Design into 3D project live on Kickstarter

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

This is now up:

Design into 3D: a book of customizable project designs

Let me know if you have any questions!

[Julien]

I have no idea yet what project I’ll propose, but your involvment in this community was enough reason for me to contribute. Fingers crossed !

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Thanks! (Kind of figured the first donation was you)

I was kind of caught flat-footed by the instant/automatic approval — hopefully will be making some more content for the page tonight and getting that posted. Thus far I have:

• boxes
  • fingerjoint: CNC Finger Joint Box
  • fitted
  • mitered w/ hidden spline
  • rabbeted boxes — there’s already a generator for these, and I worked up instructions on them based on a video
  • dovetail (half blind) — needs a fixture and a dovetail router bit: Sharing Carbide Create Dovetail Files
• furniture
  • child’s step stool — have this in a sketchbook, need to make a duplicate of a stool my wife used as a child and which our daughter really enjoyed
  • bookshelves — the correct translation of “too many books” is “not enough bookshelves”
• tools
  • hex bit holder — this one I need to work out how to get cut — I’ve got an
    OpenSCAD file which will make an STL, but workholding is a real problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/comments/4yt295/hex_bit_storage/
  • calipers — need to work out the math and logic to make them parametric
  • hand brace/drill — found a really cool wooden one from Japan on eBay which should be easy to make on the machine

I’m also going to need feedback on what the defaults should be, and what features and options should be worked up, and how things ought to be named.

[The_real_janderson (Jonathan Anderson)]

Awesome! I’m excited you finally got this live.

[dps529 (Dennis Selander)]

I just backed your Kickstarter I am new to the Shapeoko and this forum but you have helped me with all your posts, I am not sure if I will suggest a project yet but I am looking forward to see this work I hope you reach the goal and it happens.
Dennis.

[FoothillFurniture (David Justice)]

I’ll be suggesting a fancy vertical work holding jig, well fancier than my piece of plywood with holes in it. Best of luck on the campaign!

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Thanks! I put one of those up at:

CNC Box (Finger) Joint Box

Managed to get two sets of parts cut: [WIN_20180911_22_41_11_Pro] Which shows more or less how it ought to work. Not included in the photo are three additional boards (all four would be cut at the same time) and a front cross bar which the two F-clamps would hold in place to clamp the four boards, and a set of adjustable clamps which would hold the boards from side-to-side (still need to cut those, but not convinced of the design yet). The brass nuts are speed nuts from: https://www.garret…

and the following pages:

[FoothillFurniture (David Justice)]

Cool! How have I missed this? Well, I’ll have to come up with a new project.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Thanks!

I’ve started in on a web page to document all this at: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Design_into_3D

Design into 3D is an effort to create a systematic set of project generators for CNC projects, documenting things well enough that one would be able to draw up traditional plans using pen and pencil and fabricate an instance of a project using hand tools.

It is simultaneously:

• an opensource project which is a collection of projects for things such as boxes, furniture, and tools
• a Kickstarter
• a book (currently in early draft stages)
• a website: https://designinto3d.com/
• a design philosophy

The design philosophy touches on the idea that fundamentally there are only two types of furniture:

• platforms
• boxes

with more complicated pieces incorporating both structures.

I’ll be continuing that there, but look forward to any discussions or thoughts which folks might have.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Just posted my first update!

There’s been a bit of activity here in various threads:

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/cnc-finger-joint-box/8880/98

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/fitted-box-design-generator-underway/13437/4

and I’ve gotten started on a wiki page: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Design_into_3D

My thanks to everyone who has supported this so far!

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

A second update:

Design into 3D: a book of customizable project designs

which most importantly, has files / photos / tests of the first project.

[dps529 (Dennis Selander)]

The Kickstarter project that WillAdams started is so close now only need another $240 in pledges to make this come true I believe this is a good project and would be helpful to many people starting out with a cnc also I believe Will has helped so many out here and we should be sure to support him in this so please lets do what we can to make this project come true only have a few days left to back it.

[The_real_janderson (Jonathan Anderson)]

Thanks for the reminder! I pitched it and now it’s only $55 away.

[Julien]

$2095 over 2000 now. Yay!
9 more days to make that a larger amount, this is worth it.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Thanks!

I guess I need to work up some stretch goals — how do these sound?

• $3,000 — the number of projects in the book will increase to 12
• $4,000 — in addition to computer generated 3D renderings and line art drawings, hand-drawn illustrations of each project will be commissioned from a professional illustrator and included in the books and on the electronic access site(s)
• $5,000 — the number of projects in the book will increase to 15

[Griff (Well crap, my hypometric precursor device is blown…)]

Happy to have put you over the top.

$2k here we come!

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Thanks again!

Funded!

Winding down on the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designinto3d/design-into-3d-a-book-of-customizable-project-desi

One consideration here is licensing — the designs published to the on-line sites will be CC BY-NC-SA — so won’t be eligible for manufacture for sale for profit in quantity — the book, even the PDF will not be so limited.