Medieval Castle: Behind the scenes design process

The Medieval Castle I designed for exposition at Trotec’s booth in the International Toy Fair took several turns, I was constrained to design something to fit a pre-defined footprint, I tried to work around this by expanding it higher-up but didn’t envision the wall behind the ledge which is probably why you see the photos of the Medieval Castle not fully glued in the middle.

The laser cut wooden Medieval Castle was quite a project for Trotec to cut and assemble… the finished project had 268 pieces which needed to be glued over 8 MDF board sheets measuring 38.4cm x 79cm! This was a huge project not just to assemble but the finished project that was almost a meter long and half a meter high! The assembly instructions themselves are over 12 pages long… with high quality renders and naming conventions.

Below is the design evolution for the Medieval Castle followed by the video Trotec produced showing my castle being cut by their amazing laser cutter.

Medieval Castle: Behind the Scenes Design Evolution (720HD)

Laser cutting MDF – Trotec SP1500 – file designed by woodmarvels.com

This is a great promotional video produced by Trotec showing the cutting of the castle on their amazing SP1500 laser cutting machine!