Last week in the fabrication shop…
Our fabrication shop in Oakland uses multiple CNC machines, 3D printers and traditional building tools for all our various projects.
Jr. Digital Fabricator-2024
We are currently offering full time & part time positions.
This role will be highly involved in the production of custom furniture and interior elements for our clients. Creative problem solving and self directed focus are key in this position, as well as an interest in being a multidisciplinary fabricator and learning new skills as we never make the same thing twice.
CNC Fabric Cutting
For the 2024 Burning Man Temple project, we cut around 500 pieces from this white cotton fabric.
Hardwood walnut - double sided specialty carving
A project for our friends over at Channing Street Copper, creating the hardwood walnut knobs and handles for their beautiful stove: Copper.
Acoustic Felt Curtain Panel Fabrication
Acoustic Felt cut to spec. Precise, detailed cuts, fast turn around.
Brushed Aluminum Milled and Carved
We recently milled & engraved many of these aluminum frames for an award project. Each with a different name, blackened for visibility, and a nice brush finish to complete them.
The ample z-height, rigid gantry, and servo precision of our 5-axis CNC machine really came in handy in executing well on these parts.
Read more to see pics and videos of the process.
Smooth Organic Carvings ….. and lots of them!
CNC machines are awesome at making the complex easy and the interesting possible.
For a recent project we produced many multiples of organic double-sided carvings in locally salvaged walnut hardwood. As these were for a series of awards, the price point on each had to stay within the modest budget while looking amazing.
Read more to see the story on how we efficiently produced these complex parts.
Felt Cutting Services
We’re exited to announce our new CNC Felt cutting services from Secret Weapon Workshop to empower your acoustic and decorative designs.
In this blog post we talk about formats, sizes, colors, and more and show some recent examples of some awesome felt projects we’ve completed.
Revit to CNC Digital Fabrication
We’ve been using Autodesk Revit for digital fabrication since 2007.
There’s several ways you can leverage Revit’s BIM data for CNC fabrication. In this blog post we’ll review some of the different ones we use and go into a little detail on each.
When used correctly Revit + CNC based production is a fantastic and productive combination both for the more complex and the more pragmatic parts of a build.
Welcome to Secret Weapon Workshop
The new DfMA for AECO and Digital Fabrication brand from BWC.
We’re bringing our 15+ years of fabrication experience to help empower construction projects of all sizes to be more efficient, effective, and profitable. Even when taking on complex challenges and tight budgets we’ll help keep the design intent intact and the build process smooth.
With expert CAD modeling, experienced consulting, and in-house CNC cutting we can help you with your toughest construction projects.