Introduction

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After seeing alot of cool laser cut projects on the internet I felt like I needed one.

There was some cheep chinese laser cutters out there but getting it shipped to Sweden seemed like a hassle to get through costoms and buying a new one from a swedish or european supplier was very expensive even for a small one.

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So as usual I decided to build it myself.

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Did some research and found that there where several diffrent systems/functions required.

Laser tube with laser cutting controller, stepper motors with cnc controller, water cooling system, air coolling system and ventilation system.

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It was only the laser system I felt uncertain about since I had never worked with it before, but since there was several other people who had made laser cutters themself I figured that I should be able do it aswell.

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So i started my design in 3D CAD. Aimed for a cut area of 1000mm x 1000mm but ended up with around 960 x 1140.

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The frame of the laser cutter was made with aluminum extrusion profiles, the cnc functions was made of linear rails/bearing and toothed timing belts driven by stepper motors.

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The cover was made with steel sheets to contain the smoke and i had the ventilation system suck air/smoke out of the bottom.

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The aluminum frame was then mounted on a steel frame to get it at a workable hight and give some weight to the whole thing. Then the bottom steel frame ended up as a storage area.

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