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Façade cassettespro

Graduated fan cassette

The corner fan whose pleats grow one after another: from the first, almost flat, to the last, at full height. A crescendo that gives the façade a wave-like movement. Start and end heights, direction and pleat count adjustable.

Open in the studio
The same pattern, drawn by the same engine: what is on screen is what goes to the machine.
Graduated fan 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
777.8 × 539.7 mm
Material
ACM 4 mm
Folds
24
Mark
fan-progressive

Fabrication data

Graduated fan cassette — at 600 × 400 mm in 4 mm ACM, this family unfolds into a 777.8 × 539.7 mm flat pattern with 24 folds, including 1,686 mm of groove machined from the visible face, with the sheet flipped for that pass. A 1,500 × 3,200 mm sheet holds 8 of them, for 40.3 % waste.

Developed size (flat pattern)777.8 × 539.7 mm
Material per panel
0.358 m²
Folds
24
Total groove length
6,775 mm
Cutting length
3,377 mm
Corner slits
5
Corner reliefs
9

V-grooves (apex angle)

  • 90°1,376 mm
  • 22.1°721 mm
  • 13.6°657 mm
  • 6.6°615 mm
  • 32°602 mm
  • 86.8°596 mm
  • …

Panels per sheet

  • 1,220 × 2,440 mm6(27.8 % waste)
  • 1,500 × 3,200 mm8(40.3 % waste)

DXF layers

  • CONTOUR3,377 mm
  • RAINURE_902,409 mm
  • RAINURE_1351,223 mm
  • RAINURE_AVANT_135front face1,029 mm
  • RAINURE_60843 mm
  • RAINURE_AVANT_160front face657 mm
  • RAINURE_160615 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 mm400 mm
Relief height5 – 150 mm50 mm
First pleat height5 – 90 %15 %
Number of pleats3 – 12 7
Growth directionFrom the right edge to the top / From the top to the right edgeFrom the right edge to the top
Return depth0 – 200 mm40 mm
Fixing tabs—✓
Tab width10 – 60 mm20 mm

PresetsCrescendo, 7 pleatsDecrescendoGentle growth

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. The pleats start from the corner, a vertex of the outline: the angles around it do not make a full turn, so there is no saddle limit and each pleat can have its own height. The set height is that of the tallest pleat; the others are a growing fraction of it, starting from the first pleat height.

Further reading