03_COMPUTER-CONTROLLED CUTTING

josefinaPETRINI

_CONCEPT: cardboard packaging

The idea was to give simple packaging forms and patterns with which users can actually interact. Through the combination of geometrical, patterns, folding properties, the cardboard "box" becomes a new object.

   

_HOW TO..

The first thing was drawing the molds to send the archive to the laser cutting machine. As I was using a pattern containing dashed lines, the first trial was in Autocad, but Rhino didn´t read the dashed properties I had used for the lines. So after some tests, I directly draw it in Rhino, created two different layers and send it to Adobe Ilustrator to trace each dash to an object.

_FIRST ATTEMPTS

The first attempts to fold the cardboard failed due to the fact that the pattern scale wasn´t compatible with the thickness of the material(3mm cardboard). Tried different types or cardboard and scales, but the pattern would just simply break.

       

TROUBLESHOOTING

Cutting dash lines: Draw continuos lines in Rhino, create a new layer and give it the dashed property. Take it to Adobe Ilustrator and trace every lines so each dash becomes a single line.

FILES

Packaging .dxf file