Design 3D Printable Hinges | Day 20 of Learn Fusion 360 in 30 Days - 2023 EDITION
Learn how to create 3D printable hinges on our parametric box from Day 19. These simple and easy-to-print hinges can be scaled and modified to adapt any 3D print design! We'll discuss designing with a clearance in mind, mirroring the hinges, and much more.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - 3D Printable Hinges in Autodesk Fusion
00:18 - Deleting the Joint and creating a new one
02:04 - Creating the hinge side profile
03:20 - Creating the hinge's inner hinge pin (nub)
04:15 - Creating the inner hinge
06:03 - Creating a clearance between the hinges
06:35 - Removing the hinge pin (nub) from the inner hinge
07:03 - Adding clearance to the inner hinge
07:47 - Mirroring the Hinge to the other side
08:45 - Exporting STL from Autodesk Fusion
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We have missed you, Kevin! Please keep the best beginner Fusion 360 tutorials coming. Looking forward to the next one! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
Thank you and sorry for the unexpected delay 🙂
@maciejjabonski833
3 ай бұрын
@@ProductDesignOnline Yes indeed, we missed you :) Hope you are doing great and thanks for another great video
@ProductDesignOnline
3 ай бұрын
@@maciejjabonski833 thanks for your continued support! 🙂
Another great tutorial Kevin! I'd love the next video to be about creating some sort of latch for the box, then the whole box would be completely functional right off the print bed!
A great tutorial, one of the most valuable ones I have seen. Thank you so much!
Really cannot thank you enough for this series. It's hard to appreciate how imperative a deliberate and consistent workflow is. This series is such a great opportunity to learn not only what the tools do but how to use them effectively. I tightened the hinge clearance to 0.3mm. There is no perceptible play in the hinge, and it operates perfectly. Although, like others have commented, it does not close all the way. I am guessing 0.0 tolerance between the box halves is just not realistic. Just like how you need some clearance between the moving parts for them to function. I raised the hinge point center 0.1mm which *almost* got it there. I bet 0.15mm would have done it, 0.2 for sure.
So happy for new lesson! I am shocked how much I have learned through this series!
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
Glad to hear that, Brian! Thanks for watching 😎
@bartoszligeza4803
6 ай бұрын
Exactly. I started from nothing and thanks to Kevin I can freely design my ideas. Thank you ♥
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
@@bartoszligeza4803 thanks for your support 🙏🏼
This channel is way underrated. Very clear and exact instructions and great workflow. Thank you!
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate you 😊
I'm trying to self teach myself all of this currently and this has helped a lot with some awesome tricks of Fusion. Thank you very much, now I have to learn how to add teeth on the inside of the inner cavity so the hinge has a snap to place connection to it if that makes sense!
cheers kev boy xoxo
This series has been so helpful. This was my favorite lesson yet. Thanks so much.
@ProductDesignOnline
14 күн бұрын
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching :)
Kevin continues to deliver gold 🎉
VERY VERY HELPFUL. Thanks a lottt
You are very good at taking these concepts and making them super easy to understand, thank you for that!
Thanks, very informative.
You provide the best beginner tutorials! Your voice is clear and instructions are clear. Thanks You!!!!
Great tutorial as always
Perfect timing! I've been playing with different ways to 3D print a sort tray for our business. This simplifies everything! Thank you so much for your videos.
Love this series
I've been following this series over the past couple of weeks and am all up to date now! It has been great learning Fusion 360 for my little home projects. Thank you so much for the indepth videos and the clear explanation. Looking forward to the rest of the series! Maybe a video about all the construct planes like you did with the sketch constraints would also be very useful.
so clean
Love this channel, I learned a lot.
This series is a fantastic resource and one i am highly enjoying while learning a great new skill
This explains how to create hinges perfectly
Alleluia you are back
Love your video. Iam watching part 2 of your videos which is making soda bottle. I looked into the 30days playlist and saw it only has 21videos. I worried you'd give up on finishing this course but glad you are still working on it. thank you so muchh
Nice tutorial! I'm using FreeCAD but will try to apply these concepts. Just seeing how you did this type of hinge is informative. Easier than expected. Not certain right now how to create the offset for the inverted cone. I can do everything else. I'll have to look over the other tutorials.
