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Design for 3D-Printing

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837 points q3k | 1 comments | 04 May 25 17:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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finnjohnsen2 ◴[04 May 25 20:58 UTC] No.43889517[source]▶
6 months into 3D printing and I couldnt have asked for a better article to stumble upon. What a massive field this is and I love some of the take aways. Paricularly circles into hexagons, and making things adjustable.

I’m not making my own designs yet. It is too difficult. Modifiying a little here using Blender is where Im at

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sysrpl ◴[04 May 25 21:09 UTC] No.43889611[source]▶
It's super easy to design using OnShape. Hit me up with private message and I will show you everything you need to model 3D printable parts in under 5 minutes.
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1. stavros ◴[04 May 25 21:45 UTC] No.43889845[source]▶
Agreed, you need to know three things:

* Sketch a 2D design on a surface * Make the elements in that design depend on each other (this is parallel to that, this is equal to the other, X is at an angle to Y) as much as possible * Pull the 2D shape up into 3D space

Now you know how to design your own things! The rest is just learning the buttons, but there's usually one called "sketch", one called "constrain", and one called "extrude".