How To Design And Create Cookie Cutters

1. Introduction: Hi, I am Jam. She welcome to my turning course. In this course, I'm going to teach you how to design and make plastic cutters which are available for sale on most website. And you can also sell cutter files or parented models and earned income. In this course, we are starting training from simple cutters to complex cutters. So stay with me and enjoy watching this course. 2. 1 software setting: I use Solid Works version 2021 software. To design the cutter, we click on the new document, select the Part section, and press the Okay button. The first thing we do after interring the software environment is to set the size setting to MDGs so that we can easily change the sizes. Let's give dimensions of our design in millimeters. The next setting we make is the selected view from which we usually design the cutters. On this part, we the top view and by left clicking on it, once we select the sketch option that the top view is displayed for us, in which we make the setting and design of the cutters. 3. 2 design circular cutter: In this part of the tutorial, we are going to design a simple circular shape. From the sketch tab of this part that you see in the video, I click on the circle tool, set it to selection mode, and start drawing a circle. On the top plan. We usually start the design of cutters from the origin of coordinates. In this way, I place the center of the circle on the origin of coordinates By dragging the modes outward, it draws a circle from the window on the left. We don't have to deal with any of the options, just press the green, press the cache button from the keyboard. After drawing the shape, it's our turn to give dimensions to our design or shape. In this way, we select the Smart Dimension tool from the sketch tab. With one move, click on the circle, We can change the dimensions of the circle at light dimensions we want. By default, the diometer of the circle can be changed for a smart dimension. But you can also change the radius from the left window. After releasing the mouse, the window will open and we can change the dimensions of our circle in the blue highlight. After giving the dimensions to our circular and design, we can press the green tick from the left window. As you can see, the color of our design changed from blue to black, which means that those dimensions have been approved for our design. Well, for the next part, you select the offset entity tool from the sketch tab. By clicking the mouse on the design line, it creates an offset with a specific thickness and size from the original design. By default, the offset is set to 10 millimeters, which we consider two or 3 millimeters from the design of the cutters. It's up to you to choose, but here I choose 3 millimeters to make the offset and press the conformation button. After designing the first offset for our design, we need to design and draw another offset for the circle. We perform the offset steps in the same order as before, and only consider the thickness of the offset to be 65% of millimeter. I usually delete the numbers displayed on the screen after sizing the design using the delete button on the keyboard so that we can manage our design more easily. In the end, the shape of our cutter is designed as a line and we have to make this line treaty. In this way, we click on the extrude base option from the feature step by placing the mouse between the offsets. As you can see, the background color turns red. By choosing offsets, I can add volume to the spaces. In this way, I select the desired dimensions for extruding from the left window and the depth section to extrude This part of the cutters, I consider the dimensions to be 2 millimeters. After confirming the extrusion, as you can see, an offset with the thickness of 2 meters was extruded around my design and my shape. To continue extruding, I select extrude option from the part section. Select the boss, extrude one and sketch one and click on offset. We do the same steps for the inner part of the cutter. Our design, we usually consider the inner blade of the cutter to be 10 millimeters Display is the one that cut the clay in the cutter after giving the numbers to the extruder. A simple circular design is designed and we have a circular cutter with specific dimension antiques. The part that cuts clay is the inner blade, which is ten millimeter in height. Antiqueness, a blade that is two millimeter in the form of a ring around display is a support for a cutter to increase the strange and resistance of the cutter. After designing the cutter, turn to save our design, a special format for the tiled printers. We click on the Save as option. Choose a name for our design from the file section, the STL format from the save type section, and save the file. 4. 3 design rectangular cutter: After choosing the top line, you are going to design a square and rectangular cutter. In this section from the kach tap Bekilick on the rectangle corner tool and draw a rectangle on the origin of the coordinates. We don't need to draw specific dimensions to start with, we can give it exact dimensions With the smart dimension tool from the cache tap, We type 40 millimeter on the line of the rectangle and millimeter on the width of the rectangle. As usual, I deleted the size numbers next to this rectangle. I draw square with the rectangle tool and equal dimensions with a smart dimension to design the cutter. We try to design each design separately so that they are saved separately. In the next step, we'll start to offset both designs. First, we'll start with an offset of three limiters. To move the design, I start by selecting the full design, clicking on the move ment its option, and selecting a point in the design. We continue to offset with an offset of 65% of millimeter for the main edge of the cutters. In the next step, I select extrude from features and start extruding the designs. As you can see in the video, we continue the steps in this order to change the view of the camera By keeping the screw off the mouse and moving the mouse in other direction. We can see the design cutter from different angles. And we can choose which view to see from the space pattern. We save the file cutters in SCL format. 5. 