@@Shinobubucould you.clarify what you mean by “do booleans” I know CAD and a dozen programming languages and haven’t seen the term used as a verb before.
@@TheOfficialOriginalChad Basically you need to create some shapes and subtract them from the part you want to print, in order to remove as much material as you can but leaving the mechanism/fitting intact. The goal is to get a small test piece, so you can check if the tolerances are right before printing the whole thing. There are several ways to do it, both with cad and slicers. BTW boolean operations are basically "add/subtract/get the intersection between shape A and shape B".
I think it’s just remembering that something made for one thing (usb cables) can be repurposed for something else (power cables)… not just scaling aesthetic models
Yeah, I do it all the time for aesthetic models, but I could see not thinking about scaling up one type of practical device to get another one for a different purpose.
I force mysel into perfection and see every time content Creators with prints like that. I dint know why i force myself to make my prints look like injection molds and keep it for myself.....im too shy for making videos i guess
100% not true. Scaling by 10 a tool with a 0.3mm tolerance will scale the tolerance by 10, ending up with a 3mm tolerance, which is unusable. In most cases, scaling parts that fit together wont work at all…
Used this trick literally today. Found some simple S hooks I could use, and found that it was a little too thick/tall for my liking, so I scaled that down a bit, and then found that I needed smaller hooks for the smaller bars I had, so I scaled the whole thing down by 50% and boom, perfection.
Engineers commonly go straight to designing rather than searching for and adapting an existing solution. Even when a workable solution is found, the battle with perfectionism is a challenging one.
@@emmanuelcavalcante3451 I see engineers as problem solvers, solution experts if you will. The engineers i hire default to imagining the ideal design BEFORE finding the best solution for the given constraints. The CVs stating the following don’t make it to my desk: - “Not a perfectionist” - “bought, not built” - “I bet I’m the first engineer you’ve met”
This trick can be very useful, but always remember that any tolerance gap will scale accordingly, so mechanisms and fittings can become sloppier.
Horizontal expansion has left the chat
I often do booleans on the parts to isolate areas I want to test for tolerance. saves on filament and reprints.
@@Shinobubucould you.clarify what you mean by “do booleans”
I know CAD and a dozen programming languages and haven’t seen the term used as a verb before.
@@TheOfficialOriginalChad
Basically you need to create some shapes and subtract them from the part you want to print, in order to remove as much material as you can but leaving the mechanism/fitting intact. The goal is to get a small test piece, so you can check if the tolerances are right before printing the whole thing. There are several ways to do it, both with cad and slicers.
BTW boolean operations are basically "add/subtract/get the intersection between shape A and shape B".
@@tommythebiker3081 frrr
How can any 3d printer forget this? Its by far the easiest solution to most problems. Id say 90% of my printing gets scaled to some extent.
I think it’s just remembering that something made for one thing (usb cables) can be repurposed for something else (power cables)… not just scaling aesthetic models
Yeah, I do it all the time for aesthetic models, but I could see not thinking about scaling up one type of practical device to get another one for a different purpose.
that tel-aviv humidity!
I force mysel into perfection and see every time content Creators with prints like that.
I dint know why i force myself to make my prints look like injection molds and keep it for myself.....im too shy for making videos i guess
Not only did you print something useful but you have food too, Angel Hair Plastic Pasta anyone?
Going to scale up my mini hammers for.. research purposes.
100% not true. Scaling by 10 a tool with a 0.3mm tolerance will scale the tolerance by 10, ending up with a 3mm tolerance, which is unusable. In most cases, scaling parts that fit together wont work at all…
You don't have to scale each part the same amount bub ;)
Scaled a spool holder to fit solder spools 😁😁😁
I still want that STL
Nice😅🤣
Fun but the tolerance between parts also gets scaled lol!
Used this trick literally today. Found some simple S hooks I could use, and found that it was a little too thick/tall for my liking, so I scaled that down a bit, and then found that I needed smaller hooks for the smaller bars I had, so I scaled the whole thing down by 50% and boom, perfection.
It's not a trick. It is literally common sense.
Or use old spools for this specific case?
But then how do you keep it from unraveling…
Hey man, cool stuff. Like you videos. ❤ what do you use to film?
LUMIX cameras normally but shorts are iPhone
But will the tolerance be an issue ? If not it's a great solution
Tks, captain obvious.
Engineers commonly go straight to designing rather than searching for and adapting an existing solution. Even when a workable solution is found, the battle with perfectionism is a challenging one.
@@TheOfficialOriginalChad quite the opposite. Do you even know an engineer? If not, nice meeting you.
@@emmanuelcavalcante3451
I see engineers as problem solvers, solution experts if you will. The engineers i hire default to imagining the ideal design BEFORE finding the best solution for the given constraints.
The CVs stating the following don’t make it to my desk:
- “Not a perfectionist”
- “bought, not built”
- “I bet I’m the first engineer you’ve met”