{0.3} Unfolded and laser ready snail

 Going from left to right we have the laser cutter lines, the water cutter lines, the copper render of the water cutter result, and the rebuilt snail.

and here is the top view of all the flat curves and surfaces from above


while working on this project I found that unfolding the snail was easy enough, assembling it after you add the water cutter kerf however, difficult as all hell. It seemed no matter what I did, flow along surface (FlowAlongSrf) was not working at all at first. After hours of pain and confusion I figured it out... mostly. I found that unrolling the base extrude of the shell I had made after rotating the sides of the shell up by 90 degrees and lining it back up with the flattened body that was now split in half so it would finally work... except when it would flow along the surface in every orientation imaginable except the one I wanted. Sideways, upside down, off into space, glitchy indescribably broken surfaces, I saw it all trying to get this shell to work until eventually it just seemed to work once in a blue moon but eventually I got it (Thank God)



Despite the utter pain and agnony I spent trying to figure out why Flow along surface wasnt working then why it was oriented wrong to the point its the thing i spent 99% of my time on this project on, eventually I did it and powered through.

Here are the final 3D renders of my constructed snail


 

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