4 design polygonal cutter: To design the polygonal cutter, we use the polygon tool in the sketch tab. We can design polygonal shape for cutters with this tool. In the left window, we only work the parameter section where we can determine the number of sides of the polygon. I used an octagonal form here. Again, choosing this number of sides, it's up to you. The design of these forms is like the design of the circle which has a center. And we can draw the shape by moving the mouse around. I also derive pentagonal shape, usually for polygonal, curved, and complex forms. We consider the measurement between two points. As you can see, I only consider the distance between these two points, and we use this measurement method for complex shape. For this shape, we can consider the dimensions of these two points, or the dimensions of the central circle. After measuring, we erase the sizes so that we could do this design more easily. In the next step, we start to offset our design. Considering the initial offset as two or three millimeter. We consider the internal offset to be 65% of millimeter, which is the main blade for cutting the clay. After the design is offset, it's time to extrude the design. In this way, we start to extrude the offsets, we do the outer extrusion and then the inner extrusion of the design. After the end of extruding, we save the files in L format. 6. 5 design bean shaped cutter: The next shape that we are going to design for the cutter is a bean shaped that is done with the ester slot from the SK tab. For this purpose, we design the beginning and end of our shape in the same order. After selecting the end of the shape, we can move the most around. We design the shape without a specific length and width. And see this is a curved design and has no broken sides. We have to use two points to give the dimensions, just like the previous cutter. By keeping the mouse on the circle and semicircle lines, we can find the center point of the circle, connect them to the other end. And consider the length of the design. We do the same for the dimensions of the work width. To choose the dimensions, we can erase the number and continue the design. It is better to use the tool to design forms that are combinations of rectangles and circles because we can do the design more easily. Well, we will do the next steps of designing the cutter by offset. We will make this cutter according to the method of making the previous cutters. We consider the offset extrusion around the wall to be 2 millimeters and the extrusion inside the wall, which is the cutting blade, is always considered to be 65% of millimeter. After the end of extruding, we save the design in STL formats. 7. 6 design oval shape cutter: In the section, we are going to design an oval shape with the ellipse tool. From the K tab. I made the design according to the previous steps from the origin of the coordinates. Place the center of the ellipse on the origin of the coordinates and start the design. First we draw the length of the wall, and then we draw a width of the wall. With the ser dimensions, we determine the length and width of the oval. With the mart dimension tool, I draw a smaller Oll next to this design so that we can put it at the end. To move the design, we use the move to selecting the design completely. We do the offset of the design first and then the offset of the inner blade. Then we do the extruding steps with the thickness of 2 millimeters and 10 millimeters, and we save the prepaid fall in L format. 8. 7 design ring like cutter: In this section, we are going to design a cutter that feeds two forms inside. For this purpose, I draw a circle with a circle tool, and consider the desired dimensions For the circle, I will draw another circle in the center of the circle and the origin of the coordinates and consider its dimension as desired. In order to connect the two circles, I use the line tool and connect the perimeter of the two circles to a line. Whenever we draw the line, we can press the escape button on the keyboard to exit the selection mode. As you can see in the video, be careful not to have one side inside the designs before offset to the selection mode, because as you can see, a yellow line is created under the main line that we designed. It's not our chosen line in this way. We always press the escape button so that no line is selected. We consider the offset for the outer line at first. In the next step, we should have the offset of the inner circle towards the inside of the smaller circle in this way. And draw that offset because the main shape that we are going to create a clay is like these two circles. We have to make sure that the outer offset is facing outward and the inner offset is facing toward the inside of the design, it's time to offset the lines with drew around the two circles and these two lines are a support for the central cutter to the outer cutter. We call these lines supports. We consider thickness of to be between three or four millimeter. I always consider the offset to be two way. I select the directional tick, and the tick make us have the same offset on both sides. In cutter design, the offsets must always reach the adjacent line. So that we can extrude the design for this fulfus, we use the extend it this tool which draws the extension of the line, the adjacent line. And when we click end of the offset line, we extend this part to the line. The next tool we need to cut the extra is the three nits too. By drawing a line on the extra lines, only those parts will be erased because these lines cause travel when extruding. I also clear the main support lines to design the general view of the design. We begin to ex, for the inner parts of the support. We also consider two millimeter extrusion. We must design the support for this style of cutter. With this cutter, we can create a ring like, cut under clay. 9. 8 design bean shaped forms inside one shape cutter: In this section, we are going to design a cutter as an exercise like the previous cutter, which is two cutters inside one cutter. For this purpose, I will design two shapes. First, I draw a square and place a circle in the center of this square. We find its center, as you can see in the video. To draw a circle will withdraw the circle as the center of the equation. The next design I will design is a bean shaped design that with the S Sir Slot Tool and have two bean shaped form inside one shape. We plan the dimensions with a smart dimension. In the next step, withdraw another bean shaped design inside the main design. We try to place the design completely in the center. For support, we use the line tool to increase the strength of the cutter, and we use these two points. For such designs, the offset must be facing outward and we disable the directional teach. For the inside part, we consider the offset towards the inside of the design. We also draw the offset of the cutter blade. In the next step, we ex, the only point here is that we consider rude two for support. 