Getting prepared for a sample of living joints to sample out on the laser cutter.
Sometimes it's hard for me to imagine something in a 2D format so
printing in cardboard allowed me to play with the material physically
and get a feel for it. For this pattern I needed to add an extra
section in order for it to be four sides. I also need to reduce the
length of the joinery walls, they are double of the other panels
creating an obtuse triangle.
I made some adjustments to my files to make them function a little bit better.
I added an extra panel and reduced joinery walls so now it forms a square versus a fat triangle.
For the stand, I had issues getting the stand to mount up correctly so I tried to rectify the issue by broadening the base.
I thought I was ready to try out wood. Wrong. We only had boards that
were fairly warped, I thought I would rig it to "make it work". Nope.
The laser cutter ended up cutting at angles and making sections too small and mauling everything.
However my stand worked! I still want to re-work the pattern though,
some of the off cuts are a bit too thin for it to be functional. Also
the area where the object is supposed to sit in the stand, there is too
much area so I'll reduce the pattern.
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