Assemblies
Grouped by kind: Homes · Rooms · Machines
The shelves hold one connection each — a joint, a latch, a gear pair. An assembly is several of them composed into a thing that stands, spans or drives, and each one cites the rows it is built from, so the detail of any joint is one click away on its own page.
44 of 44 built. Each model comes apart in the order it goes together.
- NEMA 17 cycloidal gearbox
A robot-joint reducer built from the shelves: a stepper, a two-disc 10:1 cycloidal, two bought bearings and M3 screws. Every printed part and every screw is on the bill of materials.
Built from G1-01 · M2-01 · M2-02 · M3-01 · T1-07
- Pergola bay
Four posts, two beams, knee braces and rafters in timber-frame joinery; the model comes apart in the order it is raised.
Built from A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-22 · A2-05 · A2-09 · A2-18 · A4-14 · F5-13
- Timber roof trusses
King post, queen post, scissor, hammerbeam, cruck and arch-braced collar in one generator — every joint a catalogue row, pegged, and the frame comes apart in the order it was assembled. Proportions are illustrative, not engineered.
Built from A6-23 · A6-24 · A6-25 · A6-26 · A6-27 · A6-28 · A6-12 · A6-13 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-03 · A2-04
- Ground-driven seed meter
A printed plate seed meter driven by its own ground wheel through a chain, a one-way clutch, a torque limiter and a bevel pair, with interchangeable plates for twenty crops. Push frame or toolbar; every size a parameter.
Built from G5-01 · G5-02 · T1-14 · T1-20 · T1-23 · T1-08
- Betz's Mill
A Pennsylvania German gristmill of about 1770: an overshot wheel drives two pairs of millstones through a train of wooden gears — a 60-cog face wheel, a 24-round lantern, a 54-cog face wheel and a 13-round lantern — mounted in an oak hurst frame. From the Historic American Engineering Record, which found the gearing intact.
Built from T1-15 · T1-24 · M2-11 · M2-12 · A6-75 · A6-76 · A6-77 · A6-78 · A6-79 · A6-80 · A6-81 · A6-02 · A6-22
- Peirce Mill
The gristmill in Rock Creek Park, Washington: an overshot wheel drives two pairs of millstones through the classic English train — a pit wheel, a lantern wallower, an upright shaft and a great spur wheel driving two stone nuts — in an oak hurst. Modelled with its whole site from the 2014 lidar: the race, the flume and its gate, the tailrace and the creek, the gears turning to the water let through the gate and slowed by the tail water. From the Historic American Buildings Survey's drawings of 1990.
Built from T1-15 · T1-16 · A6-79 · A6-94 · A6-81 · A6-80 · M2-13 · A6-22 · A6-02 · C6-25
- Pennsylvania bank barn
A timber-framed barn on a stone stable level, banked into the slope with a forebay overhang — proportioned from the Historic American Buildings Survey's measured drawings of a real Pennsylvania barn. The slider is the barn raising: bents stand up one at a time, then the plates, purlins and rafters.
Built from A6-29 · A6-30 · A6-31 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-17 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22
- Plain farmhouse
A simple two-story Pennsylvania farmhouse in the same pegged timber frame as the barn — stone cellar, summer beams, a front porch and the Dawdi Haus, the grandparents' wing. Proportioned from the Historic American Buildings Survey's measured drawings; the slider raises it.
Built from A6-32 · A3-16 · A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-05 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-20 · A6-12 · A6-19
- Wanton-Hunter House
A Newport house of about 1746 from its measured drawings, framed and pegged under a gambrel roof: a center hall between two bents, two chimney stacks the floors and roof are framed around, a stair round an open well to both upper floors.
Built from A6-33 · A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-05 · A6-02 · A6-20 · A6-19 · A3-16 · A2-08 · A4-14 · A2-07 · A2-03
- Foster-Armstrong House
The wood-frame part of a 1790s New Jersey house from its measured drawings, framed and pegged under a Dutch gambrel: the rafters butted on a purlin that stands on a braced knee wall in the attic, a tie beam beside every pair.
Built from A6-34 · A6-30 · A2-04 · A6-12 · A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-05 · A6-02 · A6-20 · A6-19 · A3-16 · A2-08 · A4-14 · A2-07 · A2-03
- Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
Two spans of Town lattice truss across the Connecticut River, 450 ft, built in 1866 from squared spruce notched and bolted at every crossing — the last bridge in the country framed that way. From its measured drawings, as built.
Built from A6-35 · A6-36 · A6-20 · A2-04
- Shaker Meeting House, Mount Lebanon
The Shakers' 1824 meeting house: a 63 ft room with no post in it under seven arched trusses, each principal rafter four planks bent and laminated, pinned by radiating prince posts to a double tie beam and a curved ceiling rafter. From its measured drawings.
