Plywood Living Hinge Design for Laser Cutters

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October 25th, 2011 5

Another cool technique for your bag of CNC panel-cutting tricks. The booklets and photos shown here are from the Dutch firm Snijlab lasersnijden (which, obviously, translates as “Snijlab Laser Ninjas”). The method is kind of like kerf-bending, but the cuts go all the way through the substrate. [via Boingsy Boing]

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5 thoughts on “Plywood Living Hinge Design for Laser Cutters”

TotalMonkey says:

October 25th, 2011 at 2:20 pm

Super sweet!
Roy Jacobsen says:

October 25th, 2011 at 5:17 pm

How well would that hold up under daily use? I know that there’s metal fatigue–or perhaps more properly, work hardening. Is there such a thing as wood fatigue?
Pim Hansen says:

December 9th, 2011 at 7:54 am

“(which, obviously, translates as “Snijlab Laser Ninjas”)” Not quite; Snijlab lasersnijden would be Cutlab lasercutting when literally translated. Lovely cuts though. :)
Harry Thorpe says:

May 6th, 2012 at 2:49 pm

what does the cut drawing look like and also it would be nice if there was a dxf file available
Janio Bermúdez says:

January 10th, 2016 at 3:49 pm

esto esta fenomenal

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Plywood Living Hinge Design for Laser Cutters

By Sean Michael Ragan