Furniture Making with 3D Printing and Wood
Cutting the Parts
A course by Alexandre Chappel , Industrial Designer
About the video: Cutting the Parts
Overview
“In this lesson, I will model how to cut the wood to size. You can either do this on your own or get help from a local wood supplier. You’ll only need basic tools for this step. ”
In this video lesson Alexandre Chappel addresses the topic: Cutting the Parts, 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
“Right, in this lesson, we're finally about ready to start cutting out some parts out of wood. The first thing that we're gonna make is the shelves. and we're going to make those out of this sheet of plywood. Now, as you might remember from the mock-ups that we made, we decided that the shelves were going to be 50 centimeters wide and 24 centimeters. So we need to decide which direction we want the wood grain to be on our shelves. We can either have them like this, where the wood grain goes the same direction as the short side, Or like this, where the wood grain goes the same direction as th...”
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Course summary for: Furniture Making with 3D Printing and Wood
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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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