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Pyramid mosaic panel
A row of small pyramids per cassette; laid row upon row, they build a mosaic of diamond points on the wall, each catching the light its own way. Adjustable pyramid count, height, point position and rhythm. One slit per point, closed when folded.
Open in the studio
ACM 3D Studio
- Developed
- 1,178 × 381.1 mm
- Material
- ACM 4 mm
- Folds
- 43
- Mark
- pyramid-mosaic
Fabrication data
Pyramid mosaic panel — at 1,000 × 200 mm in 4 mm ACM, this family unfolds into a 1,178 × 381.1 mm flat pattern with 43 folds, including 800 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 46.7 % waste.
- Material per panel
- 0.32 m²
- Folds
- 43
- Total groove length
- 6,769 mm
- Cutting length
- 5,870 mm
- Corner slits
- 9
- Corner reliefs
- 7
V-grooves (apex angle)
- 70.7°2,392 mm
- 27°2,185 mm
- 90°1,392 mm
- 38.6°800 mm
Panels per sheet
- 1,220 × 2,440 mm6(35.6 % waste)
- 1,500 × 3,200 mm8(46.7 % waste)
DXF layers
- CONTOUR5,870 mm
- RAINURE_1002,392 mm
- RAINURE_1352,185 mm
- RAINURE_901,392 mm
- RAINURE_AVANT_135front face800 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
| Parameters | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 200 – 3,000 mm | 1,000 mm |
| Height | 200 – 3,000 mm | 200 mm |
| Relief height | 5 – 80 mm | 35 mm |
| Number of pyramids | 3 – 8 | 5 |
| Rhythm | All alike / Alternating points | All alike |
| Point, X position | 20 – 80 % | 50 % |
| Point, Y position | 20 – 80 % | 50 % |
| Return depth | 0 – 200 mm | 40 mm |
| Fixing tabs | — | ✓ |
| Tab width | 10 – 60 mm | 20 mm |
Presets5 pyramidsOffset points, play of lightAlternating points8 small points
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.
- A cassette carries one row; the mosaic is built on the wall, row upon row. A one-piece grid would have, at every four-pyramid junction, more than 360° of material — a saddle that no flat sheet provides without adding material.
- Every point has less than 360° of material around it: a slit runs from each to the edge and closes when folded. These are seams, not folds.
- A point does not exceed 60 % of its cell's shorter side. Taller, its facets stand so upright that the slits of two neighbouring pyramids cross in the pattern.