First Attempt with 3d printing to fabricate useful tools

[jhiggi83]

Im trying to learn tinkercad so I can mockup custom solutions for stuff in my shop since alot of what I find online doesn't quite fit my need. Honestly figuring at the gas software on my own was the hardest part and most of that was me psyching myself out. These are my first 2 designs, a simple dust collection hood to attach to my 4" dust hose, and a chisel holder that holds my 4 most used chisels.They wont win any competitions and I still need to test the hood that was based loosely on Rockler dust rite hood. Still need to work out mounting but im leaning towards a camera boom and using heat set threded inserts.

 

[d_bondi]

Nice work! I love designing and printing things for the shop!

I too used TinkerCAD for a while and then wanted something more powerful so I am teaching myself Fusion (used to be Fusion 360, but they dropped the 360). There is a "free" for personal use version that has all the capabilities and is only limited by the number of "active" models you can have. That is set to 10, but it isn't an issue because you can toggle them from Editable to Read-Only quite easily.

 

[jhiggi83]

Nice work! I love designing and printing things for the shop!

I too used TinkerCAD for a while and then wanted something more powerful so I am teaching myself Fusion (used to be Fusion 360, but they dropped the 360). There is a "free" for personal use version that has all the capabilities and is only limited by the number of "active" models you can have. That is set to 10, but it isn't an issue because you can toggle them from Editable to Read-Only quite easily.

Thanks, I didn't know there was a free version of fusion, I'll have to check it out. My biggest struggle with tinkercad was figuring out how you make voids and shape your piece but I found a tutorial on it. Still not very intuitive but it works

 

[KenB259]

Very nice.

 

[d_bondi]

Thanks, I didn't know there was a free version of fusion, I'll have to check it out. My biggest struggle with tinkercad was figuring out how you make voids and shape your piece but I found a tutorial on it. Still not very intuitive but it works

Fusion is so much more powerful, if you are going to put the effort into learning something, maybe it is worth it for you. I wish I had started my journey sooner.