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Hi Caleb! Great tutorial! As a suggestion, for the future maybe, I would do it with OpenSCAD too, it’s an easy and great option specially for code-inclined makers like me! Cheers from Carlo (MF Trieste, Italy).
Sometimes its easy to just think there's only one software solution and that tends to be the brand names that get the traction but this was very enlightening will have to check out freeCad now, Posh Work great video both explainations were great examples 👌
We still don't know how to add the Makey drawing to the coin ;-) ! That said, great comparison; Both are able to do the same kind of jobs, with Fusion360 being easier to at times, but when it is time to pay the license fee, FreeCAD wins without a doubt.
There's definitely some r/restofthefuckingowl going on here, but it looks to me like that happens to be because the debossed shape is conveniently closed. I haven't found a _good_ method of dealing with ad-hoc svg/image additions to deboss/press into surfaces yet as much as I've looked.
Nice tutorial, but what I don't understand is why you always refer to the xy plane instead of basing it on the top of your coin? I find it much more intuitive to work from the top down rather than in the opposite direction up from the xy plane. And by the way, for the polar pattern tool it doesn't matter where you put the first notch, especially not if the number of notches is divisible by 4, like 24.
New to 3D and Fusion, would not call this a tutorial for Fusion, more of watch me do this. Even pausing and stepping through hard to follow. I guess I need to watch a bunch of Fusion HOWTO videos first.
In FreeCad just Ctrl-click both bodies, go to File --> Export and export as STL. The STL file then includes both bodies and can be opened with any slicer. Can't say how to do it In Fusion360 but it should be similar. I would suggest to use a bit more than 0.2 mm offset between the inner and outer part. With 0.2 there is quite a big chance that the parts melt together, depending on slicer settings and filament used. I suggest 0.4 mm (which is the standard line width with a 0.4 nozzle) to be on the safe side. My experience is that print in place models are liekly to fail with offsets less than line width. The model shown at 1:15 has so much play between the parts that an offset greater than 0.2 has certainly been used
In FreeCAD, you just have to select both bodies (clic, ctrl-clic) and export to STL (File > Export to > STL Mesh) and you're done! It takes less than 4 clicks to do so.
@jurgenr3240 When exporting one piece gets rotated 90°. I assume it's because the two parts were created on different planes. Is there a way to fix that for export? Besides redesigning both parts on the same plane using revolve function for both.
