Thinking Out of the Box
This is the designing step for the cardboard box. We used coral draw to design the 13in by 10in by 5in box. Using the 2-point line tool, the measuring tool, and copy and paste. I was able to design a box that would be 13in by 10in by 5in and that would fit together. The photo above failed because it was to big for the cardboard, it also failed because the bottom was to big and some of the notches on the bottom were to big to fit in the sides.
When re-cutting I moved the bottom of the box to a new file so the sides could cut perfectly and so that the bottom could cut properly. The photo above shows the sides of the box. When I cut this it worked perfectly.
This is the bottom of the box. I moved it to a new file so that they both files would fit in the cutter on. I also had to do some resizing on the notches so that they would fit properly in the sides.
IMG_0032.MOVIMG_0045.MOVIMG_0053.MOVThis is the video of the Small Epilog laser cutter using a vector cut, which cuts through the cardboard rather than a raster which engraves, with a frequency of 25, a speed of 15, and a power of 100. The box was too big so I had to separate the bottom from the sides. After cutting the sides I saw that they fit together perfectly and continued to cut the bottom of my box, two of the notches in the bottom that would fit into the sides were too big so I had to re-cut the piece. I was able to fix the problem by adjusting the length of the notches.
IMG_0059.MOVIMG_0056.MOVIMG_0070.MOVThese are time lapses of me assembling the box and hot gluing it together. At the start of the process, I had trouble getting the pieces to a point where they would stay together to be hot glued, Ms. Morrow helped me and some of my classmates that were also struggling with the problem by telling us to use painters tape. The painter's tape would give the pieces enough support to hold giving me the time needed to hot glue the pieces together, and the tape was weak enough so that it would not take any cardboard with it
This is the silhouette studio design of my sticker that I would cut using a vinyl cutter. I used the text tool to type out my name everyone need their last name, since my last name is Smith, I added my first name, Jed. To give the box some personality with our on sticker. I choose the skyline of the Teton's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I copy and pasted a image from google and than used the trace feature on silhouette studio to trace a outline that would cut into a sticker.
This is the final project of the sticker. The right photo shows the fully weeded vinyl sticker. The left two photos show the weeded stickers cut into two stickers, so I could place them on the box separately. The photos on the left also show the stickers with transfer tape on them, transfer tape is used to transfer them from their more safe location on the vinyl to where the sticky side is exposed. It allows you to make the transfer easier and faster. One problem I had was that not all of my name would go with the transfer tape some of the letters would stay on the vinyl, Ms. Morrow helped me smooth out the bubbles and get it to where all letters of my name went on the transfer tape.
This is the finished project. The photos on the left show the box fully glued together. The photo on the right shows the vinyl sticker placed on the box.