Very good, congrats...I've been tthinking about a project using layered wood, maybe it could be for your interest because is a little diferent from the classics squared flat works. Thinking about the support body of a lamp, lamp for living room for example....If many layers of wood give shape to the base body of the lamp, a very special shape could be obtained if the different layers of wood are cut in a way that allows to see some interesting pattern that would be seen laterally and illuminated by the light of the same lamp, of course this base body would have to be fitted with a screen ad hoc to the design of the body or vice versa....it´s only a suggestion.
can i ask what is your favourite software (easy to use an create) new designs, maybe even a little tutorial if its possible, stuff you make is awesome. but rather make and sell something of my own than rip designs from someone else, as you propably understand. keep up the great work. best regards from eindhoven ( the netherlands)
Thank you so much for the kind words!! And I do understand, for me, more than half of the fun is the design process and the rest comes from building and having the art afterwards. For 3D designs I use SolidWorks and for 2D designs I use Inkscape, and for many projects I’ll use both to add etching details in Inkscape onto parts I designed in SolidWorks. Inkscape is easy to learn, it’s free, and there are a lot of tutorials both built in and online - highly recommended. SolidWorks is something I use in my day job as a mechanical engineer and it’s become an extension of my own arm essentially haha, but it does cost money. Fusion360 is a very powerful and free alternative that could have made all of the designs you see in my channel. Best of luck on your journey of creating art! Stay in touch and let me know what you make :)
Great question! I made myself an insert to go in the window that is right behind the laser cutter and I have a 6” AC Infinity fan that pulls the air through the glowforge and out of the window. I’ve disabled the internal fan because it is so loud. The external fan is much quieter and effective. I don’t get any escaping fumes with my setup which has been great!
I’m glad you like it! I am actually in the process of making the digital files of it and my other designs available for purchase over the course of today and tomorrow. So they will be available soon! Probably $5 for all the files and instructions.
Nice design! Really like the intricacy that emerges from the simple units, when layered. Also like the steps you took to break up the over-regularity of your grid. Three things: What is the name of the command (or what is the basic process) for applying a gradient to the stroke width in Inkscape? I never realized that was possible. At some point, I'd also like to see a bit more detail on how you thought through the joints for the two parts of each layer. My tendency would be to offset them more, so the weak spots are less stacked in the same band across the piece. I'd also like to see how your venting system is set up. Did you add fans? Did you incorporate filters? I'm also in an apartment, and will soon have my laser cutter. I need some serious venting and filtration, here, because of prevailing breezes and arrangement of neighbors' windows. Thanks again for this video. Please keep 'em coming!
Thank you so much for the compliments and questions! 1. To my knowledge there isn't a command for the gradient to stroke width, unfortunately. Although I'm not an inkscape master yet either. The way I did it was to rotate the entire piece so that I could drag a box around each row and manually raise/lower the stroke width. It didn't take too long for the amount of rows that the design had. 2. Totally, I wished that I could have spaced them out further away from the center as well. I was unfortunately limited by the cutting size of my laser cutter and if the split line moved closer to one side then the other piece would either get too large or I'd need to split the layer into 3 pieces - and I wanted to avoid as many splits as possible. In the end the splits are closer than I'd like but there is still plenty of overlap to require wood to split plus have a glue failure in order to have a big problem, and not just a single glue failure. 3. Yeah I made/designed my own venting setup. I printed a 4"->6" adapter from the Glowforge to a 6" flex tube, that connects to a 6" AC Infinity fan, another flex tube to a 3D printed shut off gate, and that pokes through a laser cut wood piece that seals to the window cavity. No added filters, and the internal fan of the Glowforge is turned off. Overall the setup is much quieter than the stock Glowforge and has better airflow.
Turned out great- the wood dye process is a super helpful tip!
Thanks! Glad you were able to take something from the video :)
Very good, congrats...I've been tthinking about a project using layered wood, maybe it could be for your interest because is a little diferent from the classics squared flat works. Thinking about the support body of a lamp, lamp for living room for example....If many layers of wood give shape to the base body of the lamp, a very special shape could be obtained if the different layers of wood are cut in a way that allows to see some interesting pattern that would be seen laterally and illuminated by the light of the same lamp, of course this base body would have to be fitted with a screen ad hoc to the design of the body or vice versa....it´s only a suggestion.
This is amazing,thank you so much for sharing, if you don’t mind, could you please tell me where did you get this bgm?
