This week is all about cutting mats! What they are, how to use them, and what qualities to look out for when choosing the right mat for your needs.
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Hey, happy Sunday!
I'm Chelsea from TheStudentArchitect.com where I create a variety of resources for architects and architecture students. If you'd like to check out any of my online courses, tutorials, blog posts, or anything like that, you can check out the link right here!
So today we're gonna talk about cutting boards or cutting mats. It might sound pretty self-explanatory, it's a mat that you cut things on, but there's a little bit more to it than that.
So there are all different types of sizes, and types of cutting mats, or cutting boards, that you can use. I definitely recommend having a variety of sizes. So you can see I have a pretty small one here as well as a pretty large one right here. And they can help you with a variety of things like moving models from one location to another, using it for model making, for cutting pieces, and also assembling parts of your models.
And all cutting mats are not created equal. So I definitely recommend choosing a double-sided, self-healing cutting mat. So that is what this cutting mat is. You can see there's a green side, and there is a black side, and both of them have grids and angles on them which you can use for a variety of purposes.
So this cutting mat is not self-healing. So if you look at this here, you can see every single cut that I've ever made on this mat, and it's kind of a mess, actually.
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If you look at this cutting mat though, you might see a couple of glue marks and things like that but you probably won't see very many cuts and that's because its self-healing. So unless you make a very deep cut into this mat. it's going to pretty much close itself back up so that you don't see any of those cut marks.
Now the reason that I recommend getting a double-sided mat is because I recommend using one side for cutting and one side for gluing because it can get a little bit messy and if you start accumulating little globs of glue around your cutting mat, it can make it a little bit harder to make precise cuts on the cutting mat.
So pretty much for the green side, I only use to cut things, and then on the black side, I use to glue things and make my models.
So the smaller cutting mat is definitely useful when you're working in small spaces or again transporting portions of your model from one desk or one area to another. And having a larger cutting mat is just useful for a lot of different purposes because you have a lot of surface area to work with.
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I hope you have a great day and I'll see you next Sunday!
Happy working!
♥ Chelsea
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This week is all about cutting mats! What they are, how to use them, and what qualities to look out for when choosing the right mat for your needs.