Autumn Picnic – Brotzeitbrettl
Instruction
A typical Bavarian way of a picnic is a “Brotzeit”. Some bread, tasty Bavaria sausage, ham or cheese, some salad and radish, served on a “Brotzeitbrettl”, a wooden board. This project is the take-away-version of a Brotzeit. If you go hiking in the alps and want to take your original Brotzeit with you, this is a solution. A wooden board with a space for a stainless steel box which can contain the salad and radish.
My box had rounded corners so it is also important to measure the radius of the corners.
We cannot use the rectangle with the rounded corners from the integrated shapes in XCS here. So we create four circles and two rectangles in the way the picture shows. We will later use the combine function to unite these geometries but let’s keep them for a while separated.
The box should be positioned at the side of the board. With my box it was perfect to have the box 1cm from the left edge of the board. It looks good, if we keep the same distance to the top and bottom, only the right side is some centimetres away.
It looks better, if the board also has rounded corners. Note that we should use a larger diameter for those circles. If we want to have a frame for the box that has the same width at every point, the circles need to share a common centre. So for our 1cm frame the circles must be 1cm more in their radius or 2cm more in their diameter.
The construction looks like in the picture. You can see how the circles overlap.
Now it is time to combine the geometries. First select the two larger rectangles and the four larger circles and combine these into one rectangle with rounded corners. Then repeat the same for the box-rectangle.
It is time to decorate the board. I decided to use another rectangle with rounded corners and a text, but of course you can use whatever you prefer here. For the text I used the Dancing Script font, applied a curve to the text, welded it and finally turned the text a little bit.
We need one layer with both rectangles and the decoration, one with the two rectangles but without decoration and one only with the outer rectangle. You can mark everything (CTRL+A), copy this to the clipboard (CTRL+C), add a new worksheet and paste everything here (CTRL+V). Now delete what you do not need here.
Note: On larger machines like the D1 with extensions or P2 you could also copy everything to the same workspace and arrange the geometries.
I use 4mm/s at 95% for cutting the rectangles and 60mm at 80% for scoring my decoration.