A design teacher's notebook
Guides, experiments, and classroom design projects from Fox Bright, a technological design teacher. Making things with printers, lasers, mills, moulds, CAD, and a bit of AI.
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How a stick-framed wall is put together in Ontario, and how doors and windows are framed into it. Stud spacing, plates, king and jack studs, headers, cripples and rough openings, with the numbers you need to lay one out.
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Modify → Arrange packs every flat part of your model onto a 600 × 300 mm sheet in one go. Set the envelope, pick the components, read the result, then project the layout to a sketch and save it as a DXF.
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Pull real street data out of OpenStreetMap as vectors, turn the roads into cuttable shapes in Illustrator, and decide whether the roads are the wood or the gaps before you send it to the laser.
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Engrave a die into laser rubber, print a handle that fits it, and you have a tool that neither machine could make alone. Artwork rules, mirroring, Speedy settings and a Fusion handle in one short walk-through.
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A landscape as a stack of plywood contours. Two routes to the cut files, one through a terrain model and Fusion's slicing template, one through real contour lines in QGIS and Illustrator, plus how to pick the vertical scale so Ontario does not come out flat.
Design Project · 5 weeks ·
A six-foot cube of space somewhere people already pass, a small pile of lumber, and one question to answer with it. What goes there is yours to work out, and you have to show it was worth building.
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