If you’re one of the lucky ones who has access to a laser ... patterns and has made some really cool examples — the best part is, he’s sharing them all for free (both .DXF and vector files)!

It’s not exactly trivial to cut them out by hand. [Juan] recently learned a new trick to make cutting solder stencils a less painful process. He uses a laser cutter ... as DXF files, he explains ...

Laser cutting works by directing a laser together with a motion control system to follow a pattern to be cut out of a sheet of material. The laser either melts, burns, vaporizes away the material, or ...