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Home shows the examples under Start here on a first run, and under Examples once you have documents of your own. A card opens its example as a new, untitled document with the card's name.

Nothing is written to disk. Change anything you like, and Save asks where to keep your copy. Click the card again for a fresh one.

Wall bracket

An L bracket screwed to a wall, with a stress study ready to run.

  1. Open the Stress panel and click Run to see where the bracket bends most.
  2. Change thickness in the parameters and run it again.

See Stress.

Box with a lid

A box and a lid laid flat side by side, ready to print. The lid has a lip that fits inside the box with clearance all round, 0.2 mm to start with.

  1. Change innerWidth, innerDepth or innerHeight and both parts follow, the lid still fits.
  2. If the fit prints too tight, raise clearance to 0.3 or 0.4.
  3. wall sets the walls, floor the bottom and the lid, lipHeight how deep the lip goes.

See Parameters.

Capsule holder

A tube and a screw-on cap laid side by side, ready to print. Both threads are modelled, and the cap's thread leaves clearance of play on both flanks, 0.25 mm to start with.

  1. Change innerDiameter, innerLength, wall or pitch and both parts follow, the cap still screws on.
  2. Set screwedOn to 1 to put the cap on the tube, and back to 0 to lay both out again.
  3. If the thread prints too tight, raise clearance to 0.3 or 0.4.
  4. threadLength sets how far the thread runs down the tube. It stays between 2.5 and 9 pitches, and within innerLength.

With a tube under 20 mm innerDiameter or a longer thread, set screwedOn to 1 and run Interference to check that the parts do not touch.

See Parameters.

Plate

A plate with four holes, sized by parameters. Change width, depth or holeInset and the holes stay in their corners.

Pinned lever

A lever on a pin with a stress study ready to run, for a part that turns instead of bending. Run it in the Stress panel to see the load around the pin.