Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it.
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I always liked origami and various works made out of paper, but was never really good at making them because essentially I’m not very prone to arts and crafts, furthermore I always forget the steps to accomplish when I’m midway of folding and cutting.
And I found Origami Simulator by MIT CBA student Amanda Ghassei really inspiring and useful to use. This interesting platform provided me plenty of ready-made files to test and a general understanding of how achieve certain results from a plain sheet of paper.
So I decided to use some of the exemple on the plateform and then try to do my own design.
I had at my disposal a cardboard paper and even though it is not the canonical paper used for origami and such I thought it could be very handy for this project and it's was good to give it a try since I steel remember the parameter I use to cut and engrave it from the last time I use it.
On the Origami Simulator, I found a very interesting pattern called Myamoto Tower. Precisely, it is a kirigami, meaning an object crafted both by bending and cutting the paper, and it was perfect for a first test.
So I downladed the svg file and opened it
with Inkscape and I removed all the unnecessary lines (Origami Simulator renders yellow lines for its own purpose that are totally useless for the physical object).
After this ,I use the laserCAD to set the parameters and dash the blue and red lines ( those who need to be bent ) and I set the solid length to 1 mm and also the dash length to 1mm.
Then I just set the diffrent power and speed for the diffrent color and set also the priority.
Then I flashed it to the cutter and let the magic happened
After the first try , I changed the paper , this one is too thick to be manipulated and folded.I did the same steps but with a change of the machine settings according to the type of the new paper.
IT works :D
Driven by enthusiasm, I took another svg - this time of the pop-up drawing of a castle - and followed the same step.
And now it'sthe time to try something that I love make it since I was young : square twiste and I folow this site to khow how to design it , in this video, you can see the desired result
Using this paper ,I did my design on insckape
And then I import the file to LaserCAD and with the same settings I do the job , and it was verry easy and funny to create the hard origami in seconds and the resulting piece of paper was lovely to see and practical to handle.
