ShopReady Draft 2D · 47 s · narrated, with captions

Text that fills itself in: a number, the date, a list

A locker tag's text holds fields in braces: {Name}, {n:3} and {date}. The drawing shows them filled; the braces show while the text is typed. Edit, Numbering and lists... sets the number now, and the drawing follows at once. A CSV file is picked and each of its headings becomes a field, so {Name} reads the first row's name; Next brings the next row and the next number. Ticked, the number goes up by itself after each run on the machine.

Before thisMake many: one tag into a grid of them from a list

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Film · 5:28

Shop: sheets, parts, labels and codes

Parts nested on the sheet by their true shape, the selected shapes packed into an offcut, a part moved by hand and the rest nested round it, materials and the parts list, a label for every piece with the sheet maps, QR codes and barcodes, numbered tags, and one tag made into many from a list.

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A QR code and a barcode, drawn as shapes

A bin tag gets two codes. Edit, A QR code or barcode... takes what the code says and shows it with the size of its squares; Draw it puts it on the drawing as closed shapes, selected, with a guide rectangle for the clear margin a scanner needs, and it is dragged onto the tag. The Kind is changed to Code 128 for a part number, which comes with its words under the bars. Both are shapes to burn, V-carve or cut.

Clip · 40 s

Make many: one tag into a grid of them from a list

One locker tag has fields in its text and a list of twelve names is read in. The tag is selected, and Make many, at the foot of the Numbering and lists window, is set to one for each row of the list, four side by side. Make them lays twelve copies out in a grid under the pattern, each with its own name and number as plain text. One undo takes them all back.