10. 9 Practice for 2 shaped cutters: Another example of those cutters that we can make with two internal designs is this style of design where you can learn how to make a support for the cutter. The circle that is going to be designed is not placed in the center, it's placed above the center. And there is a different method to make the support of these cutters. I design the cutter in this way and give it dimensions as desired. After moving the move tool, it's time to offset, the point of which is to offset the inner part, which should be the offset of the smaller circle towards the inside. In the next step, we use the line tool to draw the support. After drawing the line, we use the Cape button and the keyboard to confirm the line. After drawing the main support line, it's time to determine a specific thickness for the main support line, which we consider to be three or four millimeter from both sides of support. And the directional tick must be active. The X and Entities tool withdraw the extension of the lines. With the three Entities tool, we remove the addition to the lines. Pay attention to the fact that the first option must be active in the left window so that we can easily delete the extra lines by drawing a line, we also the central lines of the support extrude according to the previous step and save the cutter in a steel format at the end. 11. 10 prepare designs to making cutters: In this section, we are going to design a series of cutters from photos or designs that we downloaded or printed. Geometric designs that have broken lines, like the photos you see in the video, and care lines are not used in them. We enter the designs that we have chosen into the Photoshop software so that we can enter the solitude environment by making changes to them. For this furpus, we enter the mode section from the image section and click on RGB color. We do sa steps for all designs. All designs must be RGB color. In the next step, we enter the Sava section and save the designs in PST formats. We do this step for the rest of the designs as well. In this way, we prepare the designs to enter the solids ors environment. 12. 11 design geometric cutter part1: In this section th the open folder, we will enter the files that we saved as PSD's into the solid work environment. In this way the images enter the solid works environment. And we calk on the green tick from the left window so that we can do the design method with the line. To for symmetrical designs, we must draw the line of symmetry to have a more accurate design. With the line tool, we start drawing lines from a point. Be careful that all points must be connected. After finishing the design, we can delete the original image. For this purpose by clicking on a part of the photo. We can delete the image from the keyword with the delete pattern. We select the whole design and click on the mirror entity tool. In the next step, the selected components are displayed first, and the bottom option of the symmetry line is considered. Make sure the copy option is checked. The main line, our design is drawn and we erase the parts of the design that we don't need with the team entities tool. After designing the main four, it's time for the dimensions of the design. We consider the longer lane of the two points of the design as the main lane and give it that size. We start to offset all the lines and select only the offsets that are facing the outside of the design. And we select the lines that have the offset facing the inside. Later we will draw the offset of the rest of the line. After the offset is finished, it's time to connect the offsets line. And for this we do, as you see in the video, we delete the extra lines. With the Trim Entities tool. We do these steps for all parts for designs that are going to be used as a Cotter sign. We must use offset with the difference. That we consider the offset to be two sided and non directional. And we consider the internal offset to be 33% of millimeter. And we offset all the internal lines in the following. We will delete the external lines again using the entities in the parts where the lines are not connected, we must connect the lines with extant to me. After the end of the internal offset, it's time for the round offset of our design, which is considered two or 3 millimeters after the pile of said, we start to extrude our design. As usual, the cutting blade of the cutting is 10 millimeters. The extruded support blade is two millimeter, and the internal blades are 8.5 millimeter. All the offset parts must be selected for extruding and even the smallest parts must be selected. After finishing the design, we save the file in steel formats. 13. 12 design geometric cutter part 2: In this section, we work on another geometric model. We enter the desired PSD file into solid work, and confling the green tick. We always use the line tool to design this style of design. This shape is not symmetrical and we try to design all the lines with the line tour and the line must always be connected. After finishing the design, we can delete the background photo by kylicking on the photo and using the delete button on the keyboard. In the next step with the smart dimension, we consider the largest length of the design that you see as the main length and measure. In the next step, we offset all the lines and consider the offset to be two millimeter or 3 millimeters. And the offset lines are always facing the outside of the design. With the trim tool additions of the lines for the parts where the lines are not connected, we use the extent entities tool and use the line too. And we do these steps for all the parts that are not connected. In the next step, we put an offset of 65% of millimeter on the design as you can see. And for directional offset, we consider the 33% of millimeter. And offset according to the previous systems. We also erased all the external lines with the three into the point in this design is that for this part we have to draw a line with the line tool to extrude it separately. By holding the control key and selecting additional lines, we can delete them at the end. In the next step, to increase the ring of the cutter next to lines of the cutter, we must draw offset that will be ex, throughout these lines with the line tool. In the next step, we will extrude the design. Some of the internal of the cutter can be extruded to increase the string of the cutter. We consider the inner part of the cutter to be 8.5 millimeter extruded. After finishing the design, we saved the file in the steer format. 