As a kid, I loved putting together 3D dinosaur skeleton models made from sheets of thin plywood. You can still buy them, but I wanted the same types of models for material of any thickness and for any 3D model, so I wrote a program in Python to create them (2023). The program can load any STL file, create interlocking slices in chosen directions at variable intervals or locations, and output a DXF file for laser cutting. The images below are laser-cut assemblies created using the program (Labrador and T-Rex STL models) and an example of an input and corresponding output.

Languages used: Python