Awesome pieces and I love the ending! Humor keeps us healthy.

@InteractiveRealm

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.. and yeah I do try to add some kind of comedy especially on the longer videos.. they're not all gold but better than not trying at all.

Those are very nice , funny ending , love it.

@InteractiveRealm

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice work combining the materials....looking forward to investigating similar stuff on my GF.

@InteractiveRealm

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! So many things you can try create with the Glowforge. One of my favorite purchases.

Those look great! I want to make some.... (life in Phoenix...or??) LOL i remember those dust storms well.

@InteractiveRealm

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure how I missed your comments.. but Thanks! And yes in Phx.. Surprise, actually.

What were your laser settings for your engrave? I'm trying to do something similar but can't get my engrave deep enough. Did you do multiple passes?

@InteractiveRealm

3 ай бұрын

You should be able to achieve the depth in one pass, though it depends on your lasers power. Using 1/8th acrylic, you only need to engrave half the depth on each side and sandwich the acrylic in the middle. I dont have exact settings but if you're using a glowforge basic or pro, the basic engrave setting should get you what you need.. maybe with some adjustments.

Nice. I’d like to seen how you made the program for the pieces. New to laser and don’t have those skills yet

@InteractiveRealm

5 жыл бұрын

It's really just about tracing an image by adding vector shapes on top of it. So for the wave, I found an image of the ocean and another image of a wave and started adding shapes to makes an artistic version of the images. I was limited on colors so I used the closest colors I had. The AZ flag was pretty much the same, but easier as there where a lot of straight lines. The hard part is setting up the shapes for the laser. I have shapes for cutting the colored acrylic, shapes for engraving the plywood which are the same shapes as the colors but is basically like a border so it only engraves the edges and then another set of the same shapes with a slightly larger perimeter for cutting the plywood so the color fits within the holes. Plus the plywood has to be copied and flipped in order to do both sides. It doesn't make for a very interesting video though. What laser do you have? Feel free to email me questions if you want. My email is in the about tab on my channel page here.

Looks great, but why would you have it engrave and then cut right over the engrave lines? Wouldn't it save time to bypass the engrave step?

@InteractiveRealm

5 жыл бұрын

It's not cutting over the engraving.. it's right next to it. The engraving makes a lip on the inner side of each frame to hold/sandwich the acrylic pieces in place.

@RyanNiemer

5 жыл бұрын

@@InteractiveRealm AHHHHHH, got ya, makes sense lol. My forge should be here next week and I'm going to try something like this, but I'll probably try to pour some resin in the holes. Thanks for the info though, great work

@InteractiveRealm

5 жыл бұрын

@@RyanNiemer keep me updated on your project. I'm in GF forums as well under jetzel

Do you have these instructions written out? I can't figure out how you got the acrylic to sit on the wood without falling through. It looks etched then cut, or the outline was cut thicker for the back?

@ivory6418

2 жыл бұрын

I just saw the answer below! 🤣

@InteractiveRealm

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have them written... but basically front and back are the same (back is obviously flipped horizontal) but each cut out is also engraved creating a little lip around the cut. The depth of the engrave is half the width of the plywood. Plywood and acrylic are both 1/8th thick. So engravings are 1/16th thick. But combine each side together it creates a space for the acrylic to set into making not fall out.

How do you set up the acrylic cuts so that they fit perfectly in the openings without falling through? I tried to do something similar using an inkscape vector image so the acrylic pieces matched up to the cuts in the wood but they were a slight bit smaller so they fall through.

@InteractiveRealm

5 жыл бұрын

On each of the plywood sides I engrave about a 1/16th edge around each of the cutouts for the acrylic. Then I make my acrylic pieces about 1/16th larger to fit within the engraving. This way each of the plywood sides sandwich the acrylic pieces. I only glue on the plywood between the acrylic. So no glue should be seen on the acrylic pieces if you're careful when gluing.

@sharadkumar4033

Жыл бұрын

@@InteractiveRealm How do you "Then I make my acrylic pieces about 1/16th larger to fit within the engraving."? I am trying to use Inkscape to do it, but it doesn't scale irregular shapes in order to get a 1/16 inch all around. Can you help? Thx.

@InteractiveRealm

Жыл бұрын

@Sharad Kumar I don't use Inkscape but it's not about scaling, I would use offset (or perhaps an outline) to extend the shape in all directions. Hope that helps.

@sharadkumar4033

Жыл бұрын

@@InteractiveRealm Thx. What software program do you use for offset?

@InteractiveRealm

Жыл бұрын

@Sharad Kumar I use a program that came with my vinyl cutter called "sure cuts a lot" but honestly I hate it.. but im but just used to it lol.