Laser-cut stencil and EXIT sign

Making this stencil, to spray paint an EXIT sign on Xerocraft's rear door, was a task that motivated me to learn some Adobe Illustrator and practice using the Trotec Speedy 300 shortly after I'd taken the class. Doing this within a few days after taking the class definitely helped the material to consolidate, set, catch, or be reinforced in my mind.

As you may have guessed, I just opened Illustrator, typed EXIT, outlined the text, and set the outline to red, which in Xerocraft's convention means "cut."

In Trotec Job Control Iused the setting for "vellum." Vellum is actually calf skin, but this kind of cardboard apparently cuts like vellum would.

Were I to do this again, I'd spray the back of the stencil with a temporary spray adhesive to make it behave similar to a Post-It note. You know, the kind that is sorta tacky but not too tacky?