Facit Homes, Wikihouse, And The Plywood Body

Plywood frames use thin sheets of plywood [0] as the material for the complete structural system. Sheets of plywood are run by way of a CNC router, which cuts the plywood into specifically designed shapes. The shapes are then hooked up together utilizing slots and tabs (helped into place with large mallets) to kind a variety of structural components – partitions, box beams, portal frames, columns – which then get assembled (using extra slots, tabs, clips, and wedges) to kind the superstructure of the building. The tight tolerances of the machined plywood imply that all the pieces fits snugly collectively, which permits easy friction connections to do an excessive amount of the work (though in observe most of the folks using the system are throwing in some mechanical fasteners as effectively).

Presently, Nordecoply to make this work, that you must run plytool codegen at a command prompt earlier than compiling your undertaking. (I plan to ultimately merge this command into the construct process, however only after optimizing it so that it runs incrementally.) This command scans all available supply code modules, extracts all the kind declarations using a customized C++ parser, and generates some additional supply code required for the metadata.

Gentle – 20 pt or 1/42nd of an inch, in regards to the thickness of a cereal box.

XL – 32 pt. or 1/32nd of an inch, in regards to the thickness of a bank card

Extra Heavy – 50-fifty two pt or 1/twentieth of an inch, in regards to the thickness of a penny.

2X – 85 pt. or 3/32nd of an inch, in regards to the thickness of 2 dimes.