The toy was originally invented in 1966, but has since been discontinued, and I no longer have my set from when I was a child. This immediately made me think of PlayPlax a toy that I had when I was very young, that was handed down to me by my mum. The main task for this week was to create a laser cut press-fit construction kit, from which it was possible to build a number of different structures. It has come out with a very clean cut and a high level of precision. In order to remove it from the tape i just pressed the sticky back of it to the laptop, smoothed it with a credit card and them slowly peeled the masking tape from the front of it. After I had got all of them out, just by peeling them away with a sharp edge, the sticker looked like this.Īs you can see, the second cut was far larger than the second, in order to imrpove the strength of the sticker. I then prepared to make a second cut in the same way that I had done the first, still making the measurements of the vinyl piece using the sensors on the machine for increased accuracy and speed.Īs you can see, the second cut was much more successful as it was actually possible to remove the remaining segments from between the lines. Once this was done the lines were much wider, meaning that they wouldn't pull apart after they were cut. As you can see, in Rhino i did not have to redraw the shape, I used the offset tool to increase the width of the lines so that the sticker would be more stable. In order to fix this issue I ported the file back to Rhino to make some adjustments and opted to print a much larger sticker for my finished cut.
The lines that form the pattern were too thin to hold together properly and the whole thing broke apart at the first cut. Once the cut was finished I taped the top of the surface in order to carefully remove it. I placed the vinyl sheet into the cutter, taking measurements made by the machine to properly dimension the scrap material for the cut, rather than measuring the shape by hand. These were the settings that worked best for my material on the vinyl cutter. Positioning the vector image in Easy Cut Studio and setting the parameters of the cut. I then transferred the vector image into Easy Cut Studio, to finalise the size of the cut and the parameters of the machine. When I was satisfied that all the curves were properly joined I made a small test cut.
After doing this I transferred the vector image to Rhino to make editting easier. I dropped the pattern into illustrator and used the 'trace' tool to turn the raster image into a vector image that would be possible to cut. It is said that the sizes of the spaces left between each circle are equal to the spaces between the tones and semi-tones found in Western music. I opted for 'the flower of life', a piece of sacred geometry consisting of several overlapping circles. My background is as a musician and I use my laptop to produce music, so something music themed seemed appropriate, however I wanted a design that was more complex than a simple note or instrument design. I began by selecting a design I wanted to cut. Many of the examples I had seen were laptop stickers, so I opted to do this so I could focus more on the group project and my plans for the laser cutting assignment. When I started working on the vinyl cutting portion of this weeks assignment I was unsure of what I wanted to make.
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