TinkerCad Workflows - Rapid Design Tricks & Supports

welcome to the diy3dtech.com channel welcome to this edition of diy3dtech.com In this episode we're going to uh do another installment of the tinkercad workflows and in this video what we're going to do is take a look at creating a stanson for one of our camera slider projects so with this a couple different pieces that I want to share and one of the main ones is how to work in a rapid prototype design how to get from idea to actual product as quickly as possible as well as how to work with supports and in this case I'm speaking of structural supports not those supports put in in slicers or slicer type environment so basically what we'll do is uh for this we need to create a vertical stanion so we want to create a ruler and we're going to start out with a column and then so basic basically this column we're going to need to be 23.8 mm tall and then basically we are going to want this to be 18 mm around now um little bit of tip here so this is this is my basic size that I I want to get so this is as tall as I want the object to be now a few structural things obviously at 18 mm uh there's going to be a lot of lateral torque on this uh cylinder uh because we'll place a camera up here and it's going to want to pull it so what we're going to want to do is add a bit of a base to it now we don't need a lot of a base um so A good rule of thumb what I do is I like to to double the um the base so basically we have 18 millim here so we're going to double that uh so what's that going to be about 36 so so we're going to say that this is now going to be 36 mm by 36 and the pieces we don't really need it that tall because again what we want to do is use this to distribute uh the lateral Force so it doesn't have to be very tall at all so we're going to make this about 3 mm uh tall and then what we're going to do is just go through and we're going to use the adjust we're going to use a line and then we're just going to square this up and everything's aligned and so so now we have this so we have when there's lateral torque on this stanson uh it'll be now distributed over twice the surface area of the stanson itself so that's a good thing however we do have a weakness right here at this joint so there's a couple different ways we could deal with that weakness we could do a fillet so we could use sort of a a a Taurus shell to create a fillet uh in here sort of like uh this maybe if we um let's do this do a quick adjust and I'll show you what I'm getting at I have do a little bit adjustment here so so basically this this is now what we referred to as a fillet so we've add ex we've added extra material here to build this out and this is probably you know for what we're doing would be okay uh because what it's going to H do is again uh remove some of the lateral forces of the stress between these two structures because again we we're transmitting um you know the the weight downward from this structure in this way you know or or one of the lateral ways which is going to put pressure on this from from an engineering standpoint now we can get all math on it but I mean I think you basically get the idea there's there's also a couple other ways that I'd like to to deal with these and these are uh this this is by using uh wedges to create um uh again structural support so what we're going to do is we're going to create this we're going to narrow this guy up and we're going to put him down to uh we're going just keep him at five and then what we're going to do is we're going to go up here and then we're going to do duplicate him and then what we're going to do is drag this guy around and we're going to take him 180° around so right there we go and then what we're going to do is we're going to put this guy right here and then um again we're going to use my favorite tool the Align so we're going to align both of these guys and and then basically move them forward until they're together and uh one of the things I want to do is I want to increase my uh edit grid so now what we're going to do is we're going to group group these two together so now they're one unit and then what we're going to do is well I don't think they quite joined very well so I'm going to separate them again and um push them together a little bit further uh let me go with a little bit more on the grid to make sure I got right amount of overlap I think that should do it and then so we're going to add this we're going to group this together that's still not grouping together that great but that's okay um it'll work for what we want to do because we're going to duplicate this guy again then we're going to take this duplicated version and then we're going to flip him by 90° and then we're going to put him back here and then what I'm going to do is again go back I think you've guessed it and do an align and align these guys and then boom we have that and then let's go through and group these and and um so 30 39.8 so we're at 32 36 on that so what I want to change these guys to is 32 and so we keep proportion the same and then what we're going to do is we're going to move this into this structure and then again we're going to align and then you see we now have not only a fillet type structure but we also have uh supports so now I want a little bit more support so I'm going to kick this out a little bit I'm going to make this 36 and then I'm going [Music] to uh find the other one was 32 and then let's make this 36 also and let's see if we should be able to hold that all inside so let's go through and do our line again H come on uh I missed clicking it so we got to do it again so we've aligned that one and we've aligned that one there that looks better um so there's sticking out a little bit so I think I'm going to have to go to [Music] to if I can keep it I have to move it a little bit sometimes when you get this problem you got to move it a little bit so I'm going to go to 35.5 and then get this guy over here and make him 35.5 and again we're going going to adjust so we align everything I keep meaning to make a a macro to do this um still still have a little bit showing so I think I'm going to have to go just right down to 35 and call it done um but one of the other things I do want to do is pull this up so it's a little bit short hopefully you can see that so I have a little bit bigger stanions uh okay so let's go back and let's do an align again and so it looks like we only have to go that way so now looks like we're pretty good so we've now have two forms of support we have these stanions plus we have fill up material in here so now the only thing we have to do is pop a hole in it for our qu2 uh bolt so basically let's see 242 so about 6 and a half let's go give it a little bit let's go 7.5 by 7.5 and boom KN the ho it's now another tip here is to you notice I haven't joined all these yet uh I I kind of like when I'm doing stuff like this is to save you know save my joints because Tinker CAD does limit them and there also is an overhead to because basically what Tinker CAD does is records all your action so I'm trying to minimize them and it it it actually makes the model simpler to render or faster to render so now we have this complete and then we group it and there we go we now have our stanion so we have quar 20in bolt so this will raise us up off the platform and then we can mount a camera on top of here uh to the U the tripod mount and then basically what happens it'll distribute the weight on the sled over twice the area and then we have both fillet and um angled supports uh to handle the weight so again it'll be steadier and transfer a lot of the uh motion and force into this larger disc area down to the plate or slider plate for the camera so uh anyways uh just kind of wanted to do a video showing a couple different things and and as you see how quick you know we went from a concept to a finished product and the next video uh we'll actually print this out and see how it works and how it came out um eventually we're going to build a camera kind of like gimbal that will go on top of here or our own 3D printed head but for right now this will work for um what we need to and to demonstrate it so uh so hopefully this this helped kind of explain how to work with it because again you saw how we did the um the angled stanions how we use the the uh the Taurus shell to produce the fillet very rapidly and then we in in the final um task is we just knocked the hole down the center and brought it all together so again just a matter of minutes and and again a lot of this is just me talking and kind of showing um you know you can create a part like this and just simply you know a matter of minutes and Tinker cat it's a very actually powerful program to do something like this and again um you know you saw how we started out with basically one wedge and then ended up with four and this whole triangular shape concoction which we just moved in and then uh joined with everything so uh this will be a very solid piece between all these various mounts so um again kind of wanted to share the idea of of the structural supports the transfer of the transfer of basically Torque from this smaller um vertical object to this larger plate and some of the quick Concepts and rules of themi use for design so anyways hopefully this helped if it did give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel there'll be more videos like this coming cheers

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Keywords: CNC, Laser, Cutting, Engraving, 3D, Printing, ABS, PLA, GRBL, Marlin, Makerbot, QU-BD, TwoUp, OneUp, RepRap, TinyG, Mach3, GCode, DIY3DTech.com, Tinkercad, Rapid 3D design, 3d Printing

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Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 18 2016