Cut Intricate Designs for Stencils with the ScanNCut Machine
Opinion by Paid Consultant
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You may or may not know that I design stencils for a big stencil company. Recently, they needed some projects made using the new designs for a trade show, but they didn't have the time to get me the prototypes. What to do?! How can I make projects without any actual stencils?!
Well, I used my ScanNCut to cut the designs! I was a little bit worried about cutting such intricate designs (normally cut by lasers), but I was blown away by how well the ScanNCut handled the designs.
I cut the stencils out of transparencies. Here's an example of a super intricate one:
![StencilDetail1-wm](-/media/XBlog/scanncut/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/StencilDetail1-wm.jpg?h=421.8&w=501.6&hash=AA53818E688DC44B805AFEAA909C92D5)
![StencilDetail2-wm](-/media/XBlog/scanncut/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/StencilDetail2-wm.jpg)
And here you can see it in action:
![AJHexFlowersDetail1-wm](-/media/XBlog/scanncut/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AJHexFlowersDetail1-wm.jpg?h=329.8&w=501.6&hash=3B999F9F62ACC6231A653C09C343982E)
![AJHexFlowersDetail2-wm](-/media/XBlog/scanncut/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AJHexFlowersDetail2-wm.jpg?h=337.2&w=500.8&hash=165BB0DC52DC98DD8B625F0B6ECAEAA0)
![AJHexFlowers-wm](-/media/XBlog/scanncut/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AJHexFlowers-wm.jpg)
Pretty cool to see how easily the ScanNCut can cut a super intricate design out of plastic!
Talk to you next week!