Putting furniture without nails

What first comes to mind when it comes to furniture production? Imagination draws huge workshop, dozens of workers, warehouses, stores and delivery services. Designers from England offer a different approach.

In the digital age, instead of going to the store for your favorite table or a chair, you can download drawings and make furniture yourself. To this end, the British developed a series of projects called opendesk, in the assembly which does not use fasteners, nails, screws or tools.

Tables, chairs, cabinets are assembled from separate pieces cut from a single sheet of plywood on 3D-Fraser. In fact, the furniture is designer-like children's shipbuilding and model aircraft kits.

All items in the furniture bonded to each other due to the T and U-shaped locks and connections "tongue and groove". Thanks to computer simulation, the assembly process is simple and intuitive.

Because of the simplification of manufacturing processes and a small amount of waste, such furniture is cheaper than in the industrial production.

Break in the idea and running a small production, innovators have gone further. They have created a single electronic database and drawings of 3D-models. Designers call this project "furniture with open source."

From this base, being in any country of the world, the user can download a drawing of a favorite furniture models and modify it for yourself: change the size, material, or offer its own version of the design. After that professional designers are making the appropriate changes to the basic design, creating on its basis a new series. Further, the drawing is made available for download to other users.

This allows you to quickly fill up a database with new models of furniture design and track customer preferences.

The main obstacle to the widespread introduction of this technology - is the need to use for furniture 3D-millingthe machine. To solve this problem can be ordered completely ready, cut kit, or as an option, to simplify the drawings, removing complex shaped elements and hidden recesses. In this case, the furniture can make your own by using a minimal set of tools: jigsaw and circular saw, but the details will have to attach a conventional manner.

The future plans of the English part of the maximum expansion of the geography of power production. For it is proposed to purchase or rent a 3D-mill, or, if such equipment is already installed (for example, there are CNC), download the appropriate software.

Because the entire production cycle is to cut plywood parts, then to organize such production is possible even in the garage. As conceived by the British, such an approach, as well as access to the "collective intelligence" database will quickly rebuild their own production and to produce a variety of furniture.

A similar idea, only in simplified form, offers a designer from Israel Ruthie Shafrir. She has developed a rack design that is shaped like a honeycomb.

The rack is made of long plywood or aluminum plates with narrow slits. The blanks are joined by the method of "cut to cut." The width of the slit depends on the thickness of the workpiece (workpiece connect vnatyag). The depth of the slot is equal to half the width of the plate.

To assemble the rack does not require tools, glue, fasteners. Due to the slots, the panels are inserted into each other, forming the original in appearance and stable construction, fits well with the design of the majority of the interiors.

By varying the size of the panels, their thickness, length, surface finish, it is possible to collect a variety of shelving for storing a plurality of items. For example:

books

small things

Kitchen and toilet accessories

shoes

Depending on the size, the rack may carry a load of 10 to 80 kg. Rack at any moment can be easily disassembled and transported to another location. Repeat this construction not be easy even for a beginner home wizard.

You can download drawings on the subject of "furniture for the home and garden". See, what heights you can achieve on their own in joineryMay be subject to under the nickname forumchanin kfr. You can also read the article, which tells how to make furniture the handsAnd watch video on a non-standard approach to the self-production of furniture.

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