CNC Machining – Rocking Lounge Chair
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Group Assignment for CNC Machining
do your lab’s safety training.
test runout, alignment, fixturing, speeds, feeds, materials, and toolpaths for your machine.
shown in Week 5 of EECS Group Assignments.
I am a big fan of living hinges. Since Week 1 of making some cardboard version of living hinges. Inspired by the living hinge version of the rocking lounge chair, I designed a simplified version using the cost-effective OSB material. Because Anthony reminded me that the OSB finishing does not have the density and strength to support living hinges.
Reference rocking lounge chair (living hinge version) |
Designed rocking lounge chair (OSB version; no living hinges) |
I really like the shape of this rocking lounge chair, I used the arc
tool in Fusion 360 to replicate the rough structure of the shape by keeping four connecting points have tangent curvatures, as shown below.