Seeing as the first prototype went so well I decided it was time to attempt to lasercut the packaging to get a much cleaner finish. A couple of hours later and a few difficulties on illustrator and I came up with the component layers that I thought i would need for it to be an effective product. I decided to cut it out and see for myself. After doing this I put my attempted to effectively glue my piece together. From this prototype I learnt several things: First of all was that glue was not going to be the best adhesive to use as it took far too long to dry and there was the possibility of parts moving out of place. Second and probably the most important was that the center which was the key area for the locking mechanism was bending inwards on itself because of a lack of support towards the center.
From these issues I modified the central pieces to extend outwards to the center to give it more support and replaced the glue with a double sided tape substitute which will have just about the same amount of strength in this situation. The final models should come out perfect now.
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