Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Arm Waffle tutorial









Open the body file and delete everything in the file but the arm
Make sure your file units are inches
Using the rotate tool and gumball, position the arm parallel to both the Z and X planes
Create a box around the portion of the arm to delete
Use the Mesh Split to cut the arm
Delete the box and cut portion of the arm
Select the arm and use the Fill All Holes to turn the arm into a closed mesh
Use the BBWaffle adjust the numbers of cuts in both the x and y to CountX =40 and CountY=30
Thickness = .065
Using the text tool, use the simplex text and  number each piece.
Put on layers and export to illustrator
Make sure the material thickness matches the slots before laser cutting