Simple wooden lamp design for a laser cutter
- 150 mm x 150 mm x 3 mm MDF board
- 500 mm x 350 mm x 9 mm MDF board
- Lightbulb socket
- Lamp wire with on/off switch
- Lightbulb
This project was originally made at Brasília Fab Lab, so I recommend taking a look at the guidelines on how to use their laser cutter before you start. Buy the materials, make a reservation and use either the full lamp assembly file (1 x lamp.dxf, 1 x lamp-base.dxf) or each separate part file (2 x lamp-side-a.dxf, 2 x lamp-side-b.dxf, 1 x lamp-base.dxf).
IMPORTANT: Take note of the thickness of the material to be cut for each file. This lamp was made to be cut on 3 mm MDF (base) and 9 mm MDF (sides).
When I cut my lamp, I set the laser cutter to full power at 5 mm/s, which took me about an hour. I think I could probably use a faster speed, it kind of depends on the machine's adjustments and maintenance at the time. I recommend testing these configurations before you cut. Have fun!
I separated each part in different files to make it easier to use with leftover materials, but a full lamp assembly (sides) for a 500 mm x 350 mm board is available as well. Take note that DXF importing in some laser cutting software (such as RDWorksV8) may change the drawing's dimensions - because of that, I have included a rectangular outline in every drawing you can use to resize the whole drawing to match the original design.
I used Inkscape 0.91 to design the lamp in SVG, exporting the files to DXF using Big Blue Saw's DXF Export For Inkscape.