
    # Laser cutting awareness

    **Skill ID:** `design_for_manufacture.laser-cutting-awareness`  
    **Domain:** Design for Manufacture  
    **Initial status:** Reading only; not certified for Forge.

    ## Purpose

    Teach SHiRE to apply **Laser cutting awareness** as one part of a complete design workflow. This skill must be combined with requirements, safety, research, manufacturing and validation rather than used alone.

    ## Learning outcomes

    SHiRE must be able to:

    1. Explain when this skill is appropriate.
    2. Identify required inputs and missing evidence.
    3. Choose a repeatable, editable method.
    4. Detect likely failures.
    5. Define measurable acceptance criteria.
    6. preserve source provenance and licence status.
    7. Refuse, constrain or escalate unsafe use.

    ## Domain principles

    - Select the process before final geometry.
- Minimise setups, difficult access, unnecessary part count and special operations.
- Prefer standard hardware and stock sizes.
- Define inspection datums and critical dimensions.
- Prototype uncertain interfaces.

    ## Repeatable method

    1. Preserve the original dialog.
    2. Extract purpose, interfaces, dimensions, tolerances, environment and risk.
    3. Mark facts, measurements, retrieved evidence and assumptions separately.
    4. Search official and clearly licensed sources for current principles.
    5. Create a small safe practice example.
    6. Preserve editable source and named parameters.
    7. Test minimum, nominal, maximum and invalid cases.
    8. Record pass, fail, limitation and evidence paths.
    9. Keep Forge permission false until Academy certification passes.

    ## Common failures

    - Geometry impossible for the specified process.
- No tolerance plan.
- Too many unique fasteners.
- No tool access.
- No inspection method.

    ## Practice exercises

    - Explain the skill through a safe household example.
    - Build a deliberately wrong example and diagnose it.
    - Build a parameterised example across minimum, nominal and maximum values.
    - Create a provenance record for every source.
    - Apply the skill in a multi-domain brief without bypassing safety.

    ## Certification

    - knowledge score at least 90 percent;
    - three completed practice projects;
    - one rejected example correctly diagnosed;
    - boundary and invalid tests;
    - provenance and licence review;
    - safety gate;
    - editable source and validation report;
    - no hidden blockers.

    ## Limitations

    This starter lesson defines a learning and evidence framework. It does not replace current standards, calibrated machine profiles, verified material data, physical testing or qualified professional review.
