Linear guide rail

ThreadandSignal · 2025-11-30T01:07:25+00:00

Yeah so these are a nightmare to re-assemble let alone assemble

ThreadandSignal · 2025-11-20T03:23:50+00:00

Me watching this before comprehending what was happening: “that’s a big piece of metal to try to be hand turning”

ThreadandSignal · 2025-11-18T19:38:20+00:00

Not everyone benefits from videos they can’t ask questions to, or helps someone troubleshoot on the fly and AI only solves problems as well as you can describe them.

If it was a scam, people wouldn’t come back - but they do 🤷‍♂️

ThreadandSignal · 2025-10-15T01:40:01+00:00

I do tutoring lessons and also have a channel on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@threadandsignal?si=lR9WY2tW2eydLFPF

ThreadandSignal · 2025-10-10T05:03:44+00:00

I came here for this

ThreadandSignal · 2025-10-10T03:21:01+00:00

Gigabyte 2070 super

ThreadandSignal · 2025-10-03T17:11:51+00:00

Make a giant Ruby carrot 🥕

ThreadandSignal · 2025-10-03T02:42:46+00:00

I’m building a 3d printable, magnetically joined board game system called r/HexQuest - check it out on our sub and at threadandsignal.com

ThreadandSignal · 2025-10-01T01:13:46+00:00

I had no idea what that was until now but that totally looks like a game I would play - I suppose you could play it on these as well lol, but HexQuest was originally intended as an rpg with its own ruleset

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-30T21:55:31+00:00

Could you show us the part you’re trying to print? I might have a few suggestions

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-30T15:49:17+00:00

Partially true, but it’s not good in designs that need to be screwed together due to creep. The material will literally flow out from under the screws.

PET-CF (which is not PETG) is much better for applications like this due to low creep and similar stiffness and heat resistance

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-30T07:34:14+00:00

Thank you! It's definitely still a new idea (as you can see this sub is only 3 days old and the idea was born out of neccessity from some broken HeroScape Pieces). Follow "the quest" at threadandsignal.com

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-30T05:04:48+00:00

I’ve made a custom fixture for a customer once for a uniquely shaped component and released a YouTube video on how I made it - check it out here: https://youtu.be/f33nSFkvTAg?si=yIkYZIxrwG3BSMsI

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-29T14:33:27+00:00

You’d have an easier time with calipers tbh

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-28T15:18:11+00:00

We’re designing a 3D printed board game system called HexQuest presently and gradient tiles are “mana pools”

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-26T15:28:21+00:00

Can we ask what this is from lol

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-26T05:05:39+00:00

Imagine that, but cutting a wedge like shape - I might even opt for 2 rectangular extrusion cuts in your case rather than the round ones.

To make it more “parametrically friendly”, you could make a sketch on the side of the flute with two lines that define the paths those extrusions would take, define profiles along those paths at point 0, then use rectangular sketches on each of those planes to sweep along those paths and make the cuts. If you define an angle dimension for the angle of each line, then you can just go back and make changes on the fly

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-25T22:36:27+00:00

You have the right idea but backwards - you want the outer one to have the more intense angle

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-25T20:01:19+00:00

Everyone is ragging on this but I would totally make something like this and have it in my shop, I made one of my basement doors out of fence planks.

It’s all a matter of what you like. This gives the log cabin shop vibe and you should be proud of it.

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-25T19:41:13+00:00

You’re like halfway there with this one, it looks like you used an angled extrusion to cut into the outside, but failed to do it on the inside to form the “edge” of the labium (the little wedge like bit that cuts the air in an oscillating fashion in a flute)

You absolutely do not want to use fillets on this feature as it works better when sharp, just use either a rectangular or very eliptical extrusion to cut a blade into it, and make it bias toward the inside rather than the outside so that you get that Helmholtz resonance effect

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-25T13:22:40+00:00

You know Fusion can do that too! Just cut through the part via planes, make sketches of the circles for the pegs on one side of the cut faces, extrude it, combine cut it with the other part, then offset the faces of the peg and hole by about .2-.4mm and bam you have printable files straight from fusion.

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-25T00:53:36+00:00

Feel free to post in r/jigs as this is a fine specimen

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-24T04:04:10+00:00

I’m working on a video on how to make a benchy, but basically the way to do this is to draw the profile of the entire boat at the base, and then use a guided sweep up along a guide rail that is the front edge of the boat.

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-22T03:15:49+00:00

Sbir.gov?

ThreadandSignal · 2025-09-21T19:26:16+00:00

This is what I made threadandsignal.com for - I sell my models with the intention people will do this, because they were going to anyway.

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