Week 3: Computer
Controlled Cutting
Vinyl Cutting
I created a draft logo for my final project, Archiblox. I exported the pdf and opened it in the Sure Cuts Alot Software. I used our USCutter vinyl cutter to cut the design on a self adhesive matte black sticker sheet. After some weeding, the vinyl sticker was ready to be placed on transfer tape and placed on its final location.
Press Fit Construction Kit
For the press fit kit, I created a bone shaped tile that allowed for 7 different connection points. This would ensure a dynamic building tile that can create perpendicular linear connections, as well as diagonal connnections.
The slots were extruded with a material thickness parameter (thck) in order to make changes to the slot size quicker when making the tiles out of different materials with various thicknesses. I exported the sketch as a dxf and opened it in illustrator to make a nested file that would ensure the maximum amount of parts on the sheet material.
I exported the nested file as a PDF and opened it in the full spectrum laser software. My intial prototypes were cut from corrugated cardboard sheet.
Once the parts were cut, I was able to test the various connections to reveal the types of structural forms possible with the different configurations of the same tile.
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