Equipment/HPC LS3060 Laser Cutter/QCad

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Qcad

Qcad is a useful and free program to make DXF files for use with the laser cutter.

Download

You can download it here for windows, mac or linux: [1]

Documentation

The documentation is a bit thin on the ground. The official stuff is here:

[2]

Other tutorials are here:

[3]

Example

Fonts

Qcad comes with some built in fonts. I haven't worked out how to import more, but here is a pic of all the fonts available:

File:Http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewvenn/5298378294/