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<\/a><\/p>\nFor the beginning of the design process I took an existing glass bottle and used a digital caliper to get the dimensions for the wire fittings of the lid. From there I incorporated those dimensions into Illustrator to create a rendering the bottles profile.<\/p>\n
The rendering from Illustrator was exported as an .eps where the profile of the bottle was revolved to create the three dimensional computer model.<\/p>\n The router then milled the file twice to create the two halves of the bottle. This image shows how the CNC machine utilized several tool paths to clear material and then mill a smooth surface.<\/p>\n This image shows how the two parts fit together. The next step will be to glue, sand and polyurethane the positive model and then create a plaster mold off of it for slip casting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *UPDATE<\/p>\n After sanding and applying polyurethane to the positive I decided to take the digital fabrication of my mold a step further. I created a divider where the part lines of the mold would be with laser cut acrylic. Traditionally this would be done with clay but I figured since the positive was digitally fabricated I could utilize that precision to create a divider that was not only more crisp and accurate but would also afford for reuse, if I should decide to cast another mold off of it.<\/p>\n Here is the positive mold in a cottle box with the laser cut acrylic divider.<\/p>\n First half of the mold.<\/p>\n The two parts and pedestal.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n