TinkerCad Workflows - Designing a Camera Bracket Part 1!

welcome to this edition of DIY 3d comm this is going to be a two-part episode where in the first episode I'm going to walk you through Tinkercad and making a camera mount I'm working on a new overhead camera stand and again I think it's it's pretty good going to be pretty interesting but I need a camera mount so I'm building it out of schedule 40 PVC so it's it's rather sturdy it's going to be 1/2 inch schedule 40 and I need a camera mount to attach the camera to it so I figured I've had some interest in the channel about whipping up things in Tinkercad and this is actually what I want to show is how quick we can actually whip something up in Tinkercad so one of the first things I want to do is and in the process is I'm going to use a quarter twenty bolt so the first thing I knew is that do is I need to get a hexagon here for my bolt head so what we'll do is we'll just pull one up and one of the things I've already got the measurements of my bolt head and what I'm going to be doing is the head is going to be remember I did it did a video on this there's a long side in the short side and actually the interesting thing is the calculation of this distance versus this distance you can do that by Pythagorean theorem but we're not going to get that geeky because you notice that the short dimension is 17 point 32 in the long dimension is 20 so long story short we're just going to drop this down to 12 and this down to what are we going to do thirteen point four and this is going to give I'm going to do ABS and so I've allowed a little bit of room in the ABS for that and then what we're going to do is then we're going to figure out the the head the head is actually depth wise about four millimeters so what we're going to do is we're going to come up here and take this out at four millimeters so change this to four and now we have our bolt head okay now that we had have the head made what we do is we want to create the shank shank section of the bolt so what we're going to do is pull in a cylinder and the diameter of our bolt which is a quarter twenty bolt is about six point two millimeters so I'm going to make this I'm going to give it base it basically seven point four because I want a little wick over them I don't want to have to ream this out so whoops seven point or and it's eighty millimeters tall so we'll make it 80 millimeters tall and what we'll do is we'll Center down the head and the 80 millimetres is from the head to the end of the bolt and so what we'll do is we'll just wrap this on here and we'll cheat a little bit and we'll use the align function to bring this together all right so we now have our bolt we'll group it and life is good now what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn this into a hole now the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to use create a body for this hole to hollow out and so I'm going to go I've already measured it external and you'll sort of see why I'm choosing some of these numbers I do want to make it versatile so I'm going to go make it a diameter of 32 and then what I do is I want 10 millimeters of the bolt to show proud so I'm going to make this 70 millimeters tall and then so what I'm going to do is move this over the bolt structure and again we're going to use the handy align tool that Tinkercad gives us and if I click it also that's now aligned so I just want to take a quick view so we see we see the hex head down there which will be recessed we see the bolt sticking out about 10 millimeters proud and that should be pretty good so what we're going to do is we're going to group it and so it's thinking about it and so we've now knocked our whole out and then what we're going to do is we're going to now spin this on its side whoops get all the drag handle and then what we do is position it at its side I want to see if I got this yep and then so the other thing that's handy is this is showing 19 millimeters above the bed so I'm going to drop it right down onto the bed and then now what we're going to have to do though this this will hold our carriage bolt as it passes through so now what we're going to need is I'm going to create another assembly separate than join the two in a moment so the pipe that I'm using is actually 1/2 inch schedule 40 so the diameter is roughly about 20 1.8 so I'm going to make it 22 now that's pretty close to an inch now keep in mind the the ID and so you don't get confused on this the inner diameter as a half an inch but the outer diameter of the pipe is closer to an inch because it is a schedule 40 and it is a thicker pipe so what I'm going to do is increase the size of this upwards of say about Oh 30 5 extra zooms is thinking about this yes I'm going to go 35 35 diameter wise and then I'm going to go a high 432 so it matches my other structure and so the two whoops if I actually spin this around now these two should be aligned I'm just trying to see yep so that's pretty good I still have some more work that I want to do on this now I want to spin this down and now I'm going to I'm going to need to bring a box into the mix here or so again we don't have to get too fancy on this one we just need to match its height so 32 then but I am going to kick this out to be about yeah 32 just thinking here an inch is 25 and I want to give myself about a half an inch and so right about there I think um should be I think good good I'm going to leave it as a square if I wanted to get fancy I would curve this off with a circle in just thinking well let's get fancy and curve this off of the circle so you can see how I do that so if I take a look at this box I'm twenty wide by 32 tall so so I need to be have a thirty thirty-two inch diameter here and thirty-two here and then I need to have it lost twenty tall here's okay so I got a twenty tall so now I need to flip it on its side so we're going to flip it over and we're going to hit 90 degrees whoops that's good now what we're going to do is we're going to take this and we're going to put it inside of here and then I'm going to select this this the red box and then I'm going to go back up here to my line tool and whoops I killed the align tool because I'm negative six I want to hit zero so I'm right there and that's pretty close but I'm going to do a little bit better than that so what I'm going to do is I'm going to again select these two pieces I'm going to select the line and I want to make sure I get it in the center and I do is I'm going to do this and this and we'll group it and now you can see I have a rounded edge to my box now since I kicked this out a little bit further with this