=== Hexagons ===

- This documentation page is work in progress. Again I've been struggling with image resizing, which is making my prcess a bit clumsy and too long. I will fins a way to streamline the documantation better by next week. -

The next pattern I made is with **hexagons. **It was very fun to work with this shape after the triangles, as it's a multiple of the triangles but has quite different characteristics.

With Rhino I created **3 different designs**, so I could play with the concept of the **"gelosia/celosia" ** (someone help me with this word in English) again, balancing visible with invisible (in Italian, vedo-non vedo).

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When I proceeded to laser cut the patterns, I used the same settings that worked with the triangles:

**Material: felt 1.5 mm**

**Speed: 12**

**Power: 35**

**Time: 20 min for the whole cut**

However, something weird occurred, which I should have checked in detail in advance. The cuts for the interlocks were in the design and were exported in the dxf file, but they didn't come out when I laser cut them :(

After troubleshooting with Oscar, thanks to his help I found out that the reason the lines for the cuts didn't come out was that **they weren't flat on one plane. Because of how I designed them on Rhino, they had changed orientation on the y axis :S**

I tried to add the lines and juxtapose the new file on the older one, which I hadn't moved. In an attempt to be 100% sustainable and avoid wasting material, I spent a bit too much time on this effrot, with the following results…

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After this attempt, I decided to pay a lot closer attention to my files in the future, in order to avoid time suckers. Also I learned about when it's more valauble to start over. Which currency is more important, time or material? This is a debate that always pushes me to attempt recycling things, at the expense of my time.

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I loved playing with the combinations allowed by the 3 designs, and even explored bracelet making as well as 3 dimensional hinging with a small cube :)

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**Useful Links**

[[https://puncturedartefact.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/symbol-hexagon-symbolic-meaning-tattoo-designart-and-culture/|https://puncturedartefact.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/symbol-hexagon-symbolic-meaning-tattoo-designart-and-culture/]]