Dude! Love your tutorials. You are thorough, have excellent designs, and do a great job of explaining things on the fly. Keep up the good work and the more tutorials the better!
Greatest video I've found in ages, you are a life saver. I'm a product design student and putting together my packaging for my final year project and this is exactly what i needed!!!! instant sub.
Hey man! Awesome tutorial I have a question though. In going to be doing a lot of work with aluminum composite panel. Those are usually cut with V groove bits with a kerf at the tip. How do I model a v groove bend instead of a round flange bend?
Oh, wow, this is awesome. I like the quick turnaround of foldable project enclosures on (polyester) laser printer transparency film. An xacto knife and a metal ruler make quick work of it. I've tried transferring patterns to thicker plastic sheets, but the variables in bending were a real pain. This technique should definitely help. I tried cardboard a couple times but it really isn't very durable. How does chip-board hold up over time?
Do you get accurate dimensions? I allways have problems with the generated flat patterns dimensios! The boxes done come out in the dimensions i designed them.
as for now, I can only somewhat work in AutoCAD, and Ive designed custom ITX PC case, where most of it will be one big bent aluminum sheet ... can I import my 2D/3D drawing into any other CAD software that can animate the bending process ? or can I at least import it into Fusion 360 so that I dont have to draw and bend it from scrach ? thanks
Please answer this I can't find a single decent source for info relating to the cricut! Why is it when I import the svg that I saved from illustrator to the cricut design space, it automatically scales the part down?! it's driving me completely nuts and the entire internet is saturated with arts and crafts people who apparently dont care to have accurate and precisely size templates to cut out.
I wonder how you would create an object like a candelabra with 'arms' coming off post of candle stick at a 45-degree angle, and then save model (unfolded) as a dfx to convert to svg for Cricut cutter? I can't find any tutorials for adding angled components. ( In essence, I'm suggesting another tutorial.)
Thank you very much for the Tutorial! I wanted to ask you if it was possible to make the holes for the flaps smaller than the actual flaps, because otherwise they simply fall out and don't give enough solidity. I know that the 3D-Construction does not allow that because the material collides.
I've watched this video a couple times and it's great. I'm having trouble reverse engineering a sheet metal chassis from a 1934 EKCO AD65 British radio. The front view of the part has both the left and right sides tapering towards the top, but only the top 5-inches from an overall 6-inch height. It has flanges toward the back of the part but those flanges taper from an inch wide at the bottom to about a quarter inch at the top. To top that off the two side flanges have horizontal flanges on the bottom outside both left and right. Could you do a video that shows how to measure such a part, how to draw it and how to flange it? I think a lot of people would be interested in something like that. Do you measure from the outside of the side flanges? Inside? Then change the flange bend radius and thickness to fit? Many things going on here. Thanks, you are a pretty brilliant guy.
How to make a 180 degree bend (like U) with a 0.5 clearance in between in sheet metal using flange ? If you want to see the diagram I could e-mail you.
