MultiCam Boardroom - Part 14

The pictures below show the board room finished, save for the plexiglass insert in the table.

The LED lights under the valance have finally been activated, the last of the ceiling tiles repainted (some for the third time) and all the little dings and misses touched up. The room looks pretty special. It's certainly not what people expect when they first come through the doors!

In fact, people have trouble believing the beams, pipes and gauges aren’t rusty steel and copper. The many pieces fit together perfectly, each complimenting and working with the other. The branding is continuous through the entire boardroom (and the rest of the facility). While potential buyers of CNC machines may visit different sales offices, this will be the one that sticks in their mind. The things that the software and CNC machines are capable of are evident at every turn.

MultiCam Boardroom - Part 13

At this point, the room was nearly finished.

The last of the details for the TV surround were nearly complete. We used the CNC router to cut the ornate brackets for the pipes with come down behind the TV. The brackets and rivets were cut from 40 lb. Precision Board. One pipe actually carries the low voltage wires for the LED's which light up the gages around the TV. The rest are purely for decoration.

At this point, the curved and riveted ceiling look fantastic, well worth the many hours of work it took to accomplish. The cork floor (still very dusty in the photographs here blends into the whole scheme of things marvelously.

We've yet to route, paint and install a base board shoe to cover the edges of the floating cork floor.

Once we hooked up the wires for the LED's around the TV it was instant magic!

Multicam Boardroom - Part 12

With the painting in the MultiCam boardroom nearly wrapped up we turned our attention to the rooms smaller details.

For instance, a large LED TV needed to be mounted to the end wall opposite the white board. We measured the television carefully and set to work designing a frame that will fit into the theme of the room. Importantly we made certain not to block any venting or disrupt the operation of the TV controls.

The vector and routing files for the tv surround were created in EnRoute. To continue the theme, an 'M' was to be embossed into the face of the gages. Our plan was to print some faces for the gages and glue them in (behind plexiglass) as we assembled the TV surround.

As we often do, we mocked up the various bits and pieces of the TV surround as soon as they came off the CNC router. Everything was routed from 30 lb. Precision Board. The gages are cut in two pieces and had a red LED inside to give them a nice glow.

We wanted the green liquid in the tube beside the TV to be translucent so we could light it from the bottom. We used gel candle wax. The wax is clear and forms bubbles when you poured it. It took a couple of tries to get the colour right. We needed to ensure that the LED at the bottom of the tube needed to thew light but was not be visible through the liquid.

As for the gauges, we hogged out enough space for the LED's in the bottom of the gages and drilled a raceway to thread a hidden wire to all the lights, angling them up at a 45 degree angle. Once we strung the wire through the frame, it looked pretty cool.