 We learned a bunch of new tricks with our Glowforge and we use those tricks to make this 3d a door hanger. I will show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back! Do you like to build or make it? I know you do that's why you're here because we do it every week and if you want to be cool just like Megan you can find us over on Patreon. This week we're venturing outside well to our porch. Porch area. Back to the front porch this week and we're doing it with a 3d wooden front door home sign thing with some pop-and-poses. Pop-and-poses. I like it. Wooden perennials on the sign. How do you know the perennials? Maybe they're annuals. Oh I didn't even know what perennial meant. I know you did it. Thowed in the peas. Okay. Yeah it was pea and it had to do with flowers. You're just gonna live your way through this whole thing. That's how I do every week. Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies. We just needed a piece of quarter inch MDF, a piece of eighth inch MDF and some paints and of course paint brushes unless you want to use your fingers. Step two now we're gonna make all of our cuts. We're gonna take this one down to the CNC machine and cut an 18 inch circle. Now we're gonna take this one over to the Glowforge and cut out the letters and have the flowers scored exactly where you have to paint them. That's my favorite part. But we're learning as we continue to use the Glowforge we're learning lots of new things. So we're gonna show you a few more tips slowed down this week in the Adobe Illustrator and then over in the Glowforge app. Now you don't have to use Adobe Illustrator. You could use Inkscape but some of these things will work for both. I'm an Adobe man been there for years. Yeah. So I'll meet you over in Illustrator right now. Here we're in easel. We're gonna set the dimensions of our board and our thickness. Choose our board type MDF. Here we're going to insert a circle size it to 18 inches. It's an 18 inch round. And then we're gonna set our blade depth to quarter inch and cut on path. I'm gonna open up Illustrator. Then I'm gonna drag the flower JPEG and the home JPEG onto my board, my art board. I'm gonna size them to about the size of the Glowforge board. I'm gonna create two layers. I'm gonna use one layer for scoring. I'm gonna set that color to blue because I like blue for scoring. And my other layers going to be red. I'm gonna call that one cut. Now I'll be able to separate the two layers that I want to do. I'm gonna select home. I'm gonna use the image trace tool to trace it. I'm gonna use a default setting of black and white mode. It's just black and white. Then I'm gonna expand it, ungroup it. Then I'm going to select the background. I'm gonna select same appearance and hit delete. That should delete anything that was white. I'm gonna hide home to get out of the way. I don't want to deal with it right now. I'm gonna select the flowers. I'm gonna use my image trace tool. I'm gonna try one of the default settings of six colors. Now it looks a little wonky. I'm gonna bump it seven. Great. I see all the colors I saw before. So I'm gonna preview. I'm gonna hit trace. Now I'm going to expand it, ungroup it. I'm gonna select the white background again. Then I'm gonna do select same appearance. Hit the delete key. All the white should be gone. I'm gonna select the entire image again. Wrong tool. I'm going to select the entire image again. I'm gonna group it so it all stays together. Then I'm going to remove the fill and set the outline to red. Remember, outline of red is a cut. I'm gonna select the entire image, copy paste. I'm gonna set this outline to blue. Blue is my score color. I'm going to separate the layers. I'm gonna move this layer of blue and move this layer of blue, this one, this one, up to the score layer. Now I can hide it. I'm gonna select all of the blue, unhide the red, and line them up. They should snap into place. Now I'm just going to hide the red. I'm going to ungroup the blue. Now I can use my select tool and select all the paths and just delete anything that I don't want scored. It's okay to leave some things that might get scored and cut because it doesn't matter. You're cutting it anyway, right? I'm gonna unhide the red. Looks good. You can see where all the cuts are and where all the scores are. I'm gonna hide the blue and remove all the lines that I don't want cut. I'm gonna merge those lines that I do want to stick together. I want all of these to come out as one piece, so it's a lot easier to paint. I'm gonna make them touch. I'm gonna merge them and then I'm gonna clean up the lines that didn't really go through. I'm gonna use my select tool and merge, merge, merge. I'm gonna need some cleanup. I'm gonna merge all those. You just come in with your select tool and select those handles and hit delete key and you'll be deleting those lines. It gets a little tedious but makes it look good. I'm gonna unhide the blue. Looks great. Now I'm gonna do the same to home. I'm gonna remove the fill, make sure it's set to red. That's my cut. I'm gonna try to get it all to fit on one board now. Remember to select all the layers if you're gonna move it or resize it so they all move and resize together. All right, looks great. I'm gonna export it as an SVG. Give it a little name so I remember. Here we're using regular old NDF that you can get at your home improvement store and we're adding paper masking tape. Just plain old school paper masking tape. It can't have any wrinkles in it. It's got to be perfectly flat and not overlapping so that it cuts perfectly. And then I cut out a little QR code from the proof grade materials that I used to trick the camera. Here we're uploading our SVG image into Glowforge. It comes in a little bit smaller so we're gonna select everything and just resize the whole image to fit our board. And notice here that home comes in gray and not red. We realize it's a lesson learned that it was hanging off the board just slightly so we had to nudge it to get it back onto the board and poof turns red. Now it will cut. And you see that all of the proof grade selections are selected because of the QR code. Click print and it starts with the scoring. That's the first layer he did and then it goes right into the cuts. So you'll notice that they did the score and then the cut. That's the order of your layers. Step three. Now we're gonna paint. First tee. Okay so this time we've decided we're going to use a quarter inch round. It's only quarter inch thick, 18 inches round. And that's because the ones from the hardware store or your home improvement store those are nice but they're very heavy. And I found that when you open and close the door they beat the door a little bit. And I try and put some double-sided tape on the back but it comes loose and still beats the door. So this time we're gonna try using this quarter inch thick 18 inch round. Every time the wind blows I feel like somebody's knocking. Yeah it does sound like it's knocking. So this is the first time we've used a quarter inch round and we're gonna see how that turns out. And secondly so we've made our cuts. They're on our little quarter inch board here. It still has the transfer tape on it or duct tape or a masking tape. Like traditional masking tape. So it still has the masking tape and I think it's going to be easier to paint and peel tape as we go. That way it doesn't I think it just protects staying inside the lines a little better than if we peel everything off and pop it out. So we're gonna try doing it this way kind of paint as we go. And hopefully it'll stay in place a little better where we're trying to paint it. Right it'll make it easier to paint all these little things because they won't be moving around. Although I will share a little tip we learned from watching someone else's video which I thought was very clever is using, do we have them close by? Glue dots. Putting a glue dot down and putting like maybe one of these little flower buds right on the glue dot and then you can paint it and it doesn't move. So we won't probably won't use that today but you can put that in your little tip bin and use it later. Put it in your tip bin. I'm using some coastal blue chalk paint. Right that's new to me. I saw it on Amazon I think that this Rustilium's Coastal Blue and I thought it was beautiful so I'm using it today because I think it's such a pretty color. Okay so it did still bleed down the sides a little bit but we have a trick for that. Use a little Sharpie and then you can clean up the edges with the Sharpie marker so that they stay black or you could just be a better painter than we are. Step four now we're gonna glue it to the board we're gonna use my favorite glue that's sarcasm E6000. It's like glorified rubber cement. And thanks to your tips we're gonna do a combination of E6000 hot glue so make it stick down stay down and stick right now. Well if you watched our Glowforge video we decided to buy the Glowforge in order to add some more stuff to our store. Maybe that's why I decided to buy the Glowforge but anyway this is going to be our first new kit that we're adding into our store using the Glowforge. It will come with everything that you see here the round the letters and the flowers. You'll have to pick your own paints. 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