[HN Gopher] Boxes.py - Create boxes and more with a laser cutter ___________________________________________________________________ Boxes.py - Create boxes and more with a laser cutter Author : ale42 Score : 24 points Date : 2022-09-09 11:56 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (festi.info) (TXT) w3m dump (festi.info) | paulhart wrote: | Internet Archive version: | https://web.archive.org/web/20220809073511/https://festi.inf... | | Github.io: | https://florianfesti.github.io/boxes/html/generators.html | | Also see the Hackaday Project: | https://hackaday.io/project/10649-boxespy | icyfox wrote: | I first used a laser cutter ~eight years ago. Our printer's UX | relied on sending designs with special colors to an attached usb | driver. So you'd make something in Illustrator, open a regular | print dialogue, and get out a precisely cut acrylic piece a | minute later. It was pretty incredible. | | This was back in college so we had a manufacturing lab that was | chock full of them. They're a bit harder to find in the wide | world - but highly recommend the experience if you can get your | hands on one. | lightedman wrote: | Any Chinese K40 Laser Engraver paired with K40 Whisperer works | exactly this same way. Red for cutting, blue for engraving, | black for raster-sweep printing. This is how I run my setup. | lightedman wrote: | This is neat, but there should be a place to add in the parameter | for the thickness of the material being used. I tend to default | to 2.5mm hardboard, other people use 3mm or 4mm MDF, so it makes | the fitting much better. | | EDIT: Oh, it's the second set of parameters halfway down. I feel | that should be one of the first things you should have to input. | Ninjinka wrote: | Hug of death? | Glench wrote: | Have to plug my friend's box generator which lets you draw these | kinds of projects visually and then tweak/export parameters in | real-time to see how the design changes: | https://cuttle.xyz/@toby/Closed-Box-with-Finger-Joints-blQZf... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-10 23:00 UTC)