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You may have a good idea of how you want
your frame to look, but will it stand up?
Our engineering department has the difficult
task of designing an attractive and structurally sound
frame, factoring in all the loads and stresses it might
conceivably have to endure. They draw up the joinery
details, designing mortise and tennon joints accurate
to 1/64" and specify all the other fasteners that
might be required.
They work almost exclusively in 3D, which
is great for showing concepts of space enclosed by timber;
they've refined the process of communicating ideas over
distance through the use of virtual reality modeling.
You'll be pleased to know that we conduct a Finite Element
Analysis of every frame. For those of us who don't do
engineer speak, this just means that our guys try and
break your frame in the computer, before it gets anywhere
near the shop. If it fails, it gets redesigned. If it
passes, it gets built.
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