A memeber of our hackspace will move to another city, we decided to go hiking together. I thought it’s a good idea to make a special and unique gift for him. But which kind of gift?
I know he likes Math, so the idea of the bottle opener design from WAZER website with a math equation on it came to my mind. Euler’s identity is used because it’s simple and beautiful and not so big and long.
Here’s the result:
I wrapped it in a piece of tissue paper. After we walked a while I pulled the gift out of my backpack and said “I made a small gift for you” and passed it to him.
“Let me guess”, “Something made of metal?” He tried to figure it out while unwrapping the paper.
“Ah, e to i Pi plus 1 equals zero!”
“Do you like it?” I asked.
“Yes, of course. Thank you!” He replied.
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I first downloaded the DXF in this page:
Then imported it into Inkscape to edit, but strangely I can’t ungroup the whole drawing thus can’t delete the “WAZER” texts.
Open it in LibreCAD, no luck:
QCAD interpreted the drawing correctly:
- Deleted “WAZER” and saved the file.
- Imported this file into Inkscape.
- Googled a hand-written Euler’s identity image and also pasted it in Inkscape.
- Traced the equation with the “Draw freehand lines” tool (“Create BSpline path” option selected and used 40 as the “Smoothing” value ).
- Fine tuned the lines with the “Edit paths by nodes” tool.
- Imported to WAM
- Cut (Material: Stainless steel 304, thickness: 2.5mm)
Here you can see the first part I got, not quite well. I realized I forgot to count the kerf size in!
Counted the kerf size in and did a quick analyzation, adjusted some strokes. Finally I got a beautiful cut!
SVG file attached.
