Summary

Le Cadre foregrounds the elegance of generative design. As a demonstration of advanced additive manufacturing in elegant product design, the technology behind Le Cadre makes it suitable for an environment as exquisite and optimized as the modeling workflows which created it.

Design Specs

Desk

Beggining with a simple CAD model, I assigned some material properties, applied a handful of expected load cases, and defined boundary conditions as inputs for the TopOp sequence.

Properties:

• Material: Nylon
• Young's Modulus: 2.7 GPa
• Poisson's Ratio: 0.42

I checked my load cases with a symmetric pre-static analysis using nTop's simulation and desgin analysis toolkits. I also ran another static analysis on the TopOp result to verify its integrity.

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Chair

It was a similar process for the chair, with a few differences such as the loaction and magnitude of loading forces and boundary contraints. Both the chair and desk are designed to be fabricated with popular additive manufacturing materials and process such as Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM).

Properties:

• Material: Nylon
• Young's Modulus: 2.7 GPa
• Poisson's Ratio: 0.42

Dimensions

Desk

The final desk is rendered here in a luxurious obsidian base color with a medium gloss.

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Chair

The accompanying chair has been finished to resemble a fine grain maple with a golden brown varnish.

Concept Video

The nexus where common AM techniques meet uncommon design is where Le Cadre was born, but where it calls home is for you to decide.