3. Computer controlled cutting¶
Computer control cutting This week we worked on the laser cutter What is a laser cutting machine? A laser cutting machine is often used in engineering for the precision cutting of components of machines. For industrial applications, a laser cutting machine is often used to cut structural and piping materials and flat sheet materials such as metal.
and had three tasks to do 1 group working project and it’s on this page 2 we made a lego carton and we made a 3d dimension cube on tinker CAD I make 5 pentagonal and 16 pentagonal and cut them in the laser cutting machine I followed these instructions for my project How to design for laser cutting 1. Design using software that creates vector files. … 2. Scale the design to the finished size. … 3. Only submit the design to the cutter. … 4. Don’t add multiples. … 5. Connect your design. … 6. Convert your text into shapes or “outlines” … 7. Make sure any cutouts or designs are large enough.
preperation to main design:¶
regarding my disgn plan for this week i have planned to create a 3D cube with a 2D paramatric shape using cuttle.xyz here is the link to this amazing software- cuttle
here is an image of cuttle interface:
i chose this software because its easy to use , because i consider my self a begginer and i recommend anyone who is new to design to start learning using cuttle , here is a picture of a design i created to get fimiliar with the joints and the strong lock between every joint to ensure the measures i will usse for the main design:
the process of creating a 3D parametric design:¶
step (1)¶
i needed to create a pentagram with 10 cm hight and 10 cm width and by adding a joint in every side of the pentagram that is 5mm deep, here is the dxf file picture Download circuit components and thats the dxf file dxf file Download circuit components and thin i had to design a 90 degree angle to link each pentagon the dxf file Download circuit components and thats the dxf file dxf file Download circuit components and here is picture of the final design
here are the dxf files :
here are the dxf files Download circuit components