Figured out some CAD stuff yesterday that has been bugging me for two weeks. I should have a printable model tomorrow or the day after.
Trying to make stuff nicer than a simple rectangular box can be hard to do right. I had never tried mentally inverting my spaces in CAD and modeling all complex voids between shells as objects too, but that allows me to navigate more complexity now. Basically I discovered I can do a bunch of operations, then merge objects up tree at an earlier point in history to apply all of the later operations to both objects in useful ways.
It was surprisingly challenging to think about a hollow rectangular hourglass inside an oval at the waist of the hourglass, and then how wires, connectors, and a circuit board cross between the asymmetric voids in the center. It is not just hollow spaces to pocket out. I need print orientation based mounts and clips that grow from all faces in different directions because it is all one monolithic print and I never use printed supports.
It is a silly thing to describe, and to do, but it is my silly thing.
Figured out some CAD stuff yesterday that has been bugging me for two weeks. I should have a printable model tomorrow or the day after.
Trying to make stuff nicer than a simple rectangular box can be hard to do right. I had never tried mentally inverting my spaces in CAD and modeling all complex voids between shells as objects too, but that allows me to navigate more complexity now. Basically I discovered I can do a bunch of operations, then merge objects up tree at an earlier point in history to apply all of the later operations to both objects in useful ways.
It was surprisingly challenging to think about a hollow rectangular hourglass inside an oval at the waist of the hourglass, and then how wires, connectors, and a circuit board cross between the asymmetric voids in the center. It is not just hollow spaces to pocket out. I need print orientation based mounts and clips that grow from all faces in different directions because it is all one monolithic print and I never use printed supports.
It is a silly thing to describe, and to do, but it is my silly thing.