Computer-controlled cutting

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The purpose of this week was to learn about different ways of controlled cuttting. After discovering what was vinyl cutter, hot wire, water cutter, I used mostly the laser cutter to mettre en forme cardboard. The assignement was to use laser cutter to made volumes, so I wanted to do something usefull for my room. The idea was to divide a slot of my shelf with cardboard.



To do it, I first thought of making notch and tap to join the parts together. I made some sample but they were weak, so I tried another way to do. I engraved the cardboard so I could wrap it on itself.



So the pieces were just large tape of cardboard with the exact right dimensions of my shelf, engraving where it need to be wrap.



The files contains also some small holes. That's because I needed a way to fold the cardboard at the right angle, thus I have used wool yard strained. Also I think cardboard and wool make a cute couple.



I also did a back for my boxes. I took a paint by Vasarely and put it in 'Processing' with a script from the 'Generativ Gesaltung' wich is really great to learn how to program visual stuffs. Unfortunately, the cardboard was not flat enough so it did't cut well, and the file took an hour to be cut because it has a lot of little circle. Thus I keep it the way it is wich is more random than I expected but fine I think.



Another problem I get was that I designed all my pieces as if they were folding on the inside instead of the outside and I couldn't notice that on my sample, so it's like I had didn't care about the thickness of the material.



Anyways it had fit, I used my hand cutter for once to do some fix. My shelf is now easiest to arrange



Next step for this (I hope there will be a next step !) will be to use cardboard instead of wool to get the right angles, and keep the wool only for the good looking. And finally get it all parametrics so I just put the dimensions of my shelf and the number of boxes I want and it automatically calculate all the pieces.