I found a schematic type image of the walker. Pulled the image into Inkscape and, essentially, recreated the image in vector form. I could have had Inkscape do its best at finding that for me, but I wanted nice straight lines. The body is scored on both sides. The diagonal mark in the middle of the body is a tiny bit of charred paper I didn’t get cleaned off.
I did NOT expect all of the detail to come through. I put a lot of those lines very close together. The precision of a Glowforge is mind boggling.
I made one for a friend of mine and made a couple of extras to go along with it.
I’m holding it for the picture because I haven’t glued it up yet. It came out pretty nice. The Empire logo is almost transparent. I made a parametric sketch in Fusion 360 so I can make these for any sized object. The logo was engraved after the box cut using the power specs listed in the above link.
I love being able to make things I could only dream of a month ago.
I’m starting to do this for everything that has multiple parts. I’m making a small nativity scene for a coworker and designed it with the parts arranged in a manner where I just slap a box around everything and the GF cuts a tray as the last step. Love this tool!
Oooh I’m stealing the cardboard storage idea for the elegant reindeer as I’m making a few as presents and was just going to throw them in an envelope. Thanks for sharing!
I was thinking of doing the same, but they fit so tightly that I’m not sure they’ll get stored dismantled. I had to put considerable pressure on mine to get the front legs on.
Good point. I’ll be making mine out of 1/8" Baltic and the first set turned out pretty good. I’ll run another test set first before knocking out a bunch. A quick scale adjustment to the deer will fix it if they’re too tight.
