Hi

"Rob Stokes" skrev i en meddelelse
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Pine, fir, hemlock, balsam etc....

Ok I se, but each specie have specific ability , Oak is not best suieted for a
boat deck and Spruce , or fastgrown Douglas also in specific use be the best
specie for that.
My argument is, that I rather se a mixed Ash , Oak forest mixed other leaf
trees, but to do so, Chipwood sheets from fast grown forest groth is the best
protection of the species left. From a Design stand point, things just get
easyer with worse sheet than Douglas, ------- still Chipwood can be produced
from straw ,producing just the right material for Digital use, sheet material.
Protect the forest ,produce what technology provide and this reduce the demand
for Timber. Today Timbers are all about strait frame and sheet material anyway
so why not protect the good use of the Forest we humans have. Still
Boatbuilding is not the only craft, that made profit of 3D calculations
Carpenters even would say a boat, with crossing members of wood that expand and
scrink, must not be done as in a boat, ------------------- sort of the
difference between a boatbuilder and a Carpenter. Guess you can be both . Still
a Boatbuilder must have a different Vision doing boat hulls in wood, that's
nothing but planks, ribs and nails.
Still if industries can't se the direction technology is providing the Oak and
Ash will suffer so will the Redwood and the tropical , on Borneo in the 30'
there was 4000 species of "Mahogony" , we boatbuilders was responsable to know
what from what.
Still if anyone want to make money today, it's out of the Pyramides, and se a
promise of a bright future, jobs and progress.
Due new obvious technology, protecting homeland Forest with top technology .
3D-H provide a nice cutting edge technology to provide 3D structures from sheet
material please follow the links and you wioll se that with the options in
Digital production and standard sheet materials , you can still find new
designs. Highrise like WTC one and two proberly would not be rebuild in the
same way, but if what is build must point to the future, it is my oppinion ,that
the Design must some way carry this promise of a bright future, protecting the
Oak and Ash trees is enough reson for me, Anyway please check a few links if
3D-H and direct link production methods sound interesting ;

http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/2663.html
http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/2648.html
http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/2649.html
http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/2647.html

Now if you ask the modern paralell for a small house ,in the framework 3D-H
provide as an assembly for a Cabin at a third the cost, four times as strong, in
steel sheet assembly framework full scale ,an assembly house if this is what you
want but be aware it cheap and good ;

http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/2573.html

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http://www.designcommunity.com/scrapbook/2577.html

P.C.
Reson Dinusaurs get rusty is that they are made out of steel.