Laser Ready Checklist

‣ Choose your material from our selection of materials

‣ One sheet per file

• Bounding Box/Artboard should correspond to your selected material sheet size

  • We can laser cut and engrave up to 900mm x 600mm. We have varying sheet sizes depending on the material type and your needs, please check your specific material in our material shop for more details.

  • If you have a request for something bigger, we try to accommodate this. Please contact us before submitting your service order.

• Please leave a 2mm border between your work and edge of sheet

• Do not use edge of material

‣ Scale is correct and file measurements are in mm

‣ Make sure your lines are colour coded correctly:

• red - cut; blue - engrave; green - score; black/grey - bounding box

‣ All Cut (Red) and Score (Green) within file are strokes/outlines with no fills

• Text will need to be converted to strokes/outlines

‣ Engrave (Blue) must be clearly display which areas are to be engraved

• You can use fills to clearly display the areas with full block engraving (Vector Engraves Only)

• In some cases, engrave can be displayed as strokes/outlines as long as it is clear which areas are being engraved (Vector Engrave Only)

• Vector Shapes to be engraved must be a closed path

  • Open paths can only be cut (red) or scored (green)

  • If these paths are open and set to Blue, these paths will ignored during file processing

• Ensure images are of the correct size and scale (Raster Engrave Only)

‣ Ungroup all objects

‣ No overlapping or double lines

‣ Width between cuts are no smaller than the thickness of material

• For Example: 6mm sheet material requires 6mm width between cut lines

How to Save Your Files

‣ Files are named: FirstnameSecondname_ThicknessMaterial_DD-MM_FileNumber

• For Example: JohnDoe_3mmPlywoodBirch_01-11_001

‣ Accepted File Types: .pdf, .ai, .dxf, .svg., .lbrn, .lbrn2

• For .lbrn, .lbrn2, and .svg, files, you will receive an upload link on the confirmation page after submitting your order

• We do also accept .dwg. However, these will need to be exported to a .pdf file type to be ready to uploaded to the laser. We can do this for you at an additional service charge.

  • This service will be costed at £2.50/per file.

• If none of these are available to you, please contact us. We are always happy to help!

‣ No larger than 10MB each

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