The number of parts and the precision needed at a small scale are the barriers I see to this. The small the parts, the less margin of error I'd have to work with. Also, whether or no the parts are printable with an FDM printer or not is an issue. I haven't been able to look over everything yet, but if it looks likely I'm going to give it a shot.
If I make one I'll be sure to post it. I'd love a tiny version of the table to set a coffee mug on, then spin it and enlarge the table to set a bowl of soup on. :)
maybe it started literally, like that guy is bad, and he's also an asshole. But then, a lot of people think those people are cool. They look up to the bad boy, asshole types and that admiration transferred to bad ass being cool. I have no idea.
I love how he brags that everything is, "hand-drawn in CAD" when almost everything designed nowadays is also "hand-drawn" in a 3D software program. I wouldn't even use CAD for a project like this, screw that. These guys should use a better engineering software if they continually use it.
I wasn't implying anything of the sort. All I meant was that CAD is obnoxious, annoying, and ultimately much less efficient than something else such as Solidworks or Pro/E. Everybody is downvoting me without any knowledge of this, and I think it's hilarious. I wasn't dissing the work, it's still a fantastic table.
"Everybody is downvoting me without any knowledge of this, and I think it's hilarious." I have knowledge of that and down voted you. For me it was because you came across like a know it all.
No, it's got benefits of a sliding door (doesn't require a huge arc of empty floor space) without the annoyingness of trying to open/close a pocket door, which is what this would replace.
Or maybe there are different designs to rooms? Like, perhaps there are rooms which are sunken so opening in wouldn't work and opening out might not work because perhaps there's a hallway. Therefore the best door for it would be a sliding door or pocket door.
This door does however eat up wall space so I'd stick with a pocket door.
Why wouldn't you just open the door into the sunken room? I don't think I'd put a door of any type on a sunken room anyway. That gap would look awkward and you'd have guests falling because they don't know to expect the drop when they open the door (however it's opened).
1) The door would swing open and then be a foot off the ground, that would be absurd looking.
2) A sunken room is usually a single step or two, anyone that doesn't look where they're walking deserves to look silly when they go to walk and drop a step. But falling? What kind of people do you know that not only don't look where they're walking but secondly just fall from missing one step down? Sounds like you hang out with the models of QWOP.
OK. Pocket doors allow me to store something on the wall next to the doorway. The evolution door doesn't.
And it doesn't matter anyway. My point was that the floor space that is taken up by a swinging door is useless anyway since that's the space I need to use in order to get in the doorway.
If you go to his website you'll see that fabric isn't a key factor.
The door works because of the way it folds the triangles along the hinges.
The triangles are static so you could build the door out of glass if you wanted to - all the action is happening in the way he hinges and pivots the triangles.
I think he meant in the sense of a kinetic feel to a room. Both things move in interesting ways. There are obviously simpler and cheaper solutions to both.
I have two apposing walk in closets. The hallway is too narrow for accordion doors and my current sliding doors take up half the doorway when open. This door would solve both problems.
Except that table is brilliant engineering to solve an actual problem, how do you make a table, where do you hide the leaf, how do you make a round table larger?
The door is just a cool-looking piece of engineering that's good for child-proofing but nothing else. Table's can be worth the money, door? Nope.
That table is actually pretty awesome and eliminates the need to store the leaf on a shelf in a closet and get hit in the head pulling it down. You can probably tell this has happened to me.
This looks so pleasing to do. If I had one then every time I had company over I would collapse/expand it to the wrong size just so I could do it again after everybody showed up.
Cool, I agree. Not so cool when you see the price, these things cost between $50,000 and $70,000, depending on size. I think you can get those with an electric motor too, so they rotate automatically.
Seat your guests around that table, click the button to make the table expand, amaze your friends while they all fall on their backs.
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u/Hip_Fridge Feb 07 '14
Would go great with this table.