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bmsleight / lasercut

Module for openscad, allowing 3d models to be created from 2d lasercut parts
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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lasercutoutBox() top sides of material are inconsistent #6

Open rogerclarkmelbourne opened 8 years ago

rogerclarkmelbourne commented 8 years ago

I tried to cut a box using lasercutoutBox(), but the outside of the box are sometimes the top of the cut wood and sometimes the bottom.

As laser cutters burn the top side more than the bottom (and invariably there is smoke debris on the top), the boxes look strange as some sides are cleaner than others.

Also if the material is plywood, where the bottom and top of the material are not identical, (quite often plywood has different grades of laminate on the top and bottom), this also makes the box look strange

The work around is to manually modify the DXF output to mirror some of the sides, so that all appear the same way up. i.e arrange your pieces in your favorite DXF editor, so that the box looks like its been mildly exploded and laid flat

dlarue commented 5 years ago

Was this ever patched into the project so the parts were laid out with the box outer surfaces were all up or all down?

bmsleight commented 5 years ago

No, should need a few rotates. Patches welcome.

dlarue commented 5 years ago

ok. I have things like servos I need to cut out of a design and need to add things like a big round clock face attached to the top of the box face so I'm looking around for the tool which lets me do that too.

Would like to do all in OpenSCAD but if not, I can edit the dxf/svg files in Inkscape and add/delete features after the fact.