Cutting the WallsThis week I got help from my dad. In order to cut the walls of the blind I used a router at where my dad works. There are other ways to cut the walls like using a circular saw, but using a router was definitely the most exact and quick way to do it. I did not know how to use the machine so my dad had to show me how to do most of it. The first thing we did was use a program called CAD that tells the machine what to do. This was a relatively straightforward process. This part I definitely could not have done without the help of my dad because I had never used any program like this before now. After measuring the frame of the blind I learned that each of the walls needs to be 44in by 51in. This is slightly off from what I had intended to do, but it should not matter. I set up the program to cut two 44in by 51in pieces out of the sheets that I had. One of the pieces has a hole in the top of it so that I could shoot out of it. I ran the same program on the two sheets that I had, even though I only needed one piece with a hole in it. This is because it was much easier to create one program than two and it did not matter that much if a second wall had a whole in it. Actually cutting the pieces was incredibly easy. Thanks to the machinery I had access to I was able to completely cut the walls out in 15 minutes. All I had to do was slide the two large pieces of plywood into place and then start the machine.
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AuthorI'm Ty and these blog posts are to show off my progress for my Genius Hour project. Archives
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