Note: if you have skipped here from an early step, and you don't want to do your own artwork, just download one of the .cdr files attached here. Also, go back and check step 13 to understand the printer driver. 'reptiles coaster construction.cdr' is the actual file I used. The other .cdr's were developed just as an example for this instructable, but are still totally usable.



In this step we will vector cut only. In the photos, I did both vector and rastering. This is a BIG MISTAKE. This created zillions of little pieces of tape that are a huge headache to remove later. If you're going to want to raster, do this AFTER ASSEMBLY and SANDING!



For vector cutting the veneer the goal was to not burn the veneer. To that end, I did low power, fast cutting, and multiple passes with the vector cutting. For this step, you need to make sure that only the BLUE lines are going to be printed. You do this in the 'Color Mapping' tab of the Epilog printer dialog as shown in step 13.



Turn off all raster and vector cutting in every color but blue. Make the dialog look like the one attached. i.e. make sure RASTER and VECTOR are turned OFF for everything except BLUE. On Blue, set speed to 100%, power to 50%, air assist on, vector on, raster off. This is how the color coding comes back to help us.



And... focus the laser and hit print! Definitely run this on a piece of paper before you run on your veneer :-)



DO use blue tape to pick the pieces up off the laser.