Built from A6-37 · A6-22 · A6-02 · A2-04 · A2-16
- Thoreau’s house at Walden
The ten-by-fifteen-foot frame Henry Thoreau hewed from white pines by Walden Pond in 1845, every stick “carefully mortised or tenoned by its stump.” From his own account in Walden; the roof’s slope from the 1854 title page.
Built from A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-02 · A4-14 · A6-20 · A6-19 · A2-07 · A2-08
- John Imlay Mansion
A Georgian house of 1790 from its measured drawings, framed and pegged: a center hall, a spine of posts under the ridge, two chimney stacks the floors and roof are framed around, a garret with three dormers, a dog-leg stair, and a kitchen and an office wing, each with its own chimney.
Built from A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-05 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-20 · A6-12 · A6-19 · A3-16 · A2-08 · A4-14 · A2-07 · A2-03
- Comfort Starr House
A New England saltbox from its measured drawings, framed and pegged in oak: a two-story frame round a great stone chimney, a principal-and-purlin roof with wind braces, and a lean-to added behind under a long, flatter roof.
Built from A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-05 · A6-02 · A6-32 · A3-16 · A2-08 · A6-01 · A6-23 · A6-10 · A6-11 · A6-38 · A6-12 · A6-20 · A6-19 · A6-39 · A2-03
- Atwood-Higgins House
A Cape Cod house from its measured drawings: one story and an attic under a steep roof, walls of vertical pine planks spiked to sill and plate with no studs behind them, and a roof of pine trusses with purlins let into their backs.
Built from A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-02 · A6-05 · A6-32 · A6-01 · A6-23 · A6-12 · A6-09 · A6-19 · A4-14 · A3-16 · A2-03
- Mason Farmhouse
A Greek Revival farmhouse from its measured drawings: a story-and-a-half upright with its gable to the road, a one-story wing beside it with a porch set in behind two square columns, and a kitchen ell whose roof meets the wing's in valleys.
Built from A2-03 · A2-07 · A2-08 · A3-16 · A4-14 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-12 · A6-17 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-32
- Chester Moffett House
A Greek Revival farmhouse from its measured drawings: a two-story centre with its pediment to the road and a story-and-a-half wing either side, a porch set into the back of each wing.
Built from A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-02 · A6-05 · A6-03 · A4-14 · A3-16 · A2-08 · A6-20 · A6-12 · A6-19 · A2-07 · A2-03
- Watervliet Shaker Cow and Hay Barn
The Shakers' cow and hay barn at Watervliet, New York, from its measured drawings: ten bays over a stone cellar, hay mows two floors deep, and a driveway on the top floor that a loaded wagon reaches by a ramp, so the hay only ever goes down.
Built from A6-22 · A6-05 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-30 · A6-20 · A6-19 · A6-17 · A2-16 · A3-16 · A4-14 · A6-29
- Shawver Plank-Frame Dairy Barn
A 100 by 40 ft dairy barn framed entirely of 2-in lumberyard plank on John L. Shawver's system of 1904: an 8-ft plank basement for the cows, a gambrel loft for the hay held up by Shawver's truss — an arch of single planks bolted through doubled posts — with no interior posts to get in the way of the hay fork, and no plank longer than 24 ft.
Built from A10-49 · A10-50 · A10-51 · A10-52 · A10-53 · A10-54 · A10-55 · A10-56 · A10-57 · A10-58 · A10-59 · A10-60 · A10-61 · A10-08 · A10-27
- Johannes Decker Barn
A New World Dutch barn from the Hudson Valley: six H-shaped bents, each a pair of tall posts locked together by a great anchor beam whose tenons run through the posts and out past them, wedged. A threshing floor down the middle under a high hay loft; the animals in low aisles either side. Framed from the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Built from A6-21 · A6-66 · A6-67 · A6-82 · A6-83 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-17 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-11 · A2-16 · A10-08
- De Clerque Barn
A New World Dutch barn from Bergen County, New Jersey: five H-shaped bents, each a pair of tall posts joined at the eaves by an anchor beam whose tenons run through the posts and are cut off flush and pinned. A board threshing floor between the posts; the wagon doors in both gables; the aisles either side low and narrow. Framed from the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Built from A6-87 · A6-88 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-11 · A6-17 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A2-07 · A2-16 · A10-04 · A6-83
- Watervliet Brothers’ Dormitory
The Shakers' Brothers’ Dormitory at Watervliet, New York, from its measured drawings: two stories of plain frame on a stone cellar, two front doors each into its own stair hall, and an attic behind a knee wall where one king-post truss stands on the attic floor.
