Laser-engraved House Sign

For a housewarming party, we liked to make a house sign as a present.

I used a lasercutter to engrave the sign and then cut it to the required size.

-4mm acrylic plate (can be any thickness, just keep in mind that the plate still needs some rigidity)

-lasercutter

I used Inkscape to make the file. this is an easy to use program and best of all, it's free.

I started by drawing the outline of the sign using the box tool. Make sure the line is 0.1mm thick and the red-value is 255 so the lasercutter knows these are cut lines. Next I used the text-tool to make the text and copy/pasted an image as some decoration. The text and image should be black so the lasercutter knows this is to be engraved.

Make sure the settings are ok, send the file to the lasercutter et voila!