Waag Society Fablab Amsterdam

Work in Progress

het proces begon met het kopen van ikea doosjes.

vervolgens op zoek gegaan naar een leverancier van Foam

deze gevonden: lejan in amsterdam, levert goede foam tegen een redelijke prijs.

foam geprobeerd te frezen, ging niet wegens te zacht foam.

foam op de lasercutter:

focus iets onder de oppervlakte (0,5 cm)

laatste restjes eruit drukken

CNC FLIP-PART SETUP
composed by Mathieu Pung

PART I 3d Software
1.    Bring your Model into Rhino, SolidWorks, Alias, etc!  I do most of the setup in 3d software since the    
        machining software might change depending on which FabLab you are working in.

BZT settings

[Images will be added later]

For the use of the BZT you need a CNC file or an Illustrator 3
File. Incase of an Illustrator 3 File its better to use Deskproto to
fix a CNC file than to directly load it into winPC-NC. Loading a
Illustrator 3 file into winPC-NC is a buggy and so a time consuming
way to of using the BZT, it looks faster but isn't.

This tutorial is for setting up your file for the usage in
Deskproto. At FabLab Amsterdam we use Illustrator CS3, the images you see are screen captures from Illustrator CS4 so the image may differ.

There are several ways to setup your file we start with the most
simple one.

Lets say you want a square cut out of 200x200mm. We begin with a
new file ( CTRL + N or CMD + N ) the size should be larger than the
shape you want to cut out, but this can be changed later through file
→ document setup ( CTRL + SHIFT P or CMD +SHIFT + P ). 

Our big milling machine is out of order. We'll do our best to repair it within 2 weeks.
I'll post here when its up again

Alex

Image: 

Preview final product

We used the machines to create molds for a couple of handsize gamepieces, custom-made for use on a multitouch table. One of the final products and the actual application look like this:

Creating molds for plastic gamepieces