These are amazing thank you so much! Just opening F360 is overwhelming but this series is a map to the maze!
@ProductDesignOnline
5 ай бұрын
Thanks, James! Happy learning and Happy New Year! :)
These are so great! I went from not knowing a thing about Fusion 360 to creating fully usable car parts I'm having CNC'd in just a couple weeks. I love your quick, clear, and concise approach to teaching.
@ProductDesignOnline
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching, Jim! Happy New Year
oh wow, i'm already up to date.. hahah i was wondering where i could watch the Day 21... thx for the videos, u are inspiring me to properly use fusion (u know, components and all that)
I had to project the box side before 5:00 to make my sketch fully defined
LETSS GO
All of your videos are outstanding. Most of what know about Fusion 360 (not a lot!) has been derived from your videos. I use it for design of 3D printed items so had to try this as soon as I saw it. My box hinges worked first time with your suggested clearances. However, the box does not quite close fully as there is interference at the hinge side. I'll look at ways of adding in a small clearance then also adding a snap clip at the front to hold it closed. My first use for one of these boxes is to hold SMA connectors and standards for a vector network analyser. Perfect - a learning project with a purpose. First class material, thanks Kevin.
@robinharris4706
5 ай бұрын
Try this modification - move the centre of the hinge 0.3mm above the top of the box base. This should also move the centre of the lid hinge by the same amount (worth checking depending on how the sketch was constrained). The total gap of 0.6mm allows the box to close snugly without a small gap opposite the hinges.
@ProductDesignOnline
5 ай бұрын
@@robinharris4706 Great tips and thanks for your kind words!
Super helpful! Love the 3d printing content. Is there a particular reason you used the offset face command rather than push/pull to create the tolerances?
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
Press/Pull will not be recorded in the timeline, which is why I always recommend using the Offset faces command (so you can update the tolerances later, if needed). Otherwise, there is no physical difference in the result.
I'd love to see you do a tutorial for an unusual screw like shape, e.g. Generate an image of a screw. Revolving around this core are 3 vanes forming a screw shape. The vanes must be a sinusodal wave shape with a high and low of 5mm and 15mm.
Thanks for these! Thanks for your response on my comment on the other video. I was able to work past that issue. However, I'm stuck here. I am fine making the first hinge piece. However when I go to make the sketch for the inner hinge piece (at 4:33 in this video), I don't get the option to create a new sketch as there is already a sketch on that plane. Instead, I just get the option to edit my existing one which I obviously do not want to do. I have confirmed that I have the box top active (the previous sketch was on the box bottom). I can think of a few ways to work around it, but I'm wondering what I'm missing. Thanks in advance for any help!
God i love these. So far using what you have taught us, i have made a cool servo arm holder so i can remotely control an ancient touch screen system, a grow light holder/shade, A classic phone stand from a picture of a leaf(turned out way to big, my sense of scale is poor). I still have so much to learn but truly appreciate what you are sharing.
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
Glad to hear that and thanks for watching. Best of luck with all your projects :)
This has been a great series, absolutely. Thank you Kevin! The model printed great. I wanted to mess with it a bit and add an offset between the top and bottom so that the lid sits flat. I tried to rotate the joint and it's locked. I tried to convert the joint to a rotating joint, but the joint point is on the edge of the box and not the the centerpoint of the hinges. Anyone have a tip or recommend a video that covers joints in more detail?
@ProductDesignOnline
4 ай бұрын
In this case, you would need to remove the original joint that we applied to place the box (and fix the reference issues to the sketch). You could then apply the revolute joint. Here's a video that covers As-Built Joints (when parts are built in place): kzread.info/dash/bejne/gaeYrpKPn8StnJM.htmlsi=HoEjTm0aoglI9i5H I cover Joints extensively in the PDO Academy courses, but don't have much free content on it at the moment.
thanks for the useful advice, I'm learning a lot thanks to you, I like designing rc planes in Depron and I would like to understand how to bring 3D bodies (surface parts of the fuselage) into 2D sheets to be laser cut respecting the curvatures during assembly, you can do a lesson ? Thank you
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the kind words and video suggestion!
Good stuff. Is there a brief description of the differences in the mirror command while in sketch mode as apposed to not being in sketch mode?
