Household Laser Cuts

(cceckman.com)

32 points | by evakhoury 1 day ago

5 comments

  • WillAdams 11 minutes ago
    For more on this in spades see boxes.py

    https://boxes.hackerspace-bamberg.de/

    For my part, I've been working the CNC router angle, so have a much larger kerf to cope with (and the added advantage of controllable partial depth and no char):

    https://community.carbide3d.com/t/full-blind-box-joints-in-c...

    https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

  • kennywinker 14 minutes ago
    Before you go deep on OpenSCAD, consider JSCAD: https://jscad.app/

    Roughly similar capabilities, but you get to use javascript or typescript instead of the linguistic abomination that is OpenSCAD.

  • dofm 1 hour ago
    There is a FreeCAD workbench for this, and it seems to have been restarted recently:

    https://github.com/execuc/LCInterlocking

    Like some of the other older pre-TNP-mitigation plugins it's possible its interaction with those mitigations is quite limited, though my limited understanding is some work has gone into extending the mitigations into objects generated by the Python API in the next version of FreeCAD (26.3 — CalVer now).

  • seemaze 1 hour ago
    I've had great success designing durable objects using the sheet metal modeler in OnShape[0] and have them fabricated with SendCutSend[1]

    [0]www.onshape.com [1]www.sendcutsend.com

  • zacharycohn 2 hours ago
    Calculating kerf is the worst. :(
    • giarc 1 hour ago
      Can you not just cut a 1" square, measure it accurately then use that as the kerf correction (option to add in software like Lightburn).