Category Archives: pop-up card stuff

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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Doing a little pop-up card research

My sister had suggested that I go to boards to take a look at the pop-up cards that they had at Borders.  My daughter and I went for a trip. My plan was initially to look for a book on … 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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More on my pop up card project.

I ran across an interesting free e-book called the Fundamentals of Paper Engineering Design by Angel David Guzman of PixelOz Designs A link can be found here: http://pixeloz.deviantart.com/ Going through the book around page 21  the author talks about Blender … Continue reading

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Playing Around with Paper Engineering Pop ups

My wife is in the middle of starting up a business and I’m interested in make a promotional pop-up ad for her. This is sort of cool for me because in my college days my area of focus with kinematic … Continue reading

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