Module 3 Exercises

Vinyl Cutting

Date
Explanation
9/2/17

draw

The design drawn using inkscape. Actually I wanted to make a personal logo. Spent a lot of time with freecad. Unsatisfied. It crashed many times in the process.

Also found to difficult to do with Antimony.

Then tried a simpler one using inkscape. I want to improve this.

large


The first cutting was  resulted in a large cut sheet due to the wrong size settings as above.

lar

Large sheet - wrong result!
small

Modified the sheet size

int

The result


logo

When pasted




Press fit & Laser Cutting

Date
Explanation
9/2/17 - 13/2/17 Tried to do the varying slot dimensioning with antimony. It was tedious. Hence tried openscad. Seems comfortable.

slots

The code and view of the slot dimensioning
The laser cutter with cardboard sheet loaded

laser
align


The alignment of the laser head







12/2-15/2


Press fit Construction
box

Intermediate result