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I am a huge lover of Domestika.org courses and to make this stool I have joined the course Introduction to CNC Router Furniture Design by Daniel Romero, Inustrial designer at Tuux
In the Course Daniel talks through the furniture design in Rhino, he provides his design and encourages the students to make alterations. The illustration below shows the original design in black and my profiles in red.
I have done number of drawings in the past inspired by Arabic and Islamic geometrical art and that influenced my direction here as well.
I have designed the stool as 3D model (as on the picture at the very top) and ended up extracting profiles for CNC programing anyway. I like to do 3D models as they help to eliminate material overlap, which is a bit harder to control with 2D drawings only.
I've imported DXF drawing into a Vcarve trial version that I have at home and programed profiles to cut - preview on the right.
I could then take the CRV file from Vcarve to the Fife College, where they have Vcarve Pro. This enabled me to generate Gcode which was uploaded into CNC router.
Fife College got the SmartBench by Yetitools/Trend several months ago and now it is available for furniture students to use, so I was very happy to get this stool cut from a sheet of plywood. Due to the high prices of wood I've only used a low grade ply but I think it serves well as a test piece.
Could I help you with designing a flat pack or any other CNC project?
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