To explore laminated object manufacturing, I created a 6” tall dodecahedron out of 0.12” thick clear acrylic. This project now doubles as an art piece and cupholders for me!
Finally, I labelled and removed all layers from their sheets. I kept them in order, removed the external paper layer, and stacked every layer to construct the dodecahedron.
I first made a 3D CAD model of a dodecahedron using the extrude, draft, mirror, and intersect tools.
I then used an extrude from the top face to cut away 0.12” at a time before exporting each cross-sectional layer as a drawing.
I then organized all 50 generated faces onto three separate sheets of 24” x 36” acrylic aiming to optimize the space used and keep track of which cut corresponds to which layer.
Sheet 1. Layers 1-18
Sheet 2. Layers 19-30
Sheet 3. Layers 31-50
Using CorelDraw, I laser-cut these files out of the stock sheets of acrylic.
