ShopReady Draft 2D · 58 s · narrated, with captions

Fifty name tags from a list, part 5 of 7: A shorter run, kept settings, where it starts

The job's foot warned of a two-hour run. Setting the Engrave layer's Fill to Group by group, so each tag's words and code are scanned together, takes it from 2 h 5 min to 1 h 50 min and clears the warning. Keep these... keeps the Engrave settings under Birch plywood 3 mm for another day. Start from is set to Where the head is now, with the job's front left corner picked on the nine dots, and the drawing marks where the head starts.

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Fifty name tags from a list: the whole project

Fifty name tags were made from one drawn tag and a spreadsheet list. The film shows drawing with typed sizes and layers, text and a QR code with fields in braces, a CSV list filling them, Make many laying out a copy for every row, the laser job with its Fill and Line layers, tabs, order, run time, kept settings and start point, the preview with its clock, and the Machine window with a pretend laser: connect, home, frame, start, pause, resume.

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Fifty name tags from a list, part 5 of 7: A shorter run, kept settings, where it starts

This is one part of a longer film

Fifty name tags from a list: the whole project

The rest of this project

Fifty name tags from a list, part 1 of 7: One tag, drawn

Fifty name tags from a list, part 2 of 7: A code, and a list of names

Fifty name tags from a list, part 3 of 7: Fifty from one

Fifty name tags from a list, part 4 of 7: The laser job

Fifty name tags from a list, part 6 of 7: The preview

Fifty name tags from a list, part 7 of 7: To the machine