5. Computer-Controlled Machining

I was thinking of building a convertible table for my apartment, since my kitchen is too small to even fit a table. I came up with multiple ideas of folding a wood, which works perfectly when I did the laser cut using cardboard. I brought the design to the shop and want to see whether the OSB can bend or not.

• Top left: After generating toolpath, Shopbot is cutting my testing bending piece.
• Top right: Ready to bend.
• Bottom left: I am bending the board slowly to see how much it can go.
• Bottom right: It broke after bending over 90 degree.

I decided not to make a folderable table due to the limitation of OSB. Then, I came up this idea of making a ROCKING HORSE for my nephew when I saw this. I used Fusion360 to draw the horse and then used illustrator to arrange the best way to cut.

I need to know the percise width of the kerf that I should use before cutting the actual piece. I hope I can assemble my rocking horse without any glue.

• Top left: I ended up pick 0.43 inches for my kerf and cutting the outside.
• Top right: Auto-zeroing Z axis.
• Bottom left: Be very CAREFUL when adjust the origin. Avoid screw! We should design everything within 47*47 inches avoiding cuting the screw on the coner of the board.
• Bottom right: I have tried with different witdthes and toolpathes( cutting outside or inside).

I have 5 pieces OSB for horse's body, but I decided to cut only one first and see how it fits with the assembling piece. I am really glad that I did this, because not all the Slots cutting out in the same size. I looked the toolpath carefully and found out that some of the slots were cutting inside and some were outside. Both Daniel and me could not figure out what went wrong.

I decided to generate two toolpath with some cutting outside and the rest cutting inside.

• Top left: It took about 50 minutes to cut.
• Top right: I was cutting tabs.
• Bottom left: I think I did a good job arranging the space!
• Bottom right: Ready to build!

Surprisingly! All the pieces fits together perfectly. And it seems pretty strong!