http://makerblock.com/2010/03/blender-help/ And I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:51:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://makerblock.com/2010/03/blender-help/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Erik de Bruijn Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:59:19 +0000 http://makerblock.com/?p=1208#comment-332 It seems you're using sketchup... Since it's not a solid modeler, it's ambiguous what's the inside and what's the outside of the object. All of the purple faces are inverted. You shouldn't see those or they shouldn't be purple. You normally should only see white/grey-ish faces. You can invert them by right-clicking on them and choosing invert face. Also have a look at the cadspan plugin, it has several aids to create solid models, including a shrinkwrapping service that will make sure your model is 100% printable. For such an application (tight tolerances, parts that should mate) OpenSCAD seems very appropriate. Designing something like this would take a few minutes. Union of a spere, two cylinders. Removing that (scaled up a few percents) from the mating part. which is made in the same way. I've uploaded a derivative to thingiverse to show what it would look like when made with OpenSCAD. It seems you’re using sketchup… Since it’s not a solid modeler, it’s ambiguous what’s the inside and what’s the outside of the object.
All of the purple faces are inverted. You shouldn’t see those or they shouldn’t be purple. You normally should only see white/grey-ish faces. You can invert them by right-clicking on them and choosing invert face. Also have a look at the cadspan plugin, it has several aids to create solid models, including a shrinkwrapping service that will make sure your model is 100% printable.
For such an application (tight tolerances, parts that should mate) OpenSCAD seems very appropriate. Designing something like this would take a few minutes. Union of a spere, two cylinders. Removing that (scaled up a few percents) from the mating part. which is made in the same way.
I’ve uploaded a derivative to thingiverse to show what it would look like when made with OpenSCAD.

]]> http://makerblock.com/2010/03/blender-help/comment-page-1/#comment-331 MakerBlock Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:19:06 +0000 http://makerblock.com/?p=1208#comment-331 :) Thank you. Once I can get it to work I think people can incorporate it as a component of larger useful items. I'm thinking of one that could work as a bearing of sorts. :) Thank you. Once I can get it to work I think people can incorporate it as a component of larger useful items. I’m thinking of one that could work as a bearing of sorts.

]]> http://makerblock.com/2010/03/blender-help/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Rodbotic Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:17:07 +0000 http://makerblock.com/?p=1208#comment-330 cool idea. cool idea.

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