Furniture Manufacturing for Beginners: Open Source Design

Furniture Manufacturing for Beginners: Open Source Design

“Thank you so much for coming this far with me! My main goal is to show how open design can change the world, decentralizing production and boosting the local market. Hope you enjoyed this course. Before concluding, here are the seven steps to creating an open design: • Discover your client's needs or what they would like to design as their furniture or decoration. • Understand the main features needed to serve users (eg comfort, size, material, etc.) • Make your design on paper and start imagining it in two scenarios: 2D and 3D. • Start separating it into 2D parts, the ones that will be cut on a CNC router, and start thinking about the fittings and ways of assembling your design. • Prepare the digital cutting material, inside a plate, with the correct layers for good communication with the producer. • Choose the type of finish, color and material for your design so that it can be produced anywhere in this world. • Share your file with your network for feedback and interactions! Here's one way to present your project: Layout

Final piece As a final project, you can make the furniture or decoration object you want. I showed the Valoví chair, but you can let your imagination run wild and choose another item, other furniture, so you can put into practice everything we saw in the course. Publish your final project and also take advantage of the space to ask questions and interact with me, in addition to meeting other students and exchanging experiences. See you. Until later! ”

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“Final project Thank you so much for coming this far with me. My main goal is to show how open source design can change the world, decentralizing production and boosting the local market. During the course you learned to create from scratch furniture using open source design, for user and project understanding, coming out of 2D until it becomes a 3D part. My wish is that you have been influenced. I want a bigger and bigger community of inspiring and borderless designers. Technology can be an important transformation tool and it is up to us to share solutions and knowledge so that we can incr...”

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Course summary for: Furniture Manufacturing for Beginners: Open Source Design

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (33)
• 1830 students
• 4 units
• 11 lessons (1h 49m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  AutoCAD, Rhino

• Areas

  3D Modeling, Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Woodworking