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Achieving rigidity

14/5/2015

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Plywood has a property that is very useful indeed for ensuring your pieces are rigid: it doesn’t have a preferred grain.

If you wanted an ‘L’-shaped section using solid wood, you would need to fashion two pieces and join them together.  With any joint, there is inherent weakness: it’s weaker than if it were a single piece.  With plywood of course, you can make this a single piece as it’s a sheet material.

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Assembly considerations

9/5/2015

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For every piece of furniture or object I have in mind to make using digital fabrication, I spend a lot of time thinking how the components will be assembled together.  These components can be other pieces cut out of the same plywood sheet or externally-manufactured items like dowels, hinges, bolts, electrical cords etc.

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