North Carolina State Parks Map

Dimensions

Places

Widthmmin

Outside of the frame. 381 × 279 mm is 15 × 11 inches, which cuts from 12 × 16 inch sheets.

Heightmmin

Markers

In the 3D preview

Marker shape

Peg sizemmin

Height of each peg and its hole.

Engrave the names

Name outline

Name sizemmin

Height of the capitals on the name tags.

County namesTest mix: half scored, half engraved

Title26/40

On the plaque. Leave empty for no plaque.

Second line0/50

Line on the frame0/60

Engraved along the frame's bottom rail, like the little plate on a picture frame.

Nova Brains card on the back

Dedication on the back0/240

Engraved on the back of the back panel, for whoever takes the board down and turns it over. It is cut with everything else; the panel goes on with that face to the wall.

Title lettering

Backdrop

Frame widthmmin

Frame depth

Layers of rails. 3 is level with the map; 4 stands one layer proud of it, a shadow box.

Keyholes to hang itDesk standCut the markers

Your material

Thicknessmmin

Measure it with calipers. Sheets sold as 3 mm are often 2.7 to 3.2.

Kerfmm

How much the beam burns away. Higher makes joints tighter. 0.10 to 0.20 suits most diode lasers.

Your machine

Keep clear of each edgemm · usable 290 × 290 mm (11.4 × 11.4 in)5 mm suits most machines. If the camera frames less than the whole sheet, or clamps hold its edges, keep more clear so nothing lands outside what the laser can reach.Use smaller sheets where they doOnly the pieces too big for a small sheet go on a full-size one; the rest fill the small sheets. For when the big sheets are the scarce ones.Dark pieces on their own sheetsThe pieces shown in darker wood (a backdrop, a map's backing) get sheets and files of their own, so they can be cut from a darker sheet.

Parts: 0
Sheets: 0
Assembly: Glue

Holding tabs· parts stay in the sheet, snap them outmm

How many to cut

Free with an account. Opens straight in xTool Studio with cut, score and engrave layers, positioned on your bed at real size.

Assembly

1Stain or paint before gluing if you want contrast: the backdrop and the map's backing darker (the backing is what shows through an empty pin hole), the map, plaque and pegs lighter.
2Stand the eight keys in the back panel's slots, then slide each layer of frame rails down over them and glue it: the keys hold every layer in register, and each layer turns the corners the other way so the joints overlap like brickwork. The backdrop then drops into the frame's window onto the back panel; it is cut a hair smaller than the window, so it finds its own place.
3Glue the map to its backing first, on the bench: glue on the backing inside its scored line and outside the small rings round the holes, the map on top, edges flush all round. Stand the three map keys in the backdrop's small slots with a dot of glue (they stay in, hidden under the map), glue inside the map's outline scored on the backdrop, and lower the map and backing down over the keys. Glue the plaque to its backing on the bench, stand its two keys in the backdrop's slots, and lower the pair over them.
4Weight it flat while the glue sets, keeping glue out of the pin holes.
5Press a peg into a park's hole when you've visited it. They're cut to the hole's exact size, so they hold by friction; a dot of glue makes one permanent.
6To hang it, two nails or screws at the keyholes' spacing, heads 2 mm proud of the wall.

North Carolina State Parks Map

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North Carolina State Parks Map

Version

Dimensions

Your material

Your machine

Assembly