Week3 Computer-controlled cutting


  In this week I learned to use vinyl cutter and laser cutter.As my assignment for this week,I used laser cutter to make a beautiful 12-sided ball,and I'll show it.

Laser cutter

1. It's Pentagonal dodecahedron, and paper can be tied together as showing in the right part of pic.

2. Use AutoCAD to design model,from the pentagon to pentagon petal.

3.1 Input the dwg file into the Corledraw ,then use the laser cutter to cut the file with colored paper.

3.2 Carve patterns on faces of the box for the next step..

3.3 Join together, and place a LED with a button battery in the box.

Attachments

1. DodecahedronWithPatterns.dwg