Thursday, 26 November 2009

Further to the concrete foundations not being made from thick enough plastic, we opted to design and cut a lattice structure from 2mm thick acrylic on the laser cutter, this will ensure that the profiles will be accurately cut. We will then clad it in 2mm thick styrene to ensure that any deviations in the alignment of the profiles will not be picked up as it was on the previous model.







The concrete profiles which were cut out from 2mm acrylic on the laser cutter. Assembly was crisp for one the structure which I assembled, for the other which Tom assembled the laser settings were slightly different so the profiles required a piece of 0.5mm styrene to pack them.