WEEK 3 - COMPUTER CONTROLLED CUTTING

AFTER TURNING ON WE HAVE TO FEED THE VINYL SHEET USING THE LOADING LEVER .THEN WE NEED TO ADJUST THE PINCH ROLLER TO THE MARKED POSITION AS IT ONLY HAVE GRIP TO ROLL THE VINYL

LOCK THE LOADING LEVER AND TURN ON THE MACHINE.

SELECT whether "roll" or "piece" .do not interchange the setting 🚫 as it will confuse the machine

and then set the origin by pressing it for 2s.

I JUST CREATED DATE IN INKSCAPE AS TODAY IS BIRTHDAY🎂.EXPORTED IT INTO PLAIN SVG FORMAT.

I USED FABMODS - mods CE (community edition) is a fork of CBA mods research project. mods is a modular cross platform tool for fablabs.

upload the files into fabmods, select desired dpi of image and start CUTTING.

now we need to transfer the vinyl into a surface.thil part require some PATIENCE. i used

• masking tape
• tweezers
• SCISSORS

stick the vinyl by applying some force and pull it slowly.

make adjustments using a tweezers

now you are ready to TRANSFER the vinyl into the surface you desired.

here are some others work i done with vinyl cutting....

i designed fablab kerala on inkscape and i want to stick it on my laptop.

NOW I NEED AN WAVY TEST, FORT THAT TAKE PATH EFFECTS FROM PATH.

CHOOSE LATTICE DEFORMATION BY SEARCHING.select the text you want to deform

go to selection tool. now you can see the grid.MAKE ADJUSTMENT AS NEEDED.

now we need to flip the design so that we get correct impression on tshirt.don't forget this step.

due to space constraints i only sticked the fablab on my laptop
you can see me screen printing the same design in week 15 - wildcard week week.

for the assignment for construction kit i am thinking about creating atomic structure kit .there lets try to create PARAMETRIC STRUCTURE of benzene and carbon.

*there is a interesting story about invention of benzene structure...

Kekulé's dream

*Kekulé's benzene ring in modern form, and the alchemical ouroboros symbol of a snake eating its tail
The new understanding of benzene, and hence of all aromatic compounds, proved to be so important for both pure and applied chemistry after 1865 that in 1890 the German Chemical Society organized an elaborate appreciation in Kekulé's honor, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first benzene paper. Here Kekulé spoke of the creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail

*The new understanding of benzene, and hence of all aromatic compounds, proved to be so important for both pure and applied chemistry after 1865 that in 1890 the German Chemical Society ORGANISED an elaborate appreciation in Kekulé's HONOUR, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first benzene paper. Here Kekulé spoke of the creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail (this is an ancient symbol known as the ouroboros

laser cutter in our lab is not properly working.so we choose zund to process this assignment.

here we do not need to account "kerf" as zund is an blade cutter.

the machine we using is ZUND G3 L-2500 Digital Cutter

from the inspiration of creating PARAMETRIC kit for atomic structure of hydrogen and carbon SIMILAR to lewis structures. i designed three components

i used variable parameter for THICKNESS to change it according to thickness of the material

parameter help us to change parameter and see changes ACCORDINGLY.

THIS IS HOW CH4(METHANE) LOOKS LIKE WITH THE KIT.THIS IS DONE USING THE ALLIGN TOOL IN FUSION.

AFTER ENUMERATING THE PIECES WITH "RECTANGULAR PATTERN" TOOL IN FUSION I ARRANGED THE PIECES with the "ARRANGE" function.

selected the sketch the sketch and exported it into "dxf" format.

uploaded the the files to zund and started the print job

zund basically have 3 software to for workflow

• cut editor
• cut queue
• cut manager

select the drawing and press "0" put a small gap on x and y axis to avoid chances of uncuts.

now add a method, ie "thru cut" which cut through the material. and then add another method naming register and select the the border. i choosed "bottom right".

one thing we really ahve to consider while using is giving clearance in "machining step setting". we have to give a small CLEARANCE to avoid any chance of bed getting damaged.

there are 2 blades.we used z21- it gives better and cut whereas z16 is a universal blade.

after pushing the file back to cut editor from queue .now we have to press "online" button on zund interface.

jog zund head using keyboard .it have a INBUILT camera and autodetect edge feature. i will upload a screen recording of the process

then press "start" print job

we can also make humans with atoms...