Built from A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-02 · A6-05 · A6-13 · A6-23 · A6-24 · A6-03 · A3-16 · A2-08 · A6-20 · A6-19 · A2-07 · A2-03
- The West Family Workshop (the Broom Shop)
The Watervliet Shakers' West Family broom shop: four floors of brick over a stone cellar, and inside them the timber of its floors and roof and the hoist that lifted work through a well in every floor, drawn part by part in 1941.
Built from A2-08 · A2-16 · A3-16 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-11 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-30 · A6-52 · A7-02
- Benjamin Church House
A Greek Revival temple-front cottage in Milwaukee, from its measured drawings: one story, a portico of four fluted Doric columns under a roof hipped over it, and a hipped bedroom wing either side.
Built from A6-17 · A6-22 · A6-02 · A6-05 · A6-03 · A4-14 · A3-16 · A2-08 · A6-20 · A6-19 · A6-40 · A2-07 · A2-03
- Inge-Stoneham House
A Texas Greek Revival house of the 1850s from its measured drawings: one story under a hipped roof, a gabled portico on two columns, and a wing of plank walls — box construction — behind, the roofs run together along valleys.
Built from A2-07 · A3-16 · A4-14 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-17 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-40 · A6-41 · A6-44 · A6-45 · A6-46 · A6-47 · A6-48 · A6-49
- William Hadwen House
A Nantucket Greek Revival house of 1844–45 from its measured drawings: two stories under a hipped roof carried on a ring of purlin plates, and a portico of four columns two stories tall whose pediment runs back into the roof.
Built from A2-07 · A2-08 · A3-16 · A4-14 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-11 · A6-17 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-30 · A6-40 · A6-48 · A6-50
- Finnish log house
A Finnish settler’s hewn-log house from the cutover of northern Wisconsin: 18 by 24 ft, a story and a half of hemlock logs dovetailed flush at the corners and log to the ridge. The Matt Johnson Log House, 1898, from its National Register nomination and one photograph.
Built from A4-32 · A4-33 · A4-34 · A4-35 · A6-11 · A6-20
- The Louis Bolduc House
The Louis Bolduc House at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, built about 1792: hewn oak posts standing on a sill with clay and straw between them, six king-post trusses, and a roof that breaks to a flatter pitch and runs out over a gallery on all four sides. Framed from the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Built from A7-11 · A7-12 · A7-13 · A7-14 · A7-15 · A7-16 · A7-17 · A7-18 · A7-19 · A7-01 · A6-17 · A2-16 · A2-07 · A2-08
- NLMA House, 1929
The model house the lumber manufacturers drew in 1929 to show how a frame house goes together: two stories and an attic under a hipped roof, framed western — each story on its own floor platform — in the dimension lumber of the day.
Built from A2-03 · A2-16 · A3-16 · A6-02 · A6-04 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-40 · A6-43 · A6-48 · A10-01 · A10-03 · A10-06 · A10-07 · A10-08 · A10-09 · A10-10 · A10-13 · A10-15 · A10-16 · A10-17 · A10-19 · A10-20 · A10-21 · A10-22 · A10-23 · A10-24
- John C. Cowing House
An Illinois farmhouse of about 1855, surveyed to show balloon framing: studs one length from the sill to the plate, a ribbon let into them carrying the upper floor, joists nailed to the studs.
Built from A2-16 · A4-14 · A6-20 · A10-10 · A10-11 · A10-20 · A10-23 · A10-25 · A10-26 · A10-27 · A10-28 · A10-29
- The Lace House
A Carpenter Gothic cottage of 1863 in a Colorado mining town: a gable to the street, a wing under a cross gable, a story and a half under steep roofs, framed as the balloon frames of its day were.
Built from A2-16 · A6-20 · A6-41 · A10-01 · A10-02 · A10-10 · A10-11 · A10-20 · A10-23 · A10-26 · A10-27 · A10-28 · A10-29
- The Chisholm House
An early Foursquare of 1889–90 in a Maryland railroad suburb: a square house under a hipped roof with three dormers, a two-story bay with a canted corner and a sun room built into one corner, and a porch across the front, balloon framed.
Built from A2-03 · A2-08 · A2-16 · A2-23 · A3-16 · A6-02 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-40 · A6-41 · A6-43 · A6-48 · A10-01 · A10-02 · A10-08 · A10-10 · A10-11 · A10-15 · A10-17 · A10-20 · A10-22 · A10-23 · A10-27 · A10-29 · A10-30 · A10-31 · A10-32 · A10-33
- The Hinckley House
A Queen Anne house of 1886 in Hinsdale, Illinois, from its measured drawings: a hipped roof with cross gables, a corner turret (a canted bay under a round top story and a cone) and a wraparound porch on Ionic columns, balloon framed.
