Coded Finger Joints

Surely not a novelty and perhaps it exists in Compas/Ngon or Biber but it was fun to make and very simple to use with Rhino Polyhedra and it allows me to test my CO2 and after Fiber Laser.

Thanks @dale for this wonderful tool. All polyhedron I tested has curves that are CCW :+1:

The main idea is to generate Finger Joints that are made using a Laser Cutter.

I made 3 types of Finger Joints, regular ones, Two/Three Joints per edge and one that is a Binary code that can be unique on each edge. Unique if read from left to right or right to left. It means if there is enough bits, you mustn’t make an error when making it.

I made this 15 cm polyhedron from 1.7 mm plywood. It uses 500 x 400 mm sheet.

The Laser cutted (not good I still learn to use my machine), and not glued. The trick of Unique code per edge works really, I didn’t have to make adjustments.

3 types of Joints

Regular, Two/Three fingers, Bits coded

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Perfection is not yet here. At the moment Corners are not treated perfectly. Sometimes filled too much in concave region or missing material in convex regions.

Compass Ngon Biber tools are more professional for wood joinery.

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