I'm going to move my box in a little bit I only need about a half inch or so to do what I need to do so with this what I'm going to do now is I'm going to pull another cylinder in and I haven't joined these two yet for a reason and I could probably do a bit it's just easier at least in my mind to do it this way so I'm going to so if a quarter is around six five I'm going to go about seven four again to give myself a little bit of room I'm going to print this in ABS and so there will be a little bit of shrinkage and then I want to create a whole lot of this and then we want to make this a little bit taller and now let's put this on its side at 90 and then I want to put it right through this guy and again I'm going to select this other piece and I'm going to go a line and then I'm going to Center it vertically inside the piece and so that's good and then I'm going to have to just eyeball it because I did do I didn't do a lot of real big setup measurements here eyeballing it's pretty good this is where the cinch bolt will go and then so that that piece is in there for the Cinch bolt now I need some cinch space to go in here but what I'm going to do first is I'm going to group I'm gonna whoops this is going to be hard I'm going to individually select these to group them and okay so I've now grouped them and now I'm going to just kind of touch these two see I want to make sure I'm not impeding that whole hmm so that looks good I'm not and so I'm going to join these together so this is now one piece and then now I need to make an opening for my cinch so I'm going to make this spool what's going to say five oops I did a bit of a mistake I need to ungroup this because I need to and this might be a little bit of a problem now that I've done it this way so I need 22.1 I need to make my opening to go around the schedule 40 pipe 22 point 1 and then I need whoops to pull this up if 49 was covering that's how to pull this up and I'm going to make this a hole and this is going to be a little bit difficult now to Center in this but I think I can get it close enough for what I want to do so I'm going to use a line and then just get it in the center there and then pull this up and just move it closer to the center that looks pretty good so now push this down through and then now what I'm going to do is go back to my cinch block and I'm going to make this so let's make a fifty just big enough to make it interesting and then let's make it forty to make it interesting again and then I'm just going to slide this piece in and I didn't make it quite long enough so I'm going to go back to the fifty and I'm going to make it eighty just for grins and giggles now that's that's way too long but it'll work because I want this inch this inch opening to cross over into the main body a little bit so I want this inch to be on both sides and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to select this in my cinch opening and hit a line already aligned there so that looks good I want to make sure I'm cutting through this I'm going to pull it down into the mix and now one of the tricks I'm going to I'm going to explain a little bit of a trick here so there's a limited number of groups that you can do and the more times that you do a group with fewer parts the more compute intense and I believe they're using the Amazon Cloud in the back of this so what's going to happen is you can potentially run out of group grouping so that I've done that on some of the more complicated pieces I've designed this piece I wouldn't run out of it however the more you can put together within a group the better off you are so this is why I've joined several different pieces in the group and actually if I wasn't walking through it like this I would have I would have done this in one group but you know showing you know how to do it it sometimes gets confusing when you have that many pieces that you do in the group so now here's what it looks like so we have we have a cinch that goes through we have some pretty good surface area on both sides to hold it we'll stick a quarter 20 bolt through here with a wing thumb screw to cinch down on this and this will pull if I wanted to get real fancy and maybe let's see not sure I can get real fancy I would create a star and actually put a star in here and you see them a little bit off there let's go ahead and ungroup that and just slide this forward a little bit em on once that's where part of my problem was there that that looks better so let's go ahead and regroup that as you can see just you can just ungroup it and manage it so so anyways that should again I have enough Iliad in here and here to hold tighten the camera is not very heavy I wouldn't use this for an SLR however it will work for basically I'll be using a galaxy Android phone hooked to one of my tripod mounts at this end so long story short I've now made you've now watched me make a coupler I've created rounded edges on it there should be enough to do this without supports there as you'll print this whole thing with no supports and so again we'll attach the camera mount on this side of it and this will go on to schedule 40 this will face forward in this direction this will face backwards in this amount again on the schedule 40 pipe so long story short this really completes the part we're going to export this to print it and so in the second video we'll take a look at actually printing this we'll do this on the DaVinci because I want to do it in ABS ABS is more springy than PLA and so we'll watch it print and then we'll assemble it on the rig and we'll show you how it all works and we'll also show you a picture of the rig too so it's kind of interesting something I came up with at local Menards over the weekend trying to get something to elevate the camera over the workbench so hey if you found this interesting if it gave you some pretty good tips give it a thumbs up also don't forget to subscribe to the channel a lot more of this stuff coming out also going to be setting up an open ska channel here pretty shortly kept the material putting it together I just have to get the time to set it up so thumbs up subscribe and see you in the next video Cheers like below and subscribe to the channel to keep up to date on all of our projects

Channel: DIY3DTECH.com

Views: 98,204

Keywords: CNC, 3D-Printing, ABS, PLA, PETG, Nylon, HIPS, GRBL, UGS, LinuxCNC, Marlin, Makerbot, QU-BD, TwoUp, OneUp, RepRap, TinyG, Mach3, GCode, DIY3DTech.com, Wanhao, DaVinci, XYZ, Printing, TinkerCAD, TinkerCAD worklows, Camera Bracket

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Length: 17min 34sec (1054 seconds)

Published: Sat May 07 2016