Cutting
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Things to try
- Do at least one introductory cut-only project
- Try something from Rob Ives
- Map out Rob Ives more thoroughly - what's he got that you can use? - might want to shell out for £28 membership at https://www.robives.com/membership/
- Go through packaging source book and see if can use SVGTracer (see below)
- Try a box from TemplateMaker (see below)
Playing card polyhedra
- George Hart: Card Constructions Templates for 30- and 60-card spheres
- Card Stories: Polyhedra links to
- Zachary Abel's "Poker Faces" with PDF template at https://www.cardstories.co/uploads/6/7/8/0/6780895/poker_faces_-_zachary_abel.pdf
- Andrea Hawksley "6 Card Ball" which also has template
- Making Polyhedra From (Magic) Cards: A Guide - With Templates has a number of things to try
- Make the Platonic Solids Out of Playing Cards has a template, but looks like link may be dead - perhaps worth finding Cory Poole's email?
- Francesco de Comite slide-together on flickr has some templates
- Adrian Rossiter's Antiprism is another approach I could follow.
270 card lampshade notes
Move out 2mm from edge when tranisition from Waddingtons to poker, w.g. 8mm borders instead of 6mm. Width change is 58/58.5 to 63 = 5/4.5 so this means things won't get any less crinkly.
Cards that don't work
- cheap Waddingtons No1 off ebay too weak - they tear both on folding and at corners
- Vasani large index tear at the corners
Useful Links
- Converting packaging images to SVGs with score lines: https://scientiffic.medium.com/svg-tracer-generating-useful-svgs-for-packaging-design-5c344dd14b0b
- TemplateMaker: https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/
Silhouette Portrait 2 Materials notes
It may be that a sharper/newer Autoblade would do better? Although seller said it was relatively new.
Standard tack mat is very sticky to start with but calmed down after 5 or so sheets
Cardstock, 300gsm: Depth 5, Passes 3, Speed 4, Force 33, line segment enabled
- Use depth 5 as can cut through on this so any deeper risks mat dama
- Use 3 passes as 2 doesn't cut all way through if other settings held constant
- Use force 33 as it's definitely better than default of 20
- e.g. if D5, P2, S4 then F33 *nearly* gets through, F20 is nowhere near
- Use speed as it's the default for cardstock and seems to work, but maybe a higher value would also work just as well
- Use line segment as I had lots of corners but this isn't necessarily going to be best for every design