{"id":46,"date":"2011-11-01T23:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T23:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenstar.co\/wp\/?p=46"},"modified":"2015-09-19T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T01:06:13","slug":"butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fenstar.co\/wp\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first joined the invention studio, most of the machines were a bit overwhelming, but I found the laser cutter to be quite user friendly. It could use just about any file, materials for it were cheap, and best of all, as long as you used a little common sense it posed no danger at all. Just watch your part, stop the job if anything goes wrong, and don’t cut anything that gives off toxic gasses.<\/p>\n

I decided to make a 3D “puzzle” using mat board, and you can see the result. I was fairly pleased with how it turned out, and although it was largely an artistic rather than engineering endeavor, it got me familiar with the machine and I learned a lot. It wasn’t long before I was one of the go-to guys when someone needed help with the laser.<\/p>\n

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I started with an image of a butterfly I had taken previously as a template, and added a\u00a0few extra details to compensate for the reduction of a 3 color pallet. (Without the extra blue spots on the upper wing, it looks a bit bland.)\u00a0\u00a0\"Butterfly-source-mod\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From there I took the image into Inkscape and used the trace bitmap function. Unfortunately I didn’t really get the result I wanted, but it wasn’t to hard to create\u00a0the vectors by hand over the image because the shapes are so simple.<\/p>\n

Once that was done, it was trial and error to find the best cut settings and offsets that resulted in a snug fit. The kerf with of the laser is quite small, but for a tight fit, it had to be accounted for.<\/p>\n

Below are a few different photos showing how it was made, and how it fits together.
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