Had an idea for a round hockey puck for the roland style cutter (After doing those t-shirts last weekend) and very much TRYING to design it. Oh Boy, i have much more respect for those who do things, like design cncs, or parts for cnc, or etc.
This one has really challenged me, but I am getting there. How do you design for tolerances?
Gratuitous shot of my freecad design ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forum.v1e.com/images/emoji/google/slight_smile.png?v=12)
![roland-cutter](https://us2.dh-cdn.net/uploads/db5587/original/3X/6/1/618fbe2d84c4a22d3698115771bead9f5b928653.png)
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Congrats! Looks pretty good actually.
Is that extruded or revolved?
If you are printing it a good place to start is making holes about 0.2mm bigger, and outer surfaces 0.2mm smaller. From there you can dial in if you need more on your printer.
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Lol, not sure extruded\revolved. It is Freecad. Just a series of pads! I am far from a novice even!
At one point i got quite upset, i walked away and came back and suddenly it started to make sense!
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That’s pretty good progress, frankly. Grokking CAD workflow can be a really difficult challenge.
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Extruded then. ![:smile: :smile:](https://forum.v1e.com/images/emoji/google/smile.png?v=12)
CAD is hard, freecad is particularly hard. Did you try the Ondsel version, it looks better from a quick glance.
Once you start understanding something even a little bit you start to get better really fast. I think you got over the hump, now you just need to make a couple more things and you will really lock it in. If you are not sure what to make a pair of dice, with all the dots populated…that is a great learning project.
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I did mess with ondsel. It is exciting, but i have been messing with freecad, for a while, but never really created anything. Ondsel feels really different! But i think this made things click for me! We will see where it goes.
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