Published: Jul 29, 2023 by K. E. Claytor
After the success of the last Netrunner laser-cut ID’s I thought I would do another set for East Coast Nationals 2023. This was right before Smoke (one of my favorite runners) was going to rotate, and The Outfit was doing super strong, so I had an easy time deciding what to do.
For this one, however, I had recently learned about inlaying and adjusting for the laser kerf (the width of the cut). Basically, what you do is you take the inlay and enlarge it uniformly by ~0.04” or whatever your kerf ends up being, then they should press-fit tightly together.
Smoke is a wood base with an inlaid translucent red hair, and turned out better than my expectations:
I ended up making multiple outfits, as I would have a little bit of waste that I then wanted to use again. The green translucent background shows a bit of the scorching from the cutting, but the others turned out very well - I think the black background with the translucent green inlay is my favorite.
Here are the vector art files if you’d like to make your own. Note that I generally design them 90% in Inkscape (free) and then transfer them over to CorelDraw (paid) when I’m on the laser, since that’s what it needs. Hence the SVG files need a bit of work to get out what you see in the images, whereas the CDR files are what I actually put into the cutter.
- Smoke - (Inkscape / .svg) (hair needs to be separated) Combined
- Smoke - (Corel draw / .cdr) Base Hair
- The Outfit Inkscape .svg Corel .cdr
