Assignment 3
Brief
Group Assignment
- Characterize your lasercutter's focus, power, speed, rate, kerf, joint clearance and types
Individual Assignment:
- Design, lasercut, and document a parametric construction kit,
- Accounting for the lasercutter kerf, which can be assembled in multiple ways, and for extra credit include elements that aren't flat
- Cut something on the vinylcutter
Laser cut construction kit
I opted to make a brutalist customisable press-fit kit. All of the components will have 90 degree edges but would allow the tinkerer using the kit to assembly it in many ways.
Design
I used Fusion360 to design a single panel. 1. Make the general shape of the single unit using rectangles and converting unused geometry to construction lines 2. Extend the edges with finger joint like edges 3. Allow for finger joints to be inserted at multiple angles
Laser cut
We used the Trotec Speedy 360 at the Lake Mac FabLab (not the Speedy 400 we have at Core) 1. Convert the sketches to a .dxf file 2. Remove unwated cuts in Trotec Ruby 3. Send the laser cut job to the laser 4. Verify 2 fit together 5. Make a larger QTY of them!!
Vinyl cut stickers
- A logo and node identification cards were imported into a new file
- I panelled it out using the place tool onto an A4 sheet within the Reg Marks provided by the Vinyl cutter extension,
- Cut lines were created using the Curvature tool
- Printed it out on a glossy sheet
- Vinyl cut out each of the stickers
If I were to do it again the placed illustrator files would be flattened into the file and the outlines expanded for a uniform distance on each sticker (with the white space removed so that a tree could be made with stickers)
