HOW DO YOU MOVE A PART IN SIMPLIFY 3D SERIES
I paid around 35$ per spool for the Raptor Series PLA. If it’s tuned properly, they should drop right into place with minimal to no pressure. If during assembly you can’t get the washer or nut inserted, it’s likely your printer is over-extruding.So, I’d do 7 at a time on my c-bot’s 12×12″ bed: One over night and one while I was work (monitored via OctoPrint), allowing me to print 14 (one spools worth) a day. Which means I could print 14 per 1kg spool. They came to 68g for both pieces, and took about 70 min. They’re designed to be printed flat, to provide maximum strength based on those layer lines. Be sure to print them flat, not up on one end.No raft, nor brim, no supports, did use a offset skirt.Based on my nozzle diameter, 4 shells completely filled all the structures.4mm nozzle you’ll need to compensate for the layer height and number of roof\floor\shells.
These are the settings I used to print them in Simplify 3D, based on the Raptor PLA using a. Based on that I bought 8 spools (enough I’d need to print the 100ish brackets, supports, and shims): I print mainly in PLA: I had used a couple different types during prototyping, and around that time I learned about MakerGeeks Raptor Series PLA : It’s supposed to be stronger than ‘normal pla’, and while I have no numbers to back up my findings, it does seem much stronger than ‘normal’ pla. But that very quickly went off the rails as design needs were encountered.Īnd to help with design, when two corner clamps are holding plywood opposite one another, the gap is just about 2″: When I first started making them they had nice round numbers. The below images show the overall dimensions of the parts in both inch and cm. Because of this I went through one more iteration, requiring me to enlarge the brackets significantly to handle the increased width of the plywood: Corner Clamp Final DesignĪt this point, I realized I had purchased 1/2″ plywood for my above tests: For my final shelving unit I wanted to use 3/4″ ply, to provide more strength. With only one bracket per side (less that in the above shots), four of them could easily hold my bouncing 180lb frame. From there I printed a number of them, assembled a small plywood box out of them, and started bouncing on top if it: Stress testing, & Corner Clamp prototype 2īased on where the cracks had formed in my prototype I redesigned it to use less material, but put what was there all in the right places. However, it was still really strong, so I went about a redesign. Prototype was ‘strong like bull’ to humans, and my hope was the dense infill would provide the internal strength it needed, but I quickly broke it when torquing the held plywood. The idea is you put a nut in the outer L-shaped piece, and a screw through the end of the inner piece to hold it in place, and both sides press against the plywood. This was my initial prototype modeled in Autodesk Maya: I’d seen some interesting brackets at Maker Faire one year that did something similar, so I got to prototyping a system: An outer L-shaped piece that could have an inner piece cinched against it, taking up any slack. Since plywood can have varying width, I needed a solution that allowed for that slop.
I wanted an adjustable bracket to hold plywood together at 90 deg angles. By using them in different configurations, you can create just about any rectangular-shaped structure. The Corner Clamps are what hold two pieces of plywood together at 90 deg angles. The 3d Printable PartsĪll the 3d printable parts I printed on my C-bot. The final shelving unit installed, using the MPS.
HOW DO YOU MOVE A PART IN SIMPLIFY 3D DOWNLOAD
You can download all the above-mentioned MPS 3d printable files on Thingiverse HERE. This is all common sense, but because lawyers: I am not responsible in any way for any type of accident, damage, injury, death, or cost incurred from using this system: By downloading from any source and / or making these files on any printer / fabrication system, you wave me from from any liability now or in the future. This blog post describes the process I went through to create the MPS, how you can use them, and the shelving unit I designed to prototype it all with. As of this authoring the system includes: While creating it, more 3d printed items were needed, so I decided to coin the whole operation the “ Modular Panel System“, or MPS. At first I thought I’d use my X-Carve CNC for this, but after much research and though, I instead decided to create a new 3d-printed modular corner bracket system to hold 3/4″ plywood sheets together. Rather than go looking for a pre-built solution, I figured this would be a great learning experience: Make an entire shelving unit from scratch, including all the parts that join it together. I’ve had the idea for sometime to create a new shelving unit in our garage: When we moved it we tossed some spare Ikea shelves against the wall.