“I take bits and pieces of other designs and kind of cut and paste ... Once the design is in the computer and then goes over to the CNC plasma cutter, it takes a matter of minutes to finish.

But “cheap” and “good” don’t always intersect on a Venn diagram, and even when they do, not every plasma cutter is suitable for use on the spanking new CNC table you’re building.

Adding in fancy new tools like CNC plasma cutting and computer-aided drafting doesn’t change that much, although new methods often do call for a little improvisation. Getting several ...

The Department of Art and Art History offers a number of digital fabrication tools including a CNC router, CNC plasma cutter, two laser cutters, 24” vinyl cutter, and a number of 3D printers. In order ...