[Johan von Konow] is upping his holiday decorating game this year by designing his Gingerbread House in CAD and cutting it out on a laser cutter ... complexity of your design by orders of magnitude.

he explains how to scale them using AutoCAD. The re-sized file is then exported as a PDF. [Juan’s] trick is to actually cut two pieces of 7mil Mylar at the same time. The laser must be ...

Design files must first be drawn up using computer aided design (CAD) software. Access to a laser cutter and CAD software Lasers cut by burning through the material and are incredibly precise.

Laser cutting is the use of a high-powered laser ... The first thing you need to do is to create your design. Your CAD drawing has to be a vector file, which is different from an image file ...