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B&F Hexatable Royce S. Florian & Guillaume Baro

The B&F Hexatable is an open-source table, designed with and fabricated by software and machines that are found within the FABlab community. We hope to show the users of the FABlab community the potentiel that the CNC milling machines possess, while at the same time creating a functional and innovative contribution to the FABlab SU.

The B&F hexatable has not only been “designed” as just any ordinary piece of furniture. We seeked to engineer a piece of furniture that had a very high level of structural integrity so that it can withstand the rigors of use within a FABlab, office, co-working space or media lab. While at the same time, we wanted a table that could be made on the 60cm X 120cm cutting table of our “ShopBot Buddy”[CNC milling machine]. These “structual constraints” will be introduced and discussed in the “3D modeling” section of this wiki.

All FABlabs should be concentrating on the use of renewable & sustainable resources. We wanted this table to maximize the use of materials and create the least amount of scrap possible & optimise the tool-path where-as we can cut the table in the most efficent way possible. A series of materials hare currently under review and we hope to fabricate these tables with the most environmentally responsible choice of materials. The choice of material and the considerations will be introduced and discussed in the “Structual Simulation” section of this Wiki.