Topographic Map Laser Cut

Digitally designed, laser cut from sustainable bamboo, and hand built. And i’m going to lay it all out for yall, with links to the full set of plans and illustrator files on my patreon page, so a huge. With your glowforge 3d laser printer, your map can homage to a meaningful place, vacation, or moment in time.

Just glue each layer one at a time (you did lay them out in order, right?), using the scored lines as a guide. Calculate the scale of your map, then determine what 1/8th of an inch is relative to your elevation (for example, maybe 1/8th of an inch on your model will correlate to 1000' in the real world). St john us virgin islands topographic map.

I can get it grouped fine, but that’s where his tutorial starts to be a little too vague (because it seems the process is pretty subjective to the map you’re working with).

I’m about midway through this for the first time, and can’t figure out how to smooth out the groupings to make it look as clean as his. Behold the world at a glance with larger than life laser cut topographic maps. This is a two part guide, one that explains the workflow on qgis and one that goes through the process on adobe illustrator to make the files ready for the laser cutter. I particularly enjoy bringing these themes to bear with the applications of map data, lasers, fine woods, and craft fabrication.