3-28-11

Morning
*We talked about the laser cutter and the mentor demonstrated how to use it
*The steps for the laser cutter are 1.inkscape to illustrator,2.illustrator formatting+basic,3. printing to the laser cutter,3a. physical setup,3b.print process+settings
*The inkscape to illustrator document size is 24" wide by 12"high and convert to text save as ".svg" file
*We watched the laser cutter cut out one of my fellow classmates design on plexi glass
*The way he did it was he made a design in the program inkscape and then saved it on his flashdrive then put it into the computer that was controlling the setting for the laser cutter and pulled up the file of his design set everything up and turned the laser cutter on and it made his design on the plexi glass
Afternoon
*We finished our models of the survey trees and sidewalk out of cardboard and bare copperwire and to hold it together hot glue
*Next, the mentor let us spend 45 minutes to make designs and other things we wanted to do related to the program greenfab
*Then, during that time the mentor made a model of a house and told me to make a design that was the same but, to add a door and an extra window
*During that time I had some of the other mentors help me with measurements and some of the windows
*I didn't finish but, managed to make the house and two windows on sketchup and the mentor had also made his model on sketchup