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Hi Hani-

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Those are some nice zomes you've built there! I happy the plugin helped.

Rob Bell

Thank you all. It was an immensely enjoyable experience through and through.

I especially enjoyed telling people that they were standing inside of a three dimensional shadow of a twelve...

Hello Shopbotters-

I just returned from another excursion to the Nevada desert where I took my Zome design pattern up a notch. This Art sructure, as last years, uses no metal fasteners of any...

He looks pretty happy being dry and warm to me. :-)

Long time coming I know..but here are a couple updates to this project. Thus far this structure has been assembled three times.


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We have a little blog about it.
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Congratulations, Dave. The Temple this year was truly impressive. I loved the many intricate designs carved throughout...but I'm sorry this photo proves that my temple was bigger! ;-)
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This one is for keeps. It was dissassembled with a mallet and a pocketknife and will be back next year in it's next iteration. The beauty of this geometric class is that the same panels and more of...

Thanks Bill.

Designing and building this art piece was a real pleasure. I was pleasantly surprised how many people noticed and appreciated that the structure was built without metal fasteners -...

I found this little app to be very helpful.

http://www.forestmoon.com/software/GearDXF/

It was designed in Sketchup. It is fun. Inside it's a pretty cool space as well. Organic garden - organic shape..it seemed to be appropriate.
-Rob

Here are some pictures of my latest foray into synergetic construction.

Recently I came in contact with a landscape architect and local food advocate from Berkeley, CA. She asked me if I could...

man, if I'd known she was gonna write me up I'd have dusted a bit. :-)

and there's more...
http://okadadesign.blogspot.com/2009/05/rob-bells-designs-for-hanging-my.html

Hey...wait a minute!?


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I'm not much of a sign maker so this project had it's challenges for me. It's a sign for a new business opening up in San Francisco. The wood is Ash and the letters are v-carved acrylic, inset into...

Yes, there are a few things to know before exporting from Sketchup Pro.

Explode ALL your curves.

Encapsulate geometry into groups by layer if you wish overlapping/crossing vectors to remain...

Was someone talking about me? I've been busy running the bot and pushing sheets and I'm not quite up for air yet. From what I see here the question has been well answered. At the moment, the best way...

Owning SketchupPro allows one to export their 3D model as either .3ds or .dxf, plus many others.

3ds is good for Partworks3D / Cut3D

dxf is good for Partworks / VCarvePro

As Gary said,...

I'm not sure about the age of these. However the shorter, vertical slab in the background is one half of a pair and is quite old >100yrs from a cemetery and is know to be riddled with bullets!
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Here's a neat project we are just finishing. It is a table made of two beautiful bookmatched slabs of walnut, side by side, spanned by a 9" strip of glass. The legs are 1/2" waterjet cut steel. The...

yes, pocket. And be sure to oversize lap pocket profile so as to avoid any little radius nubs on your part. Good Luck.

Hi Joseph-

Sometimes some skills follow others. In my experience being able to make a lap joint with a cnc tool is a prerequisite for making a mortise and tenon joint. A prerequisite is...

Hey Thomas-

Click the above link and then slide the video controller thumb until the elapsed time is 52:37. Thats where the tenon portion starts.

-Rob

Hey Joseph-

I have a nice little article in the works on just this subject - but until then here's a couple starter points. First off take a quick look at an example of one type of cnc tenon I...

Alas, no!

But at least the BT-32 found a good home. It ended up in Boulder with the Sketchup folks.

It was hands down the best software conference I've ever been to. The Googleplex is...

I just had a file with over 2000 holes which needed to go from 0.5 to 0.52 so I simply lied about the bit size. 0.25 -> 0.23