Yesterday I needed to draw a plan I would send off to the folks who were cutting us a thick glass coffee table top. We had hand sculpted the base of the table to look like the 400 year old trees of a plantation my clients had visited in Florida. When they told me of the trees I imagined the stories those old trees might have told if they could talk. And so I sculpted fourteen faces into the trunk of the tree.
When the sculpt was finished I moulded threaded rods into the tips of three branches. These would accept the studs with caps that would hold the tempered glass in place.
I then carefully measured the distance between the three center points of the studs and then used these measurements to generate the placement of the holes and arcs of the tabletop edge.
I then created the outline of the table using these radii and the straight lines being tangent to them. The hole outlines were also located using the intersection of the lines and measurements.
When I deleted the unwanted lines I was left with the table outline and the holes in the right place. This file I saved as a DXF file which I forwarded to the glass shop for cutting with their water jet cutter.
I look forward to seeing this project done.
-dan
