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

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

Preview... shows the whole job as the program's own picture: the engraving on bare wood, the cuts as lines, the moves between as dashes. Play runs it in twenty seconds; the clock under the picture is dragged to the cutting; a scroll zooms in on single tags and a double-click shows everything again. Nothing is sent to a machine.

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Whole project · 7:06

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

Chapter · 1:47

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

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 5 of 7: A shorter run, kept settings, where it starts

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