The Field Lab: Tinkercad

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Spent most of the day modeling parts for a grasshopper escapement so I can make them with my 3D printer. 77,85,57,0,B

intermittent marathonian 00 said...: Do you design parts such as those on a dimensioned isometric electronic grid, or a 3D graphics program from which you can input information to the printer ?

Thanks.; April 7, 2020 at 8:00 PM
John Wells said...: This file started out as a jpeg I found online and was converted to an svr file that Tinkercad could understand so I could manipulate it as a 3D image. It is then saved as an stl file and imported into a "slicing program" called Cura that turns it into a gcode file with settings that the 3D printer can print from.; April 8, 2020 at 8:04 AM
intermittent marathonian 00 said...: Thanks very much for the explanation.

It is really impressive that you have figured out how to integrate and work across those various programs.

So ultimately the "slices" are like a series of defined finite elements that the printer can follow.; April 8, 2020 at 7:19 PM

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