Built from A2-08 · A2-16 · A2-23 · A6-02 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-39 · A6-40 · A6-41 · A6-43 · A6-48 · A6-49 · A6-57 · A10-01 · A10-02 · A10-08 · A10-10 · A10-11 · A10-15 · A10-20 · A10-22 · A10-26 · A10-28 · A10-29 · A10-30 · A10-33 · A10-34 · A10-35 · A10-36 · A10-37 · A10-39
- The House of the Seasons
An Italianate villa of about 1872 in Jefferson, Texas, named for the cupola on its roof, each side glazed in the colour of a season: a truncated hip behind a parapet, a captain’s walk, a portico and a gallery, balloon framed.
Built from A2-16 · A2-23 · A4-14 · A6-05 · A6-20 · A6-40 · A10-08 · A10-10 · A10-11 · A10-15 · A10-20 · A10-25 · A10-26 · A10-29 · A10-30 · A10-32 · A10-33 · A10-40 · A10-41 · A10-42 · A10-43 · A10-44
- The Gamble House
The Gamble House in Pasadena, framed as Greene & Greene drew it in February 1908: a platform frame on redwood sills, a second story overhanging the first, roofs at four ridge heights on deep eaves, and a billiard room astride the main ridge.
Built from A2-16 · A6-12 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-41 · A6-48 · A6-63 · A6-65 · A10-03 · A10-07 · A10-08 · A10-13 · A10-15 · A10-17 · A10-21 · A10-46 · A10-47 · A10-48
- Homestead House, Concept A
A concept design, the first house of a custom timber-frame homes system: a Pennsylvania-farmhouse main block with a saltbox lean-to and a Cape wing, oak sills and posts and green eastern white pine above.
Built from A2-07 · A2-08 · A2-16 · A2-23 · A3-16 · A4-14 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-12 · A6-13 · A6-17 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-23 · A6-24 · A6-32 · A6-39 · A6-43 · A6-44 · A6-48 · A6-51
- Homestead Shop, Concept A
A concept design: the garage and timber shop a crew raises first. Six knee-braced bents of oak posts under a ridge beam, a loft over the garage half, and crane beams carrying a hoist track through a covered framing yard, in green eastern white pine under ag steel.
Built from A2-07 · A2-08 · A2-16 · A3-16 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-17 · A6-19 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-30 · A6-48
- Homestead Greenhouse, Concept A
A concept design: a 60 by 30 foot greenhouse over a sunken orchard, bur oak king-post trusses carrying cedar glazing bars on the south and an insulated north roof, with a bath house and tub deck at its east end. No pine: it is humid inside.
Built from A2-07 · A2-16 · A3-16 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-06 · A6-09 · A6-11 · A6-13 · A6-17 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-23 · A6-24 · A6-25 · A6-30 · A6-44 · A6-48 · A6-54 · A6-55
- Homestead Hub, Concept A
A concept design: the utility building and covered works of a homestead. Three shipping containers under one timber roof, oak posts on their own piers and green pine above, with the containers carrying no part of the frame.
Built from A2-07 · A2-16 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-05 · A6-13 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-24 · A6-25 · A6-30 · A6-51 · A6-54
- Homestead Outdoor Kitchen, Concept A
A concept design: an open timber pavilion for cooking and eating outdoors, two king-post gables on five oak posts and green pine rafters to a ridge board, over a masonry cook wall with a wood-fired oven.
Built from A2-08 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-12 · A6-13 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-23 · A6-24 · A6-25 · A6-44 · A6-48 · A6-54
- Homestead Walkway and Woodshed, Concept A
A concept design: an enclosed timber walkway from the house to the greenhouse, a bridge on four oak posts over the tunnel below it with the outdoor kitchen's roof carried over it on two valleys, and across the court a woodshed, a lean-to open to the south sun.
Built from A2-03 · A2-07 · A6-02 · A6-03 · A6-06 · A6-20 · A6-22 · A6-44 · A6-48 · A6-54 · A6-56
- Homestead Bunkers, Concept A
A concept design: a homestead's rooms below grade, with shipping containers used as the inner form of reinforced-concrete shells: a tunnel from the house to the workshop between two poured stair shafts, a cellar of three containers behind a tested shelter door, and a tunnel to the greenhouse.
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- Cabinet system
A plywood cabinet built round the boxes it holds. Set each bay to a box's size and the spacing round it; the cells, the columns, the cut list and the sheet count follow. Every column is one uncut sheet, three sheets thick.
Built from A2-20