CMC Usage

in our backyard

Mars Kipp

Locations

• Throughout dogpatch, bayview financial district of SF
• Metal and wood manufactures
• Either receiving a quote to create things or taking classes / using the machinery yourself
• Humanmade SF
• Design TriFecta

Humanmade SF

• Humanmade SF is a fabrication shop where you yourself can use the machinery, computers and applications to create and design whatever comes up in your imagination
• Obviously most people don’t know how to use these machines so they host classes and tutorials.
• Hosts a wood shop, metal shop and hot shop similarly to our school
• Lathing, turning, sawing, bending, welding, drilling, designing, coding, sewing, testing, making is all capable at Humanmade
• 150 Hooper St #400, SF CA since 2019

Collaboration

“We are San Francisco's first Advanced Manufacturing Training center that houses the city’s most extensive open-access Design, Fabrication, and Prototyping Facility. Our mission is to empower individuals in our community to become the next generation of inventors, designers, and makers by providing access to the best training, tools, and facilities through workforce development and public training sessions.” - Humanmade SF

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Design TriFecta

• TriFecta is a furniture company based inside San Francisco using CMC machinery to make their products

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• Knife blocks to chairs and tables, they use similar methods to what we would do here at Lick

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• Using Strictly sustainable materials to create unique furniture

Furniture

• TriFecta specializes in specialty and unique furniture

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• Making Cabinets for specific rooms and spaces (Ex.)

Left: custom cabinetry for a living room centered around a fireplace

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Right: Custom shelving for a local grocery store

Discoveries

• A few things I was thinking about after researching CNC and machinery in San Francisco was why the specific location of the workshops and if they were all the same thing.
• After looking at different local and large companies, I realized that all these workshops/companies were different and did not offer the same things. A lot of companies that have access to CNC machinery use it for making small parts for larger machinery and to make major profit from it instead of for creativity
• Humanmade SF lets its customers learn at any age and continue to grow their working skills, without milking them for profit, focusing on collaboration and work ethic in each customer
• Design TriFecta, although expensive uses honest wood and metal working skills to design and make their furniture and accessories. They receive sustainable wood from Oregon with little waste in the material, receive aid through computing and have always worked by themselves in Bayview! A true HONEST local business.

Discussion

As we know, CNC machines are extremely expensive and are not something that you will see often, or everyday. A CNC machine can range from about $10,000 to $500,000, so…

If you had possession of a CNC machine, how would you use your business to contribute to the San Francisco community?

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Resources

https://www.designtrifecta.com/custom-work-portfolio

https://www.designtrifecta.com/process-design

https://www.designtrifecta.com/our-story

https://www.humanmade.org/

https://www.humanmade.org/facility

https://www.google.com/maps/search/cnc+services+near+me/@37.7798975,-122.5035219,12z

https://www.elitemetaltools.com/tool-shop/products/knuth-portalo-c-cnc-gantry-type-milling-machine?sku=170145&gclid=CjwKCAiAv9ucBhBXEiwA6N8nYCMqds9SnEbLhsuRlo1uo2xkFfaxBHSprcMix0C5rxaE7-uY_-kmMhoC7M4QAvD_BwE

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