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Re:Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame by rimeice on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:07AM (#27673526)
OpenDesk.cc also worth a mention! Same concept but for furniture. One of the interesting engineering challenges we faced there was the 0.1 - 0.2mm variation in thickness between different sheets of ply. Those small differences can mean loose fitting joints and a very wobbly output vs a set of parts that simply would not slot together. We ended up having to parametrically design every slot so makers could measure their current sheet and select the right thickness.
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Re:Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame by JackMcMack on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:21AM (#27674319)
You're charging 30% of the manufacturing cost? That seems excessive.

Edit: and the free "Make It Yourself" downloads are unavailable.

What exactly is "Open" about Opendesk?

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Re:Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame by glutamate on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:24AM (#27673628)
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Re:Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame by brohee on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:55AM (#27673829)
Why was this preferred to using a thickness planner to even the boards?
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Re:Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame by Keithamus on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:53AM (#27674132)
You can’t thickness plane plywood reliably. The laminations are often too thin and will tear apart in low spots, or uneven glueing on the laminations will cause it to delaminate. It’s likely to make more of a mess than a usable product.

Then of course there’s the issue that not everyone owns a thickness planer, or they own small planers which can only feed in materials smaller than, say, 400mm wide which adds likely too many constraints for these projects.

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Re:Facit Homes, Wikihouse, and the Plywood Frame by rimeice on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:25AM (#27686257)
Exactly this. The idea was to consume as much complexity in the design and keep the build process as simple as possible so as many makers as possible with only a few tools could work with the designs.
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