The first step was to convert all my measurements into the scale of 1:50 as this is the requirement of our brief. In order to do this I took the measurements I took on the day of our gallery site visit and used an online scale converter. I have included a couple of pages of this below..
It actually got quite messy, as I had to make sure that everything was correct.
After doing all of this I could finally get onto creating all of the different pieces in Rino. As the laser cutter prints in 2D on a flat surface I technically have to make all the components of my model into a flat pack and lay them all out. This was quite a tedious process and it took me a while to get my head around it all. Below I have included a photo of what it looks liked laid out.
After triple checking everything lined up and that it would actually fit together, I booked a laser cutting session.
One down side of laser cutting is that when using materials such as MDF it tends to leave scorch marks on the underside. This means in order to use what you have made, you most likely will have to paint it. I decided to keep it simple and spray paint my model pieces white. It took a couple of coats as the MDF soaked up the paint. (also I brought $3 paint from Bunnings, so that probably didn’t help..)
After waiting for my paint to dry I could finally start to assemble my model.
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