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Farizon branded goalpost: an 8 m span and a beam that must not read as bowed
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Build log of AxisMod, the modular production platform: decisions, generative engine, configurators, production files. Plus automation and code behind the scenes: Python, workshop scripts, self-hosting, AI agents.
AxisModDev log ·
What is behind the logo: choosing the fascia system before the colour
Everyone argues about the logo and the colour. The system behind the face decides flatness, joints, depth, access and most of the price. How the AxisMod fascia module prices that choice.
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AxisModDev log ·
The baffle you actually buy: profile, edge, end caps and perforation
A client picks wooden baffles and the rest is called detail. Profile, edge, end caps and perforation are most of the price and all of the acoustics, so module 01 of AxisMod prices them as they are chosen.
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AxisModDev log ·
What the ceiling hangs from: drop, suspension and the points nobody counts
How the AxisMod baffle module turns the suspension system into a priced decision: drop, a counted point grid, a section that agrees with the plan, and why hanging things are measured from the top.
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Manufacturing
News and practice from the shop floor: CNC, laser, wide-format print, materials, machines and trade shows.
ManufacturingDeep dive ·
Plexi that does not crack: specifying acrylic for signage and fit-out
Cast or extruded, five millimetres of movement per metre, drills ground to scrape, annealing before the glue: what belongs on the drawing when a job uses acrylic.
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ManufacturingDeep dive ·
Flat patterns that survive the press brake
What decides the size of a folded part: K-factor and bend allowance, die width, minimum flange, grain direction, reliefs and the tolerances a brake can actually hold.
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ManufacturingDeep dive ·
ACM for signage: specify the panel, not just the colour
A practical guide to aluminium composite in signage: skins and cores, routing and folding, fixing and movement, fire classification in Ireland and the UK, and the real cost of a finished panel.
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AI
Artificial intelligence in design and production: AI-assisted CAD, generative 3D, office automation, new models and tools.
AINews ·
Photoshop and Acrobat called from a chat window: what I would and would not hand over
Adobe tools can now be driven from Gemini, and the Claude plugin added Acrobat. Where that helps on proposals and tender PDFs, and why production artwork stays in the app.
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AINews ·
AI news from mid-September: an assistant inside Inventor, vectors from a prompt in CorelDRAW
Autodesk showed new AI for Fusion, Inventor and Vault, and CorelDRAW added text-to-vector. What changes for someone who draws signage and fit-out for production.
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AIDeep dive ·
AI images in client work: what now has to be labelled
Since August, a generated image that could pass for a photograph has to be declared. What that means for signage visuals, survey photos, tender packs and handover files.
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Signage & spatial branding
3D letters, pylons, fascias, LED and standards. Trends in visual branding and projects worth learning from.
SignageCase study ·
Farizon branded goalpost: an 8 m span and a beam that must not read as bowed
Case study of an eight-metre display gate for Farizon: reconciling a clean silhouette with asymmetric supports, a heavier left leg and lighting that has to work by day and by night.
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3D & CAD
Visualisation, rendering, Rhino, SolidWorks, Blender and photoreal 3D in the browser. A technical designer's workbench.
3D & CADDeep dive ·
The model that takes a revision: building CAD so version two costs minutes
Every signage and fit-out job gets revised. How to structure a parametric model so a 300 mm change, a thinner panel or the twentieth site costs minutes instead of a redraw.
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3D & CADDeep dive ·
Files that arrive intact: CAD handover between the architect, my desk and the workshop
A model is only worth what survives the export. What I accept from an architect, what I send to a metal shop and a CNC router, and the format mistakes that pay for a re-cut.
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3D & CADDeep dive ·
Somebody else measured it: turning a client's survey into a model you can cut from
Every survey I work from was taken by the client. Which dimensions I ask for by name, how to model a space that is out of square, and where to leave the site error so it never reaches the visible face.
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