Rapid Furniture Prototyping

SketchChair is a piece of software that takes the engineer out of engineering furniture. In a child’s-dream-come-true you draw the outlines you’d like to have, add some legs, and the software pops out a design ready to be laser-cut. The finishing touch of adding palm fiber and felt produces what we imagine is a moderately comfortable place to sit. Now the hard part will be convincing your spouse that you should spend the money building an industrial grade laser cutter because of all the money you’ll save on furniture.

We’re still holding out for furniture that is 3d-printed from rock to match our Flintstone’s motif.

Oh, and as always, video after the break.

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/9488518]

[via Buildlog]

11 thoughts on “Rapid Furniture Prototyping

  1. Check out Ponoko.com. You can upload your design, they can laser cut the item for you, and ship it as well as sell it to others. They were featured in Inc. Magazine and it looked pretty cool. Don’t know the cost of them though.

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