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

The Machine window: a pretend laser is added by hand (to try it with nothing plugged in) and given homing switches. One tag is selected and sent as a test piece with Only what is selected. Connect, Home out of the alarm a homing machine wakes in, Frame round the tag's box, Start (asked about once), Pause, Resume, and the program runs to its end. The film closes on the sheet of fifty tags.

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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

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

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 6 of 7: The preview