I do not understand components and coordinate systems in Fusion 360. Because of that, I may have lost the design I've been drawing all week.
I changed a parameter, and half the things that should have moved did move, and half did not. Curves that had been closed were no longer closed, and things got worse from there.
It looks like parameters used in the Move/Copy command don't update? Do I have to use a rigid joint to fix every component?
I also have grouped things into components incorrectly. For example, I made the two halves of a hinge into one component, because the parts have to mate, and they share sketches and dimensions. But to open the door, the moving part has to be a separate component. I feel like I'm missing something basic.
Yeah, so I started over. Now I'm tying components together with rigid joints and tying them to points on sketches whose measurements use parameters. This is the measurement I tweaked that blew my model up last time...
Wheee! Look at me! I figured out how to get two hinges and a door to move in sync. (Revolute joints for each hinge pin, rigid joints between the pieces, then let F360 figure out the rest.) Anyway, the LACK printer enclosure continues slowly.
As promised, there's just a little #gridfinity storage under the lid.
It's about time to stop pushing pixels and start melting filament. I think this is at least a week of print time and about three Kg of PETG, if I get everything right on the first try. Which I won't.
@3dprinting I'll also have an IKEA MOSSLANDA shelf on the front with another 2x12 #gridfinity slots. My old printer enclosure has that, and I like it a lot.
@3dprinting This is part of the top rail where the Gridfinity bins go.
The two rail pieces are held together by dowel pins, and they are tight and rigid. I made the grid floor a separate insert because I couldn't get a good surface finish when it was printed upside down. (And now it's a contrasting color.) The grid floor is also two pieces joined by dowel pins.
@3dprinting The bottom of the slot between the rails is 0.2mm wider than the top, so the gridfinity tray snaps into place and isn't coming out. (I can push it out from the bottom.) I tried 0.8mm on the first iteration, but I couldn't force the tray in.
@3dprinting The purple piece is the end cap for the LED channel. It press fits into place. The wires will feed into the channel from the other end. This will probably be one of the trickier bits to assemble when sliding this down onto all four legs at once.
The filament is Prusament Ultramarine Transparent PETG. The other colors are Prusament Prusa Orange and Prusament Matte Black. The ultramarine is outside the gamut of most LCD screens.
@3dprinting Here's the other end of the LED channel. It's open on the bottom for wires. I can drill a hole through the table anywhere that is hidden by the square plate and doesn't interfere with the screw holes. I think I'm using JST SM connectors, so the hole needs to be that big.
This is by far the most complex mechanical assembly I've ever designed.
@3dprinting The hinges have bar magnets to hold them closed. That's from Prusa's design, but I moved them to give them about 60% more mechanical advantage and increase the closing force. They feel very satisfying to operate, but I won't know for sure until the doors are attached.
@3dprinting I suspect most of you, like me, get to see the insides of IKEA furniture far too rarely. So here's a LACK table undergoing surgery.
Now I'm trying to excavate out to the corner to find out how much wood is there for the legs. I want to run a cable in next to the leg and hide it inside...
@3dprinting Calling it wood was far too generous. As I expected, there's a block of sawdust-glue porridge in the corner just slightly bigger than the leg. It's hard to measure in there, but it looks like it extends about 60mm from each table edge. When I drill the hole for the cable, I can get a better measurement.
@3dprinting Now that we know where the solid parts are inside the table, we see that most of the screws in Prusa's enclosure design are screwed into air. Hmmm...
@3dprinting I am still working on the printer enclosure when I'm not traveling. Today I made a test piece that slides along an IKEA LACK leg. I put steel dowel pins on two sides for a tight but low-friction fit. It works better than expected.
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