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Wall bracket

An L bracket screwed to a wall, with a stress study ready to run. Open the Stress panel and run it to see where the bracket bends most, then 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.

  • Change innerWidth, innerDepth or innerHeight and both parts follow, the lid still fits.
  • If your printer makes the fit too tight, raise clearance to 0.3 or 0.4 and print again.
  • wall, floor and lipHeight set how thick the walls are, how thick the bottom and the lid are, and 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, a revolve that climbs one pitch each turn, and the cap's thread leaves clearance of play on both flanks, 0.25 mm to start with.

  • Change innerDiameter, innerLength, wall or pitch and both parts follow, the cap still screws on. Tubes of 20 mm innerDiameter and up build cleanly at the default threadLength, a narrower tube or a longer thread may need checking, so run Interference after changing them.
  • Set screwedOn to 1 to put the cap on the tube and see the fit, and back to 0 to lay both out again. Run Interference with it on to check that the parts do not touch.
  • If your printer makes the thread too tight, raise clearance to 0.3 or 0.4 and print again.
  • threadLength sets how far the thread runs down the tube. It is kept between 2.5 and 9 pitches and within innerLength, a clearance under 0.05 is used as 0.05, and the groove is kept to leave 0.4 mm of wall.

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.