Working with limitations, I LOVE IT! Lookin great my man!!
Thank you Corbin! I appreciate the love
This is amaaaazing
That turned out really nice
Thank you for the appreciation!
Really beautiful work!
Thank you very much!
this is stunning!! please keep making more!!
Thank you Sheri! I will :)
Suggestion for thickness of each layer...?
can i ask what is your favourite software (easy to use an create) new designs, maybe even a little tutorial if its possible, stuff you make is awesome. but rather make and sell something of my own than rip designs from someone else, as you propably understand. keep up the great work. best regards from eindhoven ( the netherlands)
Thank you so much for the kind words!! And I do understand, for me, more than half of the fun is the design process and the rest comes from building and having the art afterwards. For 3D designs I use SolidWorks and for 2D designs I use Inkscape, and for many projects I’ll use both to add etching details in Inkscape onto parts I designed in SolidWorks. Inkscape is easy to learn, it’s free, and there are a lot of tutorials both built in and online - highly recommended. SolidWorks is something I use in my day job as a mechanical engineer and it’s become an extension of my own arm essentially haha, but it does cost money. Fusion360 is a very powerful and free alternative that could have made all of the designs you see in my channel. Best of luck on your journey of creating art! Stay in touch and let me know what you make :)
Beautiful
Thanks so much Karen!
What wood are you using and the thickness ?
Nice art thanks for sharing I'll try this
Thank you! Let me know how it goes Avinash
Beautiful and so creative may have to do this with mine 💖
Go for it! Let me know how it goes for you and thank you for the kind words.
Do you provide services to convert images into layered wood art vectors?
Cool 😎 👍
Thanks Wolfram!
Keep making videos bro
As you are in an apartment , how do you filter the air from your laser
Great question! I made myself an insert to go in the window that is right behind the laser cutter and I have a 6” AC Infinity fan that pulls the air through the glowforge and out of the window. I’ve disabled the internal fan because it is so loud. The external fan is much quieter and effective. I don’t get any escaping fumes with my setup which has been great!
"artpiece set up to comemorate hexagone " XD
I know you wouldn't give me the dxf file of that amazing Design you did!! 🌚😄
I’m glad you like it! I am actually in the process of making the digital files of it and my other designs available for purchase over the course of today and tomorrow. So they will be available soon! Probably $5 for all the files and instructions.
@@engineeredrelics would really appreciate it and waiting for it!! Thanks a lot again!! 🙏
The digital files for this design are now live! You can find them at my website here, enjoy! www.engineeredrelics.com/store/p/4-layer-hexagon-wall-art
Nice design! Really like the intricacy that emerges from the simple units, when layered. Also like the steps you took to break up the over-regularity of your grid. Three things:
What is the name of the command (or what is the basic process) for applying a gradient to the stroke width in Inkscape? I never realized that was possible.
At some point, I'd also like to see a bit more detail on how you thought through the joints for the two parts of each layer. My tendency would be to offset them more, so the weak spots are less stacked in the same band across the piece.
I'd also like to see how your venting system is set up. Did you add fans? Did you incorporate filters? I'm also in an apartment, and will soon have my laser cutter. I need some serious venting and filtration, here, because of prevailing breezes and arrangement of neighbors' windows.
Thanks again for this video. Please keep 'em coming!
Thank you so much for the compliments and questions!
1. To my knowledge there isn't a command for the gradient to stroke width, unfortunately. Although I'm not an inkscape master yet either. The way I did it was to rotate the entire piece so that I could drag a box around each row and manually raise/lower the stroke width. It didn't take too long for the amount of rows that the design had.
2. Totally, I wished that I could have spaced them out further away from the center as well. I was unfortunately limited by the cutting size of my laser cutter and if the split line moved closer to one side then the other piece would either get too large or I'd need to split the layer into 3 pieces - and I wanted to avoid as many splits as possible. In the end the splits are closer than I'd like but there is still plenty of overlap to require wood to split plus have a glue failure in order to have a big problem, and not just a single glue failure.
3. Yeah I made/designed my own venting setup. I printed a 4"->6" adapter from the Glowforge to a 6" flex tube, that connects to a 6" AC Infinity fan, another flex tube to a 3D printed shut off gate, and that pokes through a laser cut wood piece that seals to the window cavity. No added filters, and the internal fan of the Glowforge is turned off. Overall the setup is much quieter than the stock Glowforge and has better airflow.