Corner Brackets | Design for Mass Production 3D Printing
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Published 2023-08-01
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00:00 Using 3D Printing for Industrial Hardware
00:45 Simple 'L' Bracket Design
01:47 Triangle Corner Bracket
02:43 Print Orientation for Triangle Bracket
04:38 Fully Optimized Corner Bracket for 3D Printing
06:06 Print Orientation for Optimized Corner Bracket
07:22 Utilize the Superpowers of 3D Printing
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All Comments (21)
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Man I love these videos. It makes me realize that many parts need to be redesigned for 3D printing, whether for the worst or for the best. Keep making those!!
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It's not often I feel like I learn something genuinely useful on YT. Today with this video I did. Not the bracket design but the consideration of the physical properties in a different way to how I normally do.
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It would be cool to have (and maybe it already exists) a chart of optimal 3d printed design equivalents for typical sheet metal type parts like this little bracket.
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Ultra pro move: add a feature that locks into the T slot on one side for both pieces of tubing. Keep the continuity of layer loops intact.
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As an experiment, I printed a rather long and reasonable heavy L bracket that wasn't even symmetrical on its corner. It printed on a single layer width corner, one line of PLA+, and it printed perfectly. I actually printed it on both flats, sitting on both outward corners, and sitting only on the sharp corner, and the single line corner print got me the best results. If I was going to mass produce it I would definitely add some surface area to keep it stable, but I was super impressed. Great video!
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Please stop saying various parts are impossible to make with injection molding, blowmolding, extrusion, etc. It's perfectly fine, and far more accurate to say they are generally more difficult/expensive/complicated, and therefore only used in applications where they are warranted. Saying they are impossible makes you look bad to people who have experience designing and manufacturing such "impossible" parts. Engineers are clever people. They can do remarkable things with a little careful thought and creative execution.
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Thank you for this explanation. This topic is hard to explain and is unintuitive to most people. And 100% agree on supports. They have no place in production setting.
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I love how excited you are about FDM printing. It feels like the Reprap days when the possibilities were endless.
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Optimum might be viewed as being able to piece bits of it together as needed. If you only need internal bracing (say front panel or accessories), just use the internal brace. If you need to keep the internal space clear (i.e. if you're putting a panel in the extrusion), then use the external bracing. If you only need max strength (and don't mind covering up slots/surfaces), then use both internal and external bracing.
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I just started 3D modeling, this is PURE GOLD, your content deserves way more attention than the things that go viral about 3D printing, i really really love your videos man, Gracias!
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so good, you not only give the answer but help build a thought process
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Great video! Something I learned after buying my first Ultimaker in 2013. Great explanation and example. CR-30 belt got me printing in 45 degrees
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been planning to create a corner bracket for my acoustic panels and this video helped a tonne!!!! thank you!!!
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Damn. I've been designing 3D printed parts for a few years now but this still gave me some new concepts to think about. Thanks!
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Really enjoy these videos. I’m new to 3D printing and I’m glad I’m learning this now. 3D parts should not be replications of metal components.
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The video is very well made. As a design engineer this is the best way to optimize and really help you find a better way.
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Thanks for sharing 👍🏼 Would have been nice to see some real tests and see how the strong the different designs are
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Another great video to challenge us to think differently because we have a tool that is very different from all the other tools we are used to using. That’s a big part of the fun!
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This is great. Two L-brackets can be combine by rotating them 90 degrees from each other to form a corner of a frame. I can immediately use this to for a lightweight frame that combines my functional parts as well as the clearances needed to allow parts to move and wires to be routed. Since the screw is not load bearing along the axis, I can just use appropriate tolerances in the plastic so I won't need a nut. In fact, since some elements of the frame have almost no load, I can just use pins or 3d printed detents so that those parts just snap together.
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This highlights what I have been trying to explain to people in a beautiful and concise way, thank you
