The Concept for my interval project has been to develop a peice of street furniture acting as both a bench/seat and street lamp. This has developed from the concept that each piece of street furniture within the school should not has one purpose but offer a multitude of purposes... this piece only offere a seat and light but others could include bins, desks, beds etc. After drafting up a template in AutoCAD i chucked it into sketchup and made a quick 3D Model to scale. At his stage my main concern is with the overall height... there maybe be some stability issues. The other issue i have not been able to resolve is how to cable the lights up to the fitting without being visible... or maybe the cables are visible... and recommendations?
Here are a few views of my concept...
Template Layout - just fits on 1200mm x 2400mm 6mm ply sheet and tries to maxmise the whole of the sheet. There is approximately 3 mm spacing between each peice - considering the use of laser cutter - not sure what spacing was required for cutting - anyone know for sure? so i can take the correctly documented template to Des friday :)
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I went down to the workshop today and spoke with Shane about this sort of stuff. I'm fairly sure the router can handle the full 1200x2400mm sheet, but the laser-cutter only handles a sheet with a maximum size of 600x400mm (not sure if the new, bigger laser-cutter is up and running yet). He actually mentioned that the router has an accuracy tollerance of +/-3mm and as such is not recommended for fine detail or super high precision cutting like the laser is, only chunkier stuff (pieces around 50mm wide and upwards).
He also mentioned the $30 figure was based on using 3mm MDF with the router and that other materials or use of the laser-cutter would most likely incur extra costs.
Just re-read your post. If you're wondering about tolerances for the laser-cutter, it cuts a line around 0.5mm wide, so you generally don't need to allow for this unless the stuff you're doing is tiny.
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