How to Make Acrylic Cake Toppers with a Thunder Laser Nova 24
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YouTuber Things Katie Makes demonstrates how to make acrylic cake toppers using a Thunder Laser Nova 24, Lightburn, and Adobe Illustrator. Katies covers various techniques, including creating shapes with tools like the polygon and ellipse tools, removing text, and center aligning paths.
She also discusses how to adjust the settings on the laser, check the distance when cutting, and use 3M tape to avoid glue spots. The tutorial ends with a finished product and tips for making the backer shape cleaner.
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Vice President, Thunder Laser USA
6 years hands-on · Nova, Nova Plus, Bolt, Bolt Plus, Aurora, Titan
Grant has run every machine Thunder Laser USA sells since 2020 — Nova, Nova Plus, Bolt, Bolt Plus, Aurora and Titan — cutting and engraving wood, acrylic, leather, coated metals and stone. Most of his week is demos, customer sample jobs, and helping the team work through whatever a customer is stuck on. He started before the industry had much training material and learned the machines by running them, which is why he has spent the years since building the knowledge base, tutorial library and video content Thunder Laser customers learn from now. He is currently working through UV printing, fiber metal cutting and metal 3D printing to build the same material for those.
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Technical Support Manager, Thunder Laser USA
6 years hands-on · Nova Plus 51, Titan Pro 35, Aurora Pro 20W MOPA, Aurora UV, LightBurn, LaserMaker
Chris runs technical support at Thunder Laser USA, which means he sees the same failures over and over and knows which ones are actually the machine. An electrical engineer by degree and a tinkerer by nature, he has been hands-on with these machines since 2020. He runs a Nova Plus 51, a Titan Pro 35, an Aurora Pro 20W MOPA and an Aurora UV day to day, and has owned an Odin 22, a Bolt and an Aurora Lite besides — print and cut on the Titan Pro, plastics on the UV and MOPA, and wood, acrylic, tumblers, adhesive and fabric in the Nova Plus. He works in LightBurn and LaserMaker on the gantry machines and EzCad3 on the Aurora Pro.