Eiffel Tower / Cricut first project

[aansorge]

I have been joining many discussions on paper cutters over the years. I have an older model that I think I used once, deciding I preferred the manual scissors method.


Well, my Wife visited my cousin who had a Cricut, and well, now we have one, as well. The obvious projects for such a tool are ships with many life boats and the Eiffel Tower.


Here is my attempt at Kirigami Art's Eiffel Tower available on MediaFire. 3D Eiffel Tower, Paris Origamic Architecture | FREE PATTERN - YouTube

[panzerlite]

Yes... paper cutters are just the thing for repetitive cuts.
The biggest problem I've encountered is registration of the cut to the printed paper.
Printers have a tendency to stretch or shrink the height or breadth of the image they are printing. Getting a cut file to match is troublesome.

I wish you luck with your Cricut, and wish you many enjoyable future builds.
P-lite

[aansorge]

As you say, registration is an issue.


This model Cricut will handle the printing, and the cutting, as its method to minimize the stretching you mention. Have yet to try that feature.


When I drew my Yellow Submarine, I put the cut lines inside the color (texture outline). With the idea that if my cutting was a little off, or if we did get a cutting machine, the registration would be a little forgiving. Now I am trying to figure out how to mix the color layer with the cut line for the Cricut. I might have skipped over one step when reading the manual.

[aansorge]

Since last August, I have wanted to scale the Eiffel Tower to half of the one above. The Cricut was not up to the task of the tiny girders, but the library opened a laser cutter to the public. But even that resulted in burned away girders.


So here is a total redraw, based on pictures from that great resource in the sky, the internet. 7 inches tall.

[Philip]

That's quite something.

[aansorge]

Thanks! You made my day.