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This week I kept working on the framed map project. last week I cut out the map itself in cardboard. I noticed a few changes to the design that I wanted to make, some parts of the map were too close together which caused difficulties laser cutting. this week i made the changes I needed to make to the map at the start of the week. I spaced certain islands on the map further apart and also removed the coordinates because they were too close to the name. I was able to lasercut t

This week I kept working on designs for my framed map project. I finished up the design of the map itself at the start of the week. After making sure everything was all set I lasercut the map in cardboard. Once I finished that I realized that I needed to change some things. Some of the parts were too close together. In the middle of the map there is a river that has a lot of islands in it. On the lasercut it seems like the islands clutter it too much and make it hard to cut s

This week I was able to wrap up the CD holder project and move on to start thinking of new project ideas. I lasercut the first part to the CD holder at the end of last week. This week I planned on cutting out two more. I cut out the first piece and realized that I didn't actually need the third piece. my initial intention for the third piece was to make the slots of the holder deeper so that the CDs would stand up and not fall over. I realized that I could get this same effec

This week I kept working on my CD holder project. At the start of the week I tried to export my files from fusion and import them into Inkscape. I was confused at first because Inkscape would not let me import my files. After looking online I found that Inkscape does not like when you try to import files with splines. After discovering this I decided that I would just remake my design using the Inkscape tools. I decided to measure my CD cases to double check my measurements a

This week I continued working on the CD organizer project and started wrapping things up. I started the week by finishing some new designs that I started at the end of last week. Unfortunately there were some issues importing those as DXFs into Inkscape which I think had something to do with the splines after looking it up. After running into these issues I decided to go back to using one of my original designs that was square and did not use the splines. this design imported

This week was very short because we had two snow days at the start of the week but I was still able to get some work done. At the end of last week I had a few designs for my CD holder project. This week I put some finishing touches on the main one and cut out a test in cardboard. The slots look good and look like they will fit the CDs but I didn't like how boring the design was. On Thursday after I lasercut the test in cardboard I starting brainstorming ways to make it more i

This week I started working on a new project. I spent Monday thinking of projects and thinking of things that I could use. I realized I could use something to organize CD cases because I listen to them in my car and at home sometimes and don't have a good way to store them. I started designing late on Monday and thinking of how I wanted to make this. I looked around online for inspiration and found a design I liked. It was a plastic design with some bent edges that I would n

This week i continued working on my birthday card for my mom. I spent the start of the week figuring out what kind of design I wanted to do on the front. i ended up putting a big happy birthday on the top and some images of things she likes like a disco ball and dance shoes. The finished design in CAD Once I was done designing it in CAD I moved it over to Inkscape where I needed to relearn how to do designs and engravings. I used Mr. L's guide for the freshman year locker tag

This week I started looking for small projects to work on while I was waiting for the wood for my stool project. Last week I finished up the snowboard hanger project so I started looking for new ideas this week. I realized that my moms birthday is next week and decided to make a gift for her. I spent Wednesday trying to figure out what I should make her then on Thursday I decided to make her a card. I wanted to add pictures of things she likes so I spent a while figuring out