14. 13 prepare designs to making cutters: Well, in this part I'm going to select some of the designs that I have chosen before which have more complex forms and the curved lines inside them to make the cutter. The designs that are usually used in making cutters. As before, we enter all the photos after that from the image section into the mode section and set them to RGB. Then we save it in PST format to make complex cutters with the curved line. 15. 14 design curved line cutter part1: In this part, we are going to make a relatively simple form. We will enter our design into solid works and start designing A. Since our design is symmetrical, we draw the symmetry line approximately and use the line tool. To draw this line, I select the line tool. And from this point I start to draw part by part from the line of our design. Well, after designing one side of our shape, we select the wall part. And using the mirror entities tool, I draw the mirror image of that part to have a more accurate shape. And we delete the extra part. And draw again with the line too. Well, after designing all the lines, we delete the image of the design and start sizing our design with the Smart Dimension tool. And we erase the numbers after sizing. In the next step, we will offset the wall design. And I will consider the offset of two or three millimeter first, and then the offset of 65% of millimeter. As usual, we do the extuding steps at the end, we save our result in the steal format. 16. 15 design curved line cutter part2: In this part, we are going to make another model of cutters with a car design that is designed with a line tool. The internal part of this design is important for cutter design. From the circle tool, you select the three points section and the start designing in the same way as you can see in the video. Also use the line tool to draw a stride line, to draw the main shape of the design. Using the Trementity tool, we also delete the extra lines in the next step using the ellipse tool. First draw the center of the ellipse and then the shape. By dragging the mouse around, we can copy paste the initial design so that all the watermelon seeds are the same size. For this purbuse I selected design, use the copy tool and copy the number of designs. To rotate the designs, I use the rotate tool. And by selecting the center of rotation, we rotate all the ellipse according to the original design. By selecting the center of rotation, if needed, we can use the move tool to move the ellipses. I also use the offset tool to design the inner half circle and consider the approximate size of the offset. I erased the external lines with the Trim Entities tool and drew the extension of the symmetrical with the Extend Entities tool. After the design is finished, we can erase the original image. When we use the upset tool during the design. In the S step, we are going to size our design. It may give an error. To solve this problem, we first select the entire design. From this part, I select a scale tool and scale the design to as a point. And I do this by increasing and decreasing this number. Now using the Smart Dimension tool, we can change the size the following. We continue the offset steps. First the offset around the design and then the offset of the cutting blade. There is no need to offset the inside of because they are supposed to be curved inside the clay. For the inner part, we add 33% of illimeter for upset, for extruding, we need to extrude the center of the cutter so that we can extrude the internal designs. As you can see in the video, we do the extruding process. 17. 16 design curved line cutter part3: In this part, we are going to design a flower cutter that has a relatively complex design and we use the line tool to design. As usual, we start designing from the center of the flower. And by zooming in and zooming out completely from the lines, we do the design. All lines must be connected during design. After finishing the design, we can delete the image of the design by using a smart dimension we give the desired size to the design. In the next step, we use the offset tool to offset the edge of the design. Just be careful that all the offset line must be connected and facing the outside of the main design. We also erase the extra line with the Tree mentes tool. After the offset of the edge, it's time to offset the cutting blade of the cutter. To make the work easier, we calculate the offset from the outside of the work so that we don't have to take the extra step of erasing the lines. For this purpose, we subtract 65% of millimeter from the thickness of the outside offset to get the correct number. Calculate the offset in the following, we consider the offset as a reverse from the outer line. As you can see in the next part, it's time to offset the interior line of the design, which you must carefully offset. We offset the inner part of Lover by 65% of millimeter. We connect the offset lines with the line tool and continue the offset steps. After finishing the upset, it's time to extrude the design for more strength. In the inner parts, we can extrude the center of the cutter to the size of 2 millimeters and we use 8.5 millimeters extrude for the inner lines. After finishing the design, we save the Carter file STL formats. 18. 17 final step: After saving the file of the cutters in a steel format, it's time to enter the special software for the treaty printer. I'm using the A software here. The print accuracy is set to fine, which is a good print. I imported all the steel files, the Cura environment, and arrange the files. As you can see in the video, we can delete any model we want and redo the arrangement. In this way, we prepare the files for Tuesday printing.