Alright so since the last post, I got the design loaded into the fusion slicer and fooled around with the settings for a while. I quickly found that you can’t do much in the slicer without knowing exactly how large and thick your material is and since I was planning on making mine out of recycled cardboard it was tricky to estimate. So after looking around for a bit, I found a few sizable pieces of 1.5-ply cardboard in the back of the collab lab, which I could then clean and prep. After all that I spent a few hours at the laser cutter cutting all 34 pieces since none of the cardboard pieces were large enough to fit all 34 and all were different sizes, I had to import them into Inkscape and size them onto individual files. after everything was cut out I spent about 4 ish hours organizing, fitting, and gluing every piece, the process would’ve been a lot faster if the fusion slicer had included all of my dowel holes but unfortunately it would skip every other part. but after lots of wood glue and constant consultation with the assembly simulator, it was finally done ish. despite my best efforts a single piece was oriented incorrectly throwing the entire pattern off which really sucks so I’ll probably end up cutting the entire thing in two and removing and remaking that one part, the dowel problem just meant I had to spend twice as much time orienting every piece instead of slotting them as intended. but yeah it turned out a lot larger than I expected but I kinda like it. the images that I have currently aren’t great because I took them immediately after finishing the assembly but I’ll see about taking some nicer ones in a bit.
Update after critique:
After getting yalls opinions I went back and took two contours of the design (one on each side) to make a stand sort of holder. I haven’t been able to make these yet however since the red acrylic I was hoping to cut them out of hasn’t arrived yet. Once it gets here and I can cut out the stands I can measure the parallel distance and design a base plate for them to sit in and hold their hand up properly.
the contours of the tops of these fit into specific layers (#6 and #25) of the hand to hold it upright.
I really like how you used cardboard to make the hand! It makes it look super cool when looking at it from above. Do you plan on retrying this project with a different material?
Opinion: I think it might be really cool to mount the hand onto either a stand with a stick coming up so the hand is higher up or hanging it from something using clear fishing line.
Opinion: it could be interesting to hollow out part of the inside so you could hold it similar to a foam figure. overall I enjoy the overall shape created and am impressed you created this in seperate layers.
I really like how it came out larger than a typical hand because it shows more detail. I was also struck by the different patterns that the corrugation created.