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Faceted hexagonal cassette

Hexagonal cassette: a central apex meeting the six vertices, every other one lifted — facets alternate and the part maps onto itself every third of a turn. Laid in a honeycomb, one cassette rotated builds the whole wall.

Open in the studio
The same pattern, drawn by the same engine: what is on screen is what goes to the machine.
Faceted hexagonal cassette — 2 × 2 panel wall, single panel and flat pattern — generated by the engine with the default parameters.
2 × 2 panel wall, single panel and flat pattern — generated by the engine with the default parameters.

ACM 3D Studio

Developed
668.7 × 602.1 mm
Material
ACM 4 mm
Folds
17
Mark
hexagon-cassette

Fabrication data

Faceted hexagonal cassette — at 600 × 520 mm in 4 mm ACM, this family unfolds into a 668.7 × 602.1 mm flat pattern with 17 folds, all grooved from the back: no pass on the coated face. A 1,500 × 3,200 mm sheet holds 10 of them, for 37.1 % waste.

Developed size (flat pattern)668.7 × 602.1 mm
Material per panel
0.302 m²
Folds
17
Total groove length
4,287 mm
Cutting length
3,699 mm
Corner slits
4
Corner reliefs
5

V-grooves (apex angle)

  • 90°1,178 mm
  • 79°599 mm
  • 2.5°552 mm
  • 80.6°540 mm
  • 79.5°539 mm
  • 2.8°305 mm
  • …

Panels per sheet

  • 1,220 × 2,440 mm3(69.6 % waste)
  • 1,500 × 3,200 mm10(37.1 % waste)

DXF layers

  • CONTOUR3,699 mm
  • RAINURE_901,718 mm
  • RAINURE_1601,432 mm
  • RAINURE_1001,138 mm

The names and colours your CAM software will show. RAINURE_AVANT: fold concave on the visible face, sheet flipped for that pass.

Computed by the engine at the default parameters, on 4 mm ACM and the reference router. Your own machine and material profiles change these values in the studio.

Parameters

ParametersRangeDefault
Width200 – 3,000 mm600 mm
Height200 – 3,000 mm520 mm
Relief height20 – 150 mm55 mm
Alternate vertex lift0 – 120 mm22 mm
Hexagon orientationFlat top (points left and right) / Pointy topFlat top (points left and right)
Apex position X30 – 70 %50 %
Apex position Y30 – 70 %50 %
Return depth0 – 200 mm40 mm
Fixing tabs—✓
Tab width10 – 60 mm20 mm

PresetsLarge moduleDeep relief, high verticesFlat rim (hexagonal pyramid)

Manufacturing constraints

  1. The return must exceed the groove width plus half the bend deduction, or the groove eats into the return.
  2. Facet-to-facet folds are grooved with the smallest cutter of the profile, V left open: the angle is held by the geometry. The angle between two facets must not exceed that cutter’s apex angle.
  3. Vertical returns, all tabs flat in the −D plane (rail mounting). The facet-to-return fold is 90° ± slope: below 90°, the 90° cutter is left open and the return is held by the riveted tab; above 90° (facet descending towards the edge), a wider cutter (60° nominal = 120° apex) or the machine profile’s overfold tolerance is needed.
  4. Every raised vertex requires a V-slit to the edge (a flat sheet has 360°, the relief less). Near the vertex the slit is narrower than the contour tool: it is cut along its axis and the tool bites each facet by up to Ø/2.
  5. Tabs are shortened at every corner and every kink of the edge so they never collide behind the panel: by (return + 2 mm), and more on a sharp corner, where the bisector must be cleared (tab width ÷ tan(angle/2)). An edge too short gets no tab.
  6. Lifted vertices stay below the apex (at least 10 mm) and low enough for the apex to remain a peak (angle sum < 360°): a higher lift is brought back to the limit.

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