This week I decided to use the OSB board to make a large scale animal.

The process I followed was using an open source CAD of a bear as follows:



I then used the Slicer for Fusion 360 tool to slice it. I experimented with many slicing techniques, and found that the technique of slicing along the longest axis resulted in the least number of slices and easiest assembly. I used dowels to assemble them. The slicer with and without dowels looks as follows:







Slicer is a deprecated software. Rumor has it that Autodesk purchased the company producing slicer, then killed it. It took a while to learn how to use it correctly, given lack of updated documentation.

I then exported to plans to a dxf file, brought it into fusion, extruded to 0.5 inches, and worked out the relevant CAM settings.





Here's the output of the bear CAM. I've included a downloadable link here



I then began on assembling the bear together. I included holes for dowels via slicer, which I spent a while editing/perfecting. This made putting the dowels in fairly easy.

This photo demonstrates the use of dowels to assemble the jigsaw!



Here is the final product!