In celebration of International Women’s Day this week we thought it would be awesome to invite Vectric’s newest member of the team, Niamh, into the labs to machine her first project that she designed in VCarve!

Niamh wanted to create a laptop stand that is pretty versatile, allowing you to take your work with you on the sofa and still have the luxuries to be able to sit comfortably at your desk with your laptop at eye level.

Stay tuned to learn about the key features of this design in vcarve software, where Beki will talk about the variety of toolpaths used in the project, from looking at multi-tool pocketing, the auto inlay feature, the chamfer toolpath, two-sided machining, and many more!

The project is made of Plywood and has clear acrylic in places. The stand itself has quite a lot going on, to help with the practicalities of work-life, there is a recess that runs the majority of the length of the stand to allow you to easily slot in tablets and phones, where there is a cut through track that enables you to charge your devices without being restricted to a particular area. There is a chamfered recess to put pens and general bits and bobs in place and a pocket recess to slot in a mouse mat. We created two versions of the stand one that is totally personalized to Niamhs taste, so in the laptop space (left side of the stand) Niamh added in a name for personalization and wanted to bring in some of her musical personality so we have a 2.5D Cassette that has come to life thanks to the pocket toolpath (check out the files to see how they were created) We machined the cassette detail so that it is sunken into the material by the thickness of the acrylic where we inlaid the acrylic on top of the cassette to give a nod to the simplistic beauty and memory of the cassette, how I miss sticking my finger in the spool of the cassette and winding the tape that had come loose! For the Vectric versions, we simply have the Vectric logo vcarved in the center of the left-hand side with some cut-through detail for decoration and to help with airflow.

The stands are raised up with slot together legs that slot into the underside of the laptop stand, we went for a rocket base style (trapeze-like shape) and with Niamh’s version we extended the cassette theme to the legs too, to echo the design throughout and so we inlaid acrylic into these areas also and we think they look great! Overall the laptop stand measures up at 26” x 13” x 8”.

If you fancy having a go at this project take a look at the video and take some time to look at the files too, there are quite a few toolpaths in there where I have organized them by tools and ultimately merged them for convenience when machining. As this project involves slotting parts together along with Inlays please make sure you have a test area to ensure all of your tolerances are correct for the material and tools you are using.

I hope you enjoy making this project, we would love to see your version of this project so please make sure to tag us across our social media channels or upload images of your project to the Vectric forum!

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