The Amazing Art of CAD and CNC

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I’m loving what Steven Kempton, from the Ponoko Blog, and his new band of writers (David, Duann, Roy, and Indigo) are putting out. They look at all the different aspects that surround manufacturing, art and design.

David posted an item I recognized, the Demakersvan Cinderella table, but hadn’t given much thought to in the past. Once you realized it’s a creation of CAD and CNC, you either think, that’s impossible, or dang… what else could I make.

The Cinderella table, featured in a MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) Exhibit a couple years ago, is an artistic approach to what is possible with CAD and CNC. This table was created from sketches of furniture scanned, turned into 3D geometry and cut from 57 layers of birch plywood. When you see the 360 view at the Demakersvan site you’ll understand the complexity… but also an amazing simplicity.

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marijn 4 months ago 1 point
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LOL it looks like a loft gone bad between a sketch of a table and a small closet in a angle of 90 degree.
If this is art I made a lot of art in Solidworks :)
Producing it is something different respect for the CNC machine!

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Jon Banquer 4 months ago 1 point
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Noticeably absent from the Demarkesvan web site is what lies between the CAD and the 5 axis CNC router used to create the Cinderella table. That would be the CAM that is used to create the toolpaths to cut this thing. I'd be interested to know what kinds of roughing and finishing cutters were used and whether specialized cutters(form tools)needed to be designed. Also very helpful would be a detailed description of the process used to actually make the table including how it was fixtured and held. That information would be far more interesting to me than the actual Cinderella table itself is :)

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA

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Bruce Buck 4 months ago 1 point
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LOFTS GONE WILD!! Get your copy today!

I agree, what's more interesting is the machining aspect of this project and the fixturing/building of it.

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http://www.60hzproductions.com

Josh 4 months ago 1 point
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yeah, I'd agree to that seeing how this was created at the shop level would be very interesting. I'll see what I can find. kinda crazy that two simple profiles like that could be used to create a structure like this.

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cnc guy 1 month ago 1 point
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this is a solid blog that is a beautiful piece of cnc work

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http://cncmachining.wordpress.com