Week 8- Hot Sauce package designs

    This week we were assigned to create sketches for 3 different packages for hot sauce. These sketches will be used to create the cut document to send to the laser cutter. To make my sketches I used graphing paper to help with making the sketches to scale. My 3 ideas are a coffin, a sleeve box, and a cylinder that can unroll with a circle that closes it. These are the final sketches for the ideas.

Week 7- Cylinder

        This week some of us were given the task of creating a 3 inch cylinder out of plywood using the laser cutter. To start with, we found the circumference of the smaller circle using C=πd. We used the result of this equation to determine the length of the kerf cutting we would uses to wrap around the circles to create a cylinder. After getting all off the measurements we used Illustrator to create the cutting document for the laser.  To create the kerf cutting, I used the shape builder tool to make a rectangle with the center cut out and a little extender piece. Then I copied and pasted that until it was around the length of the rectangle I had made that was the length of the circumference of the inner circles.After that I used the shape builder tool to make it all one shape. Then I used the shape builder tool again after putting the kerf cutting piece on top of the rectangle to cut it down to that exact length. This was the final result.

Week 6- Crayon Box part 4

 This week we had to turn in the final constructed boxes and their matching crayons. We had to use the digital paper cutter to cut out at least one part of the project so I used it to cut out one set of the crayon wrappers. So the tools that we used were the printer, Illustrator, glue sticks, scissors, glossy paper and plain paper to make and assemble the boxes. I also used my manual cricket cutter. These were the final results.