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Mitre saw safety
Twelve rules for the sliding mitre saw, with diagrams of the two that cause most accidents, hands inside 150 mm of the blade and sliding the head toward yourself. Read, initial, sign, then cut.
A design teacher's notebook
Notes on technological design
Guides, experiments, and classroom design projects from Fox Bright, a technological design teacher. Making things with printers, lasers, mills, moulds, CAD, and a bit of AI.
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Panel saw safety
Twelve rules for the Safety Speed vertical panel saw, with diagrams of where hands never go, how a crosscut runs top-down, and why a rip cut only feeds one way. Read, initial, sign, then cut.
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Wood framing standards
How a stick-framed wall is put together in Ontario, and how doors and windows are framed into it. Stud spacing, plates, king and jack studs, headers, cripples and rough openings, with the numbers you need to lay one out.
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Arranging parts for the laser with Fusion Arrange
Modify → Arrange packs every flat part of your model onto a 600 × 300 mm sheet in one go. Set the envelope, pick the components, read the result, then project the layout to a sketch and save it as a DXF.
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Laser-cut maps with Illustrator
Pull real street data out of OpenStreetMap as vectors, turn the roads into cuttable shapes in Illustrator, and decide whether the roads are the wood or the gaps before you send it to the laser.
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Laser cutting meets 3D printing, a stamp
Engrave a die into laser rubber, print a handle that fits it, and you have a tool that neither machine could make alone. Artwork rules, mirroring, Speedy settings and a Fusion handle in one short walk-through.
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