Making

The making of the Octagon pieces will be done using the laser cutter.  This is the best techneque used as it is fast and once you have the octagon shaped designed on 2D Design you can run many off. 

Before designing my Octagon on 2D Design i had to do test pieces to see what the width of the grooves needed to be. This was done by doing comb pieces with a number of different size grooves, then from this you can see which fits better.

 

As you can see even 0.05mm can have an effect on whether or not the sections fit in together.  From doing these tests it saves alot of time and material later on.

Designing the Octagon on 2D Design

The design only has to be done once on 2D Design then it can be copied and pasted when you come to print on the laser cutter.

Shape for the octagon:

 

~ by katiebirchmore on January 12, 2008.