts, assemblies and render 3D images on the screen such as SketchUp, 123D, SolidWorks or Inventor. ![]() While it is a simple enough project, it contains a wealth of lesson plans. At the bottom of the sign is a strip of LEDs, their changing colors programmed with an Arduino. Bill Young brought in this sign, made from acrylic that has been V-Carved, plywood that has been pocketed and cut out, and a peg that was 3D printed. ![]()
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