10 raz próbuję skończyć złożenie stojaka na kierownice, do PS4 w freecad 1.0, ale ciągle dzieją się dziwne rzeczy w "assembly". Czas na 1.02
Projekt wymagał kilku poprawek, ale weszły. Na oko oceniam, że będzie wszystko współgrało. Dołożenie podpórki może okaże się zbędne, a ostatnie części i tak tworzyłem na "odwal się".
To był aktywny weekend.
@FreeCAD I've mounted some euro peg boards in my workshop. Since I.wasn't able to reach the mounting holes at the corner (drainpipe) , I've designed a bracket in #FreeCAD and printed it.
The cover of issue 3 of SOURCE magazine. The cover has a diagonal image across the centre with a stack of purple PCB's which are the output of one of the tutorials in the magazine. There is some green text describing the magazine content.
I spent some time yesterday modelling a candle-holder for a birthday cake, then 3d printing 10 of them (for a 40th birthday). The cake isn't for a gardener, so those unfamiliar with the Two Ronnies may be puzzled...
Gonna try my luck with FreeCAD one more time, and try designing something I want to construct. I do like the idea of constraints for designing a thing (a tools drawer in my case), but it's totally backwards to what I'm used to do in Blender.
It'll either cause my brain to bleed, or produce something that doesn't explode by looking at it too hard lol Goal is to produce a blueprint out of it, which is one of the purposes of FreeCAD.
I can still do it in Blender with some precision if I fail.
This is new. Had an older version of FreeCAD and noticed it's now a 1.x so I grabed it. Messing around with the workbenches tried this, out of curiosity.
Pretty cool!
Still hurts my brain, but it's a start. Kinda figuring out a workflow here, but I'm totally not looking forward to design the screws I'm gonna use D: Maybe I can find a standarized set to rely on, like KiCAD footprint parts.
Using the Assembly workbench in FreeCAD. Added some more pieces. It does look like a rack but it isn't xD Though I like the rack look. Also, don't judge my wheels :p they are just placeholders.
If you are going to do assemblies in this program, do not group objects within the assembly, it seems to break stuff and joints. Probably a bug in how the tree works.
This is FreeCad 1.0.2 by the way. A bit of a mixed bag so far, but I think I'm getting the hang of it.
Future construction omen? I don't know, but I do know I will have to start this again from scratch, as I also re organize this awkward tree of objects.
Now it looks like a decent thing. And it's obvious what I'm trying to build here too :p
Plan is to take real measures out of this and build it in MDF. I do need to add some inside things first, but I kinda need the parts on my hand to model them for hole placements, so I guess it's time for some shopping lol
For now, FreeCAD is telling me that the total height of this thing is what I was expecting and should fit where I intend to put it, so that's good.
As I continue to discover #freecad for this little project, I think I have one tip to give about TechDraw.
I was quite frustrated at my pages being rebuilt and messed up. This happened because I was placing a view from an entire assembly and wanted only to show a few sub-parts of it, toggling visibility in the tree. That's wrong apparently.
Instead, select teh individual sub-parts to make the view.
This doesn't work with sub-assemblies though. But can duplicate and use visibility on them.
LOL Made some changes to make my drawer handles a little prittier and my entire file basically imploded beyond repair. Had to make everything almost from scratch again.
Assemblies in #freecad (the out-of-the-box workbench), is quite new AFAIK. And apparently it doesn't support too many levels of nested assemblies.
Can only have one sub assembly that is not made of other assemblies, otherwise it turns into fireworks.
Also need to double check 'Rigid' property is true on sub assemblies.
This has put a much needed smile on my face. Went way better than I expected. Glad to confirm I can still make something decent, and I can say I did something useful this entire year.
Missed an opportunity to engrave something with my laser engraver though. Next time probably. I think I will build another one since I have another space to put a second one. Really useful already, now my workspace is better organized.
Recently, I got my hands on a free Ender 5 Pro, whose Z axis was so bent it looked like a forklift drove over it. Because of that, I can finally do an #Endorphin build!
This thread will be an extended sojourn into this project, where I will aim to use random workshop junk whenever possible. I won't make this a hard rule, but I'll try and avoid buying new if I can.
First things first, gotta strip down the frame! So much useless junk there.
An Ender 5 frame, without the electronics box at the bottom, the display, the front top Y cross-beam, or the Bowden extruder. Some cabling from the extruder loom is hanging down into the middle of the frame at the bottom.
@3dprinting This is the plate for the Endorphin Stage 1. All but one of these parts ended up needing tweaks by me, mostly to add chamfers, remove captive nuts in favour of heatset inserts, and in the case of the idler mount, to fix some serious weakness issues.
I also managed to find bugs in both the AMF and STEP exporters in #FreeCAD in the process. I truly am a bug magnet.
There's a little more info and a direct to pdf link on my blog as well as links to Issue 1 which was a deep dive on Computational FLuid Dynamics with #FreeCAD.
A cover image for SOURCE Issue 2. The heading and some text are in magenta with a black background. Diagonally across the middle is a complex looking graph which is a screenshot from Logseq. The bottom left corner has a triangle of text which contains info about the magazine content.
So you know how the free software movement was started by getting frustrated with bad closed-source printer drivers?
Printers themselves are notoriously temperamental, with a hefty helping of planned obsolescence and crappy business models.
I (probably) can't fix "temperamental" but why shouldn't there be printers that you can build yourself? It blows my mind that we have this for 3D but not 2D.
Let's make this happen.
Messy electronics prototyping - daisy wheel from a Canon printer mounted to a stepper motor, solenoid triggered by a relay, motor driver on a breadboard
#FreeCAD peeps how would you do this? I have a FreeCAD 1.0.1 assembly which is a motor hub part with 3 holes for pins and 3 holes for magnets. I've assembled 1 pin and 1 magnet into the part. How do I do the other 2 as a polar pattern without having to just manually add the parts and joints?
Draft PolarArray doesn't seem to rotate them on the current working plane so it's just rotating them around the wrong axis!
Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux?
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