@ProductDesignOnline
5 ай бұрын
They essentially act/work the same. The majority of the time you'll want to mirror components or bodies as it performs better and helps keep your sketches 'as simple as possible' (which is recommended for parametric design). Some use cases, such as mirroring some sketch geometry to then deleting some on the other side, etc are where the sketch mirror command becomes helpful. Definitely use the sketch one with caution tho :)
This has been a very helpful video series-thank you! One challenge I've had with this model, is trying to go a step further and make a revoute joint work in software. Since we positioned the boxes using an fixed joint w/ offset, it seems to be really challenging (to me at least) to switch it to a revolute joint and get the boxes lined up. I can choose new faces such as the center of the hinges, but it oftentimes breaks the hinge geometry-I suppose because some referenced deisgn along the way. If I just change our fixed joint to a revolute joint, the boxes don't line up when rotated. If anyone has figured out how to make that adjustment, I'd be interested to hear. Thanks!
@meyerbenr
2 ай бұрын
I am learning my way through this series now, and just sorted this out myself. You commented this 3 months ago so you've probably got this by now but if not, and for anyone else like me looking through the comments for this: It seems the axis points for both parts of a revolute joint must be on the same axis and in the same plane. Having them on the same axis but different planes brings those planes together. I resolved this by making the second box half active and intersecting the radius of the sketch of the first hinge part. That placed an axis point for the box top on the outside face of the box bottom hinge. After that I was able to select the same point for each resolute axis. Of course he will probably cover this in one of the next few lessons but sometimes it's just fun to learn by exploration! :)
I couldn't understand how I got my bodies in reverse order, but everything's fine so far. :)) This is just one more piece of precious experience; when I draw my project line while looking from the flat back, I placed my center diameter circle to the outer plane of the sketch. :)) Whenever I got to the 3d view, I've found the right edge.
i had to go back and edit the parametric timeline at 3:10 to New body instead of join (my mistake) to get 6:36 combine to work
Perfect tutorial! I just want to point out something I noticed. When adding a constraint to an element outside the sketch, fusion automatically projects this element to the sketch. But this projection is not linked. So when you update your component, it doesn't update the sketch.
What to do if you don’t want the top and bottom bodies to be the same height?
Parametric box with hinges has been created!
These are definitely the best tuts on youtube
@ProductDesignOnline
4 ай бұрын
Appreciate you 👋
Silicone material for 3D Printing, did you ever consider this?
How do I close and open the box in Fusion360?
@ProductDesignOnline
Ай бұрын
You will have to apply a revolute joint to the hinge and then 'drive' or animate the joint.
Id love to use CAD, but i wish there's a way i can access a program like this
@ProductDesignOnline
6 ай бұрын
You can get Fusion 360 for free via their "Personal Use License". Google that and use the official Autodesk link to sign up/download.
@lavacat720
6 ай бұрын
@@ProductDesignOnline Thanks!
Can't find day 21 and later videos???
@ProductDesignOnline
5 ай бұрын
They are not available yet ;)
Just a pedantic comment: around 8:18, you are mirroring the hinge pieces but they are going into the top-level component instead of their respective subcomponents? Surely that's not the way? :)
@ProductDesignOnline
3 ай бұрын
The top level component can be active when mirroring, as the items will fall within the component selected for the mirror. You'll notice that after completing the mirror, no bodies folder is created at the top level. 😄
@maciejjabonski833
3 ай бұрын
@@ProductDesignOnline Thanks for the reply Kevin, that's a good thing thing to know going forward :)
Is this print in place?
@darmichar73
6 ай бұрын
Yes, it would be. That's why he included the tolerances in the hinges.
Do you maybe know how i could apply these to a chess board??
@ProductDesignOnline
4 ай бұрын
I'm not following your question. What are you trying to do?
🤦🏻♂ can someone tell me where to start with respect to lessons for someone with zero knowledge about Fusion 360? I see a lot of lessons but don't see a starting point
@ProductDesignOnline
5 ай бұрын
You can find all the videos in order in the official playlist: kzread.info/head/PLrZ2zKOtC_-C4rWfapgngoe9o2-ng8ZBr&si=yE2utlqnILrLYVms
@dosdont
5 ай бұрын
@@ProductDesignOnline Thank you