Connect Four cnc/laser

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This strategy game is a plain classic! It can be played by rather small children, and mastered by adults as it's a two-player game with perfect information. To create the swivel foot makes the construction easy to store. The build was done on a desktop cnc-machine from Stepcraft from 6.5 mm beech plywood using a spiral-toothed 1.2 mm flute. The funnel walls are made from 3 mm poplar plywood. I did cut them with a cutter knife, just because it was much faster. The dark gaming pieces are colored by wood stain, the white ones with acrylic spray-paint. Visit https://www.zenziwerken.de/en/ for more interesting designs. How I Designed This With this rough sketch I worked out the basic principle of the swivel foot. Using Solid Edge 2D I created the 3-side-view. As all parts are 2D the result is already the production data. The red lines show the position of the game pieces and the initial geometry. Then I made a 3d-model to get an impression of the design.