Designing Waffle

03.06.19

Taking the original form I made In Rhino I transformed it into this waffle frame form. it took me a while to get my head around how to do it but once I got the hang of it I was flying through. The next step was to explode it and lay it all flat for laser cutting.

After taking into account for broken pieces and potential stuff ups I laid out all the components. When creating a waffle . it is important to leave space for each piece to slot in, In this case the material I am using is 3mm thick plywood so I made sure to make each slot 3mm wide. I will be taking this to the laser cutter tomorrow, so hopefully all goes well.

I also had to adjust the size of the kerf board. My last attempt was successful in the fact that the cuts allowed the wood to bend however it was much too long and out of scale. I have also increased the amount of shapes, upping it from 3 to 9 to make it bend sharper….. Hopefully!

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