hi in this video i'm gonna show you how to edit the lithophane photo into hexagon shape
plus adding all of the edges that could fit into this frame.
This is for my lithophane light panel project.
in order to make the lithophane photo into the shape like this
you will need my hexa photo blender file let's open it
in the file you're gonna see two meshes the first one is the hexagon168
which you use to cut the flat photo rectangle photo usually into the hexagon shape
and then the other one is to add the 0.8 millimeter thickness edges around the photo
let's import your photo
okay yeah and to make the stl that is ready for 3d printer there are some settings in blender
uh in the unit and i already have one video about it you can check on that
uh to make sure that the stl file that you import and export in and out of blender is gonna be
easy to process with 3d printer
here you have the photo
the first step uh i want to cut it into the hexagon shape and choose your photo add a modifier here i choose boolean
okay use the fast instead of itself because they're gonna save you a lot of time and uh
in the mode i'm gonna choose it intersect because i want to cut the rectangle into the hexagon shape
and then with the object choose the hexagon168 give it sometime. now you have it
the second step is that we want to add these edges around the hexagon so that it can fit into this frame so what
we can do is we can export the photo and the frame 0.8 at the same time and the same stl file so
how to do that you can choose the photo then also choose the frame okay into the file export stl and
here remember to check the selection only check box and then you can export the stl uh you can
check that sdl file with whatever slicer you have i use a prusa slicer and i'm gonna add the photo
right now for my project i use 0.2 uh millimeter layers and infill 100%. it turned out great.
and here you have the file slide let's go all over the layers to make sure that everything is correct
okay and you see the size of it. the biggest side is 174 which is the size to
fit my project so using this method you already have the file ready for the lithophane light panel
for each light panel you will need half meter of the led strip
the led strip frame the little photo and the photo frame if you don't want to
print the little one photo you can use my photo.stl file it's a flat photo
so it works at the diffuser when you have all of the components you can put them all together
to secure the led strip on the frame you can use hot glue here at the endings of the led strip then
you can arrange your modules on the wall according to your pattern to attach them to the wall i use
the command potter strip which is very easy to remove when i need to change my pattern later
and the double clip is used to fix the connecting cable between modules
the final step is adding the controller and the power supply to your panels it depends on what
kind of led strip that you use i use the 2812b and the bluetooth controller so that i can use my
cell phone as a remote control there's many choices out there so pick whatever you feel like and enjoy
if you have any question let me know in the comments and i will try to help.
happy making