Recent content by papfo

Photos of the laser cutter, and new tabs / slots.

Got my laser cutter to mostly work. Played around with the tab slots. Larger holes helped. Was able to put together the soccer ball. Last piece wasn't able to get in. Though building outward should probably make it easier. Added a measure tool, and allow myself to resize the model. Im...

I run a clipping algorithm on both the current piece, and the connected face the tab would glue onto. so tab overlap is not an issue. At least it doesnt seem to be an issue. The paper folding book I was reading would actually put score lines on tabs that overflowed across faces. Not sure that...

Got the laser cutter working. Super happy about that. Tabs and slots seems to work. Although more adjustments need to be made. Currently it seems worse than gluing. I think I need to make the slot holes bigger and the tabs to have more of a lip to them.

Worked on the tabs with slots / inserts. Here is a soccer ball with insert tabs. Going to try and laser cut it out tomorrow.

Worked on a selector box for edges. Not really happy with how usable it is. Took a bit longer to code up than I though it would be. Zoom stopped working for a bit as they are sharing the same mouse events.... Day jobs really get in the way of this stuff... I think im going to limit the...

Don't get too excited. Lots of bugs before I can package it up, and get alpha testers. Probably will offer laser cut patterns until the software is in a more of a finished shape. Still working on the enclosure for this cutter.

On to tab and layout development !

Progress update. Reworked the obj file importer to handle polygons, and not simplify to triangles... Laser cutter is also coming together, hopefully will be able to burn this thing out in a month....

I thought about moving the camera, but im having douts about it, maybe after its in a more completed state. keeping the model position under the cursor while rotating the camera seems tricky.... Im struggling trying to update my threejs distro, and get my trackball controls working again...

Vegas was fun, We ended up doing red rock, and then drove a bit further to this old timey miner town reenactment. kind of kid oriented but reminded me of an abandoned western town. Little too cold to do a lot of walking. I mostly implemented the click and drag, it needs some cleanup though...

Heading to vegas for a friends wedding, and to see some of the sights. Thats the plan Satchmo III , Click on an edge, and then you start dragging to hit nodes that are shown, and then when you hit a node, mark the edge as a cut / join. Then repeat. Nice tutorial. I knew those game assets...

xXDashIVXx pepakura does have a mirror option for doing joins/ marking cuts. I started doing a similar option where I just look for lines with a mm but the z axis is different, Auto identifying the mirror line, and mesh symmetry was something I didn't tackle. If the object doesn't have a...

Google Scholar If you hit a paywall I usually just google the paper, and the school usually has the paper for free. So any angles below 15 or above 160. should probably not have score lines. Ill need to update my export function to use a slider on that. Was wondering if you used blender /...

Im writing this as a web app. So I can use javascript libraries, and it should be cross platform compatible. Im on a mac for development. Ive prototyped with SVGnest - Free and Open Source nesting for CNC machines, lasers and plasma cutters, and got that to work a while back. Have since...