Laser cut Sphere
Cardboard patterns
3D cardboard sketch model
Acrylic prototype
Design in Illustrator
Laser cutting
2 sets of cut components
The images depict the process of designing and producing numbered, flat packable, self supporting, acrylic spheres.
Given a diameter size of 120mm, a cardboard model was used to identify the main construction considerations, while a further prototype in acrylic was produced using a band-saw, to explore the materials behavior.
The design was then translated into Illustrator and "stencil" type face added.
Laser cutting the three main components in 3-mm acrylic took approximately 20 minutes.
To the extent possible under law, plindley has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this Work, Laser cut Sphere.
Comments
Many thanks for taking the time to comment and feedback on this post, I would agree in part with what your saying, this would be the ideal, although that would be the ultimate aim and goal and it could/should hopefully come in time. I think each post should be taken in context.
I think we have to first applauded those that make the first steps in to new open online practices for 'giving it a go'. We can also develop the site into a more wiki style group contributions style site so we make posts open for others to add all those extra elements and enhance the resource. I don't think we should expect every post on sites like this to be perfect as I feel that would put most people off from ever giving it ago or contributing in the future.
Many thanks
Another "I did this!" micro-descriptive posting. It would be more useful if more information were given, such as materials description, source of the laser cutting, problems encountered and how they were overcome, a photo of the completed sphere, etc. I would expect a more complete account of the project from people with a college degree.