In case you were interested, here's what the files I send to the laser cutter (pololu.com) look like. I send them an Illustrator file and they send back the cut pieces in the mail. The line thickness doesn't matter. The machine cuts right down the center of the line.
I love offsite fabrication. I was never really good at using the big power tools. This makes it easy. It's weird using Illustrator as CAD software. On the one hand, as a vector program with its distant roots in CAD, it feels so right. On the other hand, Illustrator was designed from the ground-up as an art/design tool and it feels so wrong.
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