Week 8: Wooden Cube

This week we started to make our wooden cubes. In this process we have to make sure that the measurements that we have in our files are very accurate because if we make a cut with a laser we can not undo a cut with wood if the cut has already been made. We are using burch wood as our material to make these cubes and we will be using a laser cutter machine to get the percise cuts we need to put all of this together. Before we can use the laser cutter we needed to create our layout using Adobe Illustrator. During this time we have to make sure that the measurements were percise and to be able to do that we need to have a grid and checked off that the snap to grid option was on. Therefore, if we were to make a mistake then we are able to go back and check what went wrong when we tried to put the cube together.

I went through two sets of cubes before I got it right. The first cube that you see was the easiest to create and put together because it did not have any tabs that needed to line up with one another. On this cube all you needed was to make sure that on side of the cube was shorter than the other side to be able to put it together. Keep in mind that the assignment was to make a basic cube, but our professor gave us an extra challenge (extra credit) to those who wanted to make a cube with tabs. This was the cube that gave me a hard time because the first time I printed out the pieces for the tab cube the tabs did not align with each other. The second time I printed it out the tabs were lined up, but the size of the tabs were off. Like they say "third time is the charm"!






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