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Step 1: Think of a Concept.

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Step 2: Now That We Have a Design, Launch CorelLASER

From Your Desktop.
Step 3: CorelLazer Preliminary Settings
Before you start designing your pendant, do yourself a favor and change some
preliminary settings within CorelLASER. First, change the units to centimeters.
Then change your canvas size to 30cm x 20 cm. We change this because this is
the maximum cutting area of the K40's bed.
Step 4: Enabling Object Manager
Next,go to the Tools > Object Manager. Once clicked it will add a new pane on the
right hand side of CorelLASER.
Step 5: Within the Object Manager Pane, Click New Layer.
Step 6: Rename Layer 1 to Cut, and Rename Layer 2 to
Engrave.
Step 7: Creating an Anchor Pixel in the Cut Layer
Make sure the Cut layer is highlighted and place a pixel sized square in the top
right hand corner of our drawing.
Note: One of the many quirks of the K40 laser cutter is that you need to put
a
pixel in the very top left of your layers. If this is not done, then for some
reason the laser cutter doesn't know how properly line things up (between
the cutting layers and the engraving layers).
Step 8: Draw the Shape of Your Pendant
Now that all the preliminaries are taken care of lets start to design the shape of our
pendant. Make sure the Cut layer is selected and draw a circle. I made my circle
orange (for visibility) with the diameter of 3 centimeters.
Note: There are numerous intricacies involved with CorelDraw / CorelLaser.

This you will have to learn on your own. ALSO, the K40 software cuts
anything that is NOT white.
Step 9: Hole for the Jump Ring
Now that we have the outline of our pendant, draw a small white circle within the
large red circle. This is where you would place your jump ring. I made mine .25
large red circle. This is where you would place your jump ring. I made mine .25
centimeters in diameter.
Step 10: Creating an Anchor Pixel in the Engrave Layer
Make sure that the Engrave layer is selected. Place a small 1x1 pixel in the very
top left hand corner of our drawing.
Step 11: Creating the Pendant Border
For the border of the design I found a Celtic circle with a transparent background. I
imported this design into the drawing and re-sized it. Again this is done on the
Engraving layer.
Step 12: Adding the Four Leaf Clover
Next I was able to find a four leaf clover design that I liked and imported it into the
Engraving layer.
So our design work is now complete. Pat yourself on the back. The next series of
steps explain how to feed this data to the K40 laser cutter.
Step 13: Configuring Our Data Formats
Click the small green pencil icon at the top of CorelLAZER. This will launch a
window that allows you to configure the format of the information going to the laser
cutter. Make sure that the settings are configured to the following:
Engraving Data: WMF Normal Windows Metafile

Engraving Area: Only Selected
Cuting Data: WMF Normal Windows Metafile
Cutting Area: Only Selected.
Note: If you choose other data formats, such as PLT, your cuts may be off.
Step 14: Hiding the Cut Layer
Next click the small eye icon beside Cut layer. This will hide everything we created
in the cut layer.
Step 15: Select the Engraving Layers
Using the pointer tool click and drag to select everything on the engrave layer.
Notice on the Object manager pane, all the designs are highlighted in blue.
Step 16: Click the Engraving Button Towards the Top.
Step 17: Configuring the Engrave Settings
There are some important parameters that need set within the engraving window.
We want origin to be at the very top right, so setRefer-X to 0.0000 and set Refer-
Y to 0.0000. While on the engrave window, set the Method to Dialogand click
add task. After hitting Add Task, the window should close. This tells the laser cutter
that this is one of two tasks. Also, it is not a bad idea to make sure your speed is
set appropriately. I believe I that 175.00mm/s is a good speed, but then again it all
depends on what type of material you are engraving.
Step 18: Hide the Engrave Layer, Enable the Cut Layer
Now that we have the laser engraving setup to our liking. Let's begin on the cutting
aspect of things. Click the eye beside the engraving layer to hide the shamrock and
border. Click the greyed out eye beside the cut layer to once again reveal our
orange circle.
Step 19: Click and Drag to Select All the Shapes Within Our
Cutting Layer.
Step 20: Click the Cutting Icon at the Top.
Step 21:
Whenthe cutting window pops up, Make sure your Speed is set to the appropriate
setting. For this project I was cutting wood so I did 2 passes 10mm/s @ 50%
power. Make sure your origins are set to the appropriate positions (Refer-X: 0
Refer-Y:0). Make sure that Method is set to dialog. This is because this is task 2 of
2. Make sure that the Starting checkbox is selected. This check box means that the
laser cutter will begin cutting as soon as you click Add Task.
Step 22:
Click Add Task. If everything goes correctly the laser cutter should start to engrave
your project and ultimately cut your project.
For your convenience, I've attached the CorelDraw file to this instructable. If
you are running into problems, it might be able to help you out!
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Step 1: Think of a Concept.

Step 2: Now That We Have a Design, Launch CorelLASER

Step 4: Enabling Object Manager

Step 5: Within the Object Manager Pane, Click New Layer.

Step 8: Draw the Shape of Your Pendant

Note: There are numerous intricacies involved with CorelDraw / CorelLaser.

Step 9: Hole for the Jump Ring

Step 10: Creating an Anchor Pixel in the Engrave Layer

Step 11: Creating the Pendant Border

Step 12: Adding the Four Leaf Clover

Step 13: Configuring Our Data Formats

Engraving Data: WMF Normal Windows Metafile

Step 14: Hiding the Cut Layer

Step 15: Select the Engraving Layers

Step 16: Click the Engraving Button Towards the Top.

Step 20: Click the Cutting Icon at the Top.

Thanks for looking at my Instructable.

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