Joinery

Laser cutting is widely used as a rapid modeling tool. However, designing and fabricating laser cut assemblies can be a complex and tedious process, especially for novice designers. Joints between different parts of an assembly are a critical feature to translate a digital model into a physical model through laser cutting.

Joinery was developed to facilitate this rapid modeling process as a parametric joint generation toolkit for laser cut assemblies. Through Joinery, designers simply define connections between parts of an assembly, while the system generates the joints. Joinery supports fabrication-aware design through six different joint profiles. These joint profiles were developed through extensive research and experiments with different materials and product types, and each profile caters to different design needs.

Authors
Clement Zheng
Jim Budd
Ellen Yi-Luen Do

C&C 2017

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