Hey everyone!
I've been working on/thinking about digital fabrication for a while, specifically distributing files for other people to make. The idea that I could send a digital file to someone else and they could use their machine to replicate the same thing is pretty compelling. As we all know it's not exactly magic. Every machine, sheet of material, bit, and intrepretation of a design is a little different.
To prove out this idea, I'm wondering if anyone would be up for an experiement. I've designed this table:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2hn1uz9jc...Guide.pdf?dl=0
https://goo.gl/photos/nt7c4g2UcjBS3hTi9
It's a two sheet table that's really sturdy, easy to fabricate and easy to assemble. It's "thickness agnostic" so all you need is any two sheets of 3/4 plywood as long as they're between .680 and .76 thick. You can mix and match sheet thicknesses too.
The table is assembled using simple furniture bolts and T nuts. You can get the hardware at Home Depot, Fastenal, or Amazon.
For someone to fabricate this they'll need a 4x8 machine, a 1/4" upspiral bit and optionally a compression bit for cutting out all of the parts.
For software all you need is Apsire or VCarve 9.0. I've provided complete toolpath'd files, along with a 3D SketchUp model, and for those that use different (or older) CAM software a well layered DXF file.
Would anyone be interested in building one of these as a test? I've already built several myself. I'd be very interested to see how someone else would do using my files...