Furniture Making with 3D Printing and Wood
Mock-UPS and Final Concept
A course by Alexandre Chappel , Industrial Designer
About the video: Mock-UPS and Final Concept
Overview
“It's time to test out your ideas in the real world! You’ll use pieces of cardboard and tape to experiment with proportions and try different sizes.”
In this video lesson Alexandre Chappel addresses the topic: Mock-UPS and Final Concept, which is part of the Domestika online course: Furniture Making with 3D Printing and Wood. Learn how to use 3D printing in combination with wood to create custom pieces of furniture for your home.
Partial transcription of the video
“Mockups and Final Concept In this lesson, we'll make some full-scale mock-ups to test out the actual size of this thing that we'll build. Although these small sketches are fantastic to figure out overall proportions, it's really hard to see the actual scale when it's this big. The first thing we'll do is cut some pieces of cardboard to represent our shelves. For this, you can use any type of cardboard. It needn't be brown like this one, it can be old packaging material. This is just to get an overall shape and size before we commit to cutting the pieces out of plywood. The way I like to dec...”
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Course summary for: Furniture Making with 3D Printing and Wood
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Category
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Areas
3D, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Product Design, Woodworking

Alexandre Chappel
A course by Alexandre Chappel
Alexandre Chappel is an industrial designer, maker, and YouTuber from Switzerland. He studied industrial design in Norway where he learned to become a fine furniture maker and discovered a passion for 3D printing and woodworking. He turned that passion into a career and has since used his skills to make everything from desks to product prototypes.
Alexandre uses a variety of methods including woodworking, metalworking, 3D printing, and casting, and he has launched his own YouTube channel where he shares his expertise with his 325K subscribers. He prides himself on creating products that are both stylish and functional which he sells via his online shop.
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