Large Format CNC Routing & Furniture Design
While freelancing out of mHub, a physical product accelerator located in Chicago, my officemates and I needed some additional storage in our lofted office. Simple hanging organizers were outrageously expensive for what minimal storage they provided. Since we had access to a 4’ x 8’ ShopBot CNC router, we purchased some sheets of MDF and made our own.
In SOLIDWORKS, these different variations could have been created using configurations, but at the time of creation Fusion 360 lacked that capability.
In this project, I learned quite a lot about designing for sheet stock, joining those parts, and nesting parts for manufacturing. It took some trial and error to space the parts out sufficiently for CAM and to be left with usable scrap stock afterwards.
I designed these shelves in Fusion 360with the intention of hanging them over our lofted office walls.
We needed to have a few versions: first, a short stack of shelves so that we could comfortably walk under them. Having a longer version was necessary as well so we could just hold more materials, but we wanted to have two different versions for taller items (e.g. prototypes) and shorter objects (e.g. books).
