Category Archives: HeeksCad

What a tease with the Heekscad parametric equation solver

I spent the evening drawing out by had a pop up box that would open up on a 45 with a top….  After about 4-5 iterations I finally got…. So the next step was to move it to Heekscad and … Continue reading

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DXF Kiss Cut challenges/ using a vibro-etcher to cut card stock.

One of the things that I have been thinking about doing is setting up a parametric equations using heekscad for a generic pop-up shape export it out to DXF for direct import into my sisters pazzle inspiration software. The idea … Continue reading

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Road trip results on the heekscad dxf to pazzle inspiration experiment.

The road trip out to my sister’s was interesting and fruitful. I got to test out my Heekscad generated DXF file to import to the Pazzles software it exposed some issues I need to work through. These are necessarily problems … Continue reading

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Trying out heekscad for my pop-up card project

I ran across some links on reprap blogs about tutorials regarding heekscad. I’ve had my eye on this application for a while, and have been wanting to contribute to the development, but life has sort of getting in the way … Continue reading

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More foundation work on the Pop-up project

Well the paper cutter that I have access too is a Pazzles Inspiration.  Interesting machine.  I’m looking forward to playing with it a bit. The Inspiration uses a WPC file format.  I downloaded a file off the net to peek … Continue reading

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