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19th feb – This week I still seem to have dice on the mind, so I went back into solid works and worked on the 2D pieces for a dice. immediately i found myself with the first problem.
what joints? so i did some research and found a couple of websites that could help
- https://www.instructables.com/id/Joinery-Joints-for-Laser-Cut-Assemblies/
- https://lasercutlikeaboss.weebly.com/uploads/2/7/8/8/27883957/advancedjoinery_master_web.pdf
I quickly decided on key joints which are additional pieces that slot into the main face pieces. this meant I only needed to do one of each piece in Solideworks as all sides would be the same and there would be no changes in pieces unlike if i used something like finger joints which could vary pieces to piece.
Dice pieces
It also means i assembly is less like a puzzle trying to find the exact piece to fit into another
20th feb – I made the first dice out of card and noticed some issues.
issues when it came to assembly, Keys were hard to fit into the joint slots when it came to the last few pieces to be Assembled I didn’t consider the card wasn’t a appropriate marital for the scale i was working at. it easily bent and crushed in my fingers.
21st feb – once done with the new dice I used the parameters to work out the bumps and made it so i could adjust one slot and it all the others would change and also made it so i could adjust the size of the howl dice and it would reposition the slots equally apart.
24th feb – Once done I felt the common cube dice wasn’t enough and the fab lab wasn’t available to start using the vinyl cutter so I decided to make mark “the 12 sided dice”. I had no clue what angle the keys would need to be and how assembly would go but I new it had 12 sides and made of pentagons so that was enough. I went back to Solidworks with my knowlage and sketched a pentagon and added some key slots just like i did with the first dice. I had to leave for work so i couldn’t continue today whats unfortunate as i wanted to get a test cut done.
I later just made a assembly to test it and found everything seemed good so i could cut it properly tomorrow.
25th feb – Everything was all set to cut so I loaded the DXF to a laser cutter as soon as possible and cut the pieces on 2mm MDF and started assembling. all seemed well and the pictures of the final product is on the page.
