Thank you! This was my first OpenSCAD project - I'm definitely a novice but for simple designs I'm trying to use scad more. I prefer open source, no account, no cloud nonsense - but a model that would take me 5 minutes in SolidWorks or Fusion 360 could take all day for me on OpenSCAD. For now at least, I'll keep at it. Thanks for watching!
Thanks! I spent quite a bit of time on the design. Now that I've used it for a few months I want to do a minor design update for ergonomics but I haven't gotten around to it.. Thanks for watching!
Just found your channel and I really enjoyed seeing the functional prints. Thank you for including links to the files. Great video! Liked and subscribed.
I can't believe it isn't more common! I was looking at designs for bit holders before I made my own and some had small magnets embedded to help hold the bits. I realized a giant magnet on the belt clip would be way more useful. Thanks again for watching!
I just found your video from your Lemmy functional print post. I liked the video and subscribed. Do you have any suggestions for good beginner tutorials for openscad?
Thank you! I don't have any recommendations on tutorials for OpenSCAD but what I do recommend is using Chat GPT to help write OpenSCAD code. I used Chat GPT a bunch for my parametric labels - it didn't write good code (actually almost none of it worked right out of the box) but I gave me something good enough that I could fix the bugs and build off of it myself. I have done a lot of computational coding like Matlab but am definitely not a software developer. I was able to figure it out the basics using Chat GPT, google, and the OpenSCAD documentation. I'm sure there are good tutorials on TH-cam - if you find any that you recommend in the future please let me know!
I feel like a lot of 3D printing enthusiasts print for the sake of printing and use functionality as a justification. You can buy reusable magnetic whiteboard labels for 10 cents each or even just cut a sheet yourself. If you are going to go and buy magnets you might as well just buy the labels and save yourself hours of time + electricity + microplastic waste etc.
Yes this is a fair point - I often joke that I walk around the house with my new solution (3D printer) looking for problems to solve. 3D printers cause plastic waste and generate greenhouse gasses by using power and there's no true way around that. But - so does basically any hobby. Watching a soccer game is also energy intensive and generates a huge amount of waste (think of the stadium and participants).
That's true. At the end of the day it's more fun to make something yourself and learn new techniques in the process. I stumbled across your video not because I needed to solve a problem but because I was looking for problems to solve for the sake of printing something, like you said. And then I realized that 3D printing something might not be the best solution every time. So I need to try and be more mindful.@@AsaMakes
As someone who exclusively prints cool-but-useless things, I am envious of your organizational skills
Thank you! Though it's not all practical, I'm also a big fan of the cool-but- useless prints - especially miniature versions of things for some reason
Thanks for the video. I almost didn't click on it because I thought from the channel name that you focused solely on ASA filament!
Bringing awareness to Asa as a name since 2022. There are dozens of us! Thanks for watching!
Functional prints are by far my favorite category of 3d prints. Great video!
+1 for openscad too
Thank you! This was my first OpenSCAD project - I'm definitely a novice but for simple designs I'm trying to use scad more. I prefer open source, no account, no cloud nonsense - but a model that would take me 5 minutes in SolidWorks or Fusion 360 could take all day for me on OpenSCAD. For now at least, I'll keep at it.
Thanks for watching!
That box cutter is a great design with the cover but also that it fits back into the handle when you take it off !
Thanks! I spent quite a bit of time on the design. Now that I've used it for a few months I want to do a minor design update for ergonomics but I haven't gotten around to it..
Thanks for watching!
Just found your channel and I really enjoyed seeing the functional prints. Thank you for including links to the files. Great video! Liked and subscribed.
Thank you! And if you have requests/ideas for designs feel free to ask
Really glad I found your channel! Surprised TH-cam didn't suggest it before since I watch all the 3D printing stuff. Keep them coming!
Thank you for watching and I'm glad you're enjoying my videos!
I really like that pliers rack on your pegboard. I've never found a good way of storing these, so I'll give that a try. Thanks.
A magnet stuck to a drill is genius
I can't believe it isn't more common! I was looking at designs for bit holders before I made my own and some had small magnets embedded to help hold the bits. I realized a giant magnet on the belt clip would be way more useful.
Thanks again for watching!
Very nice project and video. Thank you.
Thanks Andy! I really appreciate your comment and thanks for watching
I just found your video from your Lemmy functional print post. I liked the video and subscribed. Do you have any suggestions for good beginner tutorials for openscad?
Thank you! I don't have any recommendations on tutorials for OpenSCAD but what I do recommend is using Chat GPT to help write OpenSCAD code. I used Chat GPT a bunch for my parametric labels - it didn't write good code (actually almost none of it worked right out of the box) but I gave me something good enough that I could fix the bugs and build off of it myself.
I have done a lot of computational coding like Matlab but am definitely not a software developer. I was able to figure it out the basics using Chat GPT, google, and the OpenSCAD documentation.
I'm sure there are good tutorials on TH-cam - if you find any that you recommend in the future please let me know!
I feel like a lot of 3D printing enthusiasts print for the sake of printing and use functionality as a justification. You can buy reusable magnetic whiteboard labels for 10 cents each or even just cut a sheet yourself. If you are going to go and buy magnets you might as well just buy the labels and save yourself hours of time + electricity + microplastic waste etc.
Yes this is a fair point - I often joke that I walk around the house with my new solution (3D printer) looking for problems to solve. 3D printers cause plastic waste and generate greenhouse gasses by using power and there's no true way around that. But - so does basically any hobby. Watching a soccer game is also energy intensive and generates a huge amount of waste (think of the stadium and participants).
That's true. At the end of the day it's more fun to make something yourself and learn new techniques in the process. I stumbled across your video not because I needed to solve a problem but because I was looking for problems to solve for the sake of printing something, like you said. And then I realized that 3D printing something might not be the best solution every time. So I need to try and be more mindful.@@AsaMakes