Working through dimensions for panels on my new v5 build because this one will be enclosed. I’ve cut the extrusion, but making the panels has never been an easy thing. I have a laser to cut them, but I don’t have extra to waste for iterating through dimensional changes… It needs to be correct the first time through. Was hoping to use the parametric features of fusion to scale to 210x210 bed size. Any ideas?
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I know the Fusion360 link has changed several times without warning. Maybe @vicious1 can re-link and share it?
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I am at a loss here.
Fusion will not load on my computer anymore. No files show in the web browser. They will not let me download a new fusion install with my email since my free trial is over with. I am really not sure what to do. They changed every link, I updated a bunch of them and it seems they updated them all again.
The only way to get those files is to pay for a new license. Seems a little shady to me to change the links, twice.
Looks like I can pay for a single month, but if they keep changing the links that is kinda pointless.
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Wow that sucks.
Very shady.
Is there an egress path for this to get it to OnShape or FreeCAD?
I’d be up to help liberate the design from F360, as I still have a full parts kit just needing to put the machine together.
You should be able to login and have read only access to your files.
Didn’t they announce like a year ago that they were going to take away shared links from non-paid accounts?
I seem to remember getting an e-mail about that awhile ago…can’t find anything with a quick google but did find some support threads saying that only teams accounts can share projects now personal accounts and free accounts can’t.
Personally I’m really torn on CAD offerings. I was a big fan of onShape and didn’t care for F360 - until onShape changed their license that free plans could only have public domain projects (not just open - but full public domain.) I share just about everything I do - but I do still want to maintain my ownership rights over what I create even if I’m giving the designs away.
So I gave in and switched to F360 - they had just changed from being only cloud to allowing free users to download project files. Then they had a special that was good enough I paid for several years up front…since then they changed the rules again and free users were now limited to very few on-line projects. And I’m pretty sure they changed it again to limit sharing of cloud projects for free users and individuals.
I’d gladly pay for an onShape license…if they had one at a price point that comes even remotely close to making sense for a home user. $1,500 a year is way too much - that’s about what I paid for 4 years of F360 on the sale price.
FreeCAD has come a long way…but still just doesn’t rub me the right way. It reminds me of Gimp…Yeah…it works…but after years of using Photoshop it just never felt right even once it was stable. (Inkscape I can actually use better than illustrator - but that’s probably mostly because I’m terrible at vector art and could never figure out illustrator…but did learn enough inkscape to make designs for my eggbot when I first built it.)
OpenSCAD is amazing…but…there are projects where I want to code a design…and projects where I really want something more visual. I still use openSCAD for some things…but for me it’s no a replacement for a full GUI based CAD.
I think I still have a year left on my F360 license…so…maybe I need to start putting more time into trying FreeCAD again. And double check to make sure I’ve downloaded F3D and STEP files of ALL my projects again.
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Crappy…
Being a “free for personal use” user, the only way I get to share Fusion stuff is save it as a fusion archive and have peiple import the file, which loses all of the revisioning when they import it. I save copies of stuff that way when I download, so if the original is updated when I’ve been monkeying with it, stuff doesn’t break. This is kinda important, 'cause Fusion360 stuff can break in really weird ways with revisioning.
So importing an archive is always “version 1” regardless of what version it was when it was exported. Not very good for collaboration projects with the free version…
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If anyone made their own copy it still should be a valid link, just not my link. So if you used my link to make any edit you should still have a full copy.
No direct parametric export from F360, best we could get is a step file assembly (for most I think that is pretty hard to deal with).
Yeah that would be great. I just got to another computer, I will try to log in again from this one.
Well I am in, but I can not share the files. That is a huge bummer. Obviously I did not read the fine print but I assumed once I shared a file it was shared for good.
Best I can do is the fusion export and a step export.
V1E+V5.zip (8.3 MB)
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Thanks for looking into this. Found the metric tape measure and got some foam board to test cut and mocked it up. good thing. the Y side wasn’t quite right, but minor adjustment and it should be fine. Iterating on that will get things to fit as they need to when cutting the real sides. Sorry for the trouble.
No trouble at all.
I rebuilt almost the whole thing in OnShape. I think it was missing some of the tool mounts, and maybe the panels.
I used it as my “Learn Onshape” project. I never posted it because
- it’s not 100% complete, and
- my printer is already built, so I’m not using it to verify anything. So any mistakes I made would not be found by me. I didn’t want to put a model out there with errors.
It would take someone with the time and the will to verify some things, and maybe even complete some things.
The last time I worked on it, which appears to be about a year ago, I think the parametric stuff all still worked.
It also has, I think, all of the hardware put in, so realistically is not far off from an accurate BOM.
I just don’t know if it’s worth the effort unless we know it’s the last MP3DP version, otherwise a V6 will replace it anyway
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I have no issues with you posting a link. I trust it is close enough if not a perfect copy.
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I sure hope not!
Still, considering my stalled build, this sure looks like I should take a close look.
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Turns out the document has been public anyway.
Here’s the link. It should be open to make your own copy and do whatever with
I haven’t opened it in a while, and don’t remember the exact state of everything.
I was trying to learn so I spent a bit of time filling out all of the hardware, and trying to get all of the assemblies just right.
Right as I was about to do the other tool mounts, I was starting to see how I could use configurations to make it switch out all kinds of things… and then I had big plans… and then… who knows… I went off and did something else instead…
It got to the point where I felt like I did enough learning and was ready to move on to something else.
I do think everything SHOULD be right, but I was redrawing everything from the Fusion file, and Fusion is an absolute pain to try to work out where all the projections, etc. come from… so who knows.
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Sweet!
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