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Perforated fan cassette
The pleated fan, its facets drilled with small circles in a staggered pattern: the relief keeps its shadows, the perforation lets light through. Diameter, pitch, pattern and gradient adjustable; holes too close to a fold or an edge are removed and reported.
Open in the studio
ACM 3D Studio
- Developed
- 761.9 × 533 mm
- Material
- ACM 4 mm
- Folds
- 18
- Mark
- fan-perforated
Fabrication data
Perforated fan cassette — at 600 × 400 mm in 4 mm ACM, this family unfolds into a 761.9 × 533 mm flat pattern with 18 folds, including 1,168 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 40.4 % waste.
- Material per panel
- 0.358 m²
- Folds
- 18
- Total groove length
- 5,777 mm
- Cutting length
- 3,101 mm
- Corner slits
- 3
- Corner reliefs
- 7
- Drill holes
- 919
V-grooves (apex angle)
- 90°1,612 mm
- 25.4°721 mm
- 17.9°633 mm
- 81.5°596 mm
- 23.9°567 mm
- 19°447 mm
- …
Panels per sheet
- 1,220 × 2,440 mm6(27.9 % waste)
- 1,500 × 3,200 mm8(40.4 % waste)
DXF layers
- CONTOUR3,101 mm
- RAINURE_902,411 mm
- RAINURE_60998 mm
- RAINURE_AVANT_135front face721 mm
- RAINURE_160633 mm
- RAINURE_135567 mm
- RAINURE_AVANT_160front face447 mm
- PERCAGE× 919
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
| Parameters | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 200 – 3,000 mm | 600 mm |
| Height | 200 – 3,000 mm | 400 mm |
| Relief height | 5 – 150 mm | 30 mm |
| Fold origin | Bottom-left corner / Centre | Bottom-left corner |
| Number of pleats | 3 – 12 | 5 |
| Centre extra height | 0 – 200 mm | 10 mm |
| Return depth | 0 – 200 mm | 40 mm |
| Fixing tabs | — | ✓ |
| Tab width | 10 – 60 mm | 20 mm |
| Circular perforation | — | ✓ |
| Perforated facets | Main facet / All | All |
| Pattern | Grid / Staggered | Staggered |
| Pitch | 8 – 120 mm | 14 mm |
| Largest diameter | 2 – 60 mm | 5 mm |
| Smallest diameter | 1 – 60 mm | 3 mm |
| Diameter gradient | None / Linear / Radial / By available space | None |
| Gradient direction | 0 – 360 ° | 45 ° |
| Invert (large holes at the edge) | — | — |
| Solid margin | 5 – 100 mm | 12 mm |
PresetsSmall circles Ø 5Very fine Ø 3, denseGradient in each pleatFrom the centre, 8 pleats
Manufacturing constraints
- The return must exceed the groove width plus half the bend deduction, or the groove eats into the return.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Holes at the given pitch: the largest hole is reduced to keep at least the contour tool diameter of material between neighbours; every hole fits inside the facet minus the margin. Holes smaller than the contour tool are drilled (PERCAGE layer).
- The edge margin must cover half the bend deduction (the fold axis moves into the facet) plus half the widest groove, or a hole bites into the V-groove.
- Holes stay inside their facet, clear of grooves and edges: towards the origin of the pleats, where the facets narrow, they are removed — never silently, every removed hole is counted. Fewer pleats or smaller circles keep more of them.