Miniature pallet
My local hackerspace hackalot’s lasercutter recently became functional again. This ofcourse needed to be tested. So I decided to make a few cute miniature pallets.
![Cargo](/_astro/cargo.Ccdl6BaS_Z12nLQl.webp)
The end result is really cute, and its (nearly) to scale of a real europallet. To create the cutting stencils, I cheated by downloading an existing 3D model which is to-scale. Blender has simple and easy to use boolean actions, which allow me to cut the 3D pallet into sections.
![Blender boolean action](/_astro/blender_bool.Dws9KiyM_2a8Dxq.webp)
![Blender UV unwrap](/_astro/blender_UV.CCX83Jqi_2giUuK.webp)
With the pallet cut into virtual planks, Its very trivial to simply select all top faces and create a small UV unwrap. Which can then be exported as a SVG image.
![Lasercutter](/_astro/cutting.KkTWXXr5_FLyTa.webp)
Then all that is left, is some glue.
![Stacked](/_astro/stacked.DkUU2-Bj_v3qoQ.webp)