How To Design a Print in Place 3D Printed Hinge in Plasticity

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In this video we are going to look at 2 variations of a 3D printed hinge design in Plasticity. If you are looking to purchase plasticity remember we are an affiliate and the code LEAD10 will get you 10% off at checkout and help out the channel. www.Plasticity.xyz
For this design we are going to walk through how to set up a pivot and talk about the differences between printing them as 2 pieces vs the gaps and tolerance needed to make the same design Print in Place.
There are many styles of hinges but this one prints well at many different sizes and has good engagement.

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@danielbautistafernandez5331 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for this tutorial! Waiting for the printer to finish to see how the PIP hinge comes up. Loving your content!

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Let me know how it works out for you! Depending on which printer you are using you might find that .125mm gap isn't enough.

@danielbautistafernandez5331 3 ай бұрын

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign needed to tinkered a bit with the tolerance but I got a successful hinge at the third try. Looking forward to implement this in future designs. Thanks again!

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 3 ай бұрын

@@danielbautistafernandez5331 Glad you got it sorted! How big did you have to go for your gap?

@danielbautistafernandez5331 2 ай бұрын

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Hi! Sorry for the late reply. Today I went over the tutorial again and I used a gap of 0.16mm. It came out great. Printed in a BambuLab X1C at 0.16mm layer height. Stock settings, just changed wall generator to Arachne. When slicing the hinge, I noticed that the seams (aligned position) were very close to the other piece, so I printed two pieces, one with "aligned seams", and another with "random seams". The second one feels much better and was also easier to break. Thanks again for the tutorial! I will try to design different hinges based on this video.

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 2 ай бұрын

@@danielbautistafernandez5331 Awesome thanks for sharing!!

@davidwalton6308 3 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for doing a hinge. I am looking to use Plasticity to design things I can print so this was VERY helpful.

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@unger_cnc 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial! Just bought the software with your coupon code. Really liking this workflow in Plasticity so much better than fusion 360 and alibre.

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 3 ай бұрын

Awesome and thank you!

@MisterkeTube 2 ай бұрын

Really? Looking at this video, I was continuously thinking "that entire thing takes me 1 sketch and a few extrudes in Fusion or OnShape". Also, when 3D printing hinges, you can have one side go completely through the other one, basically bridging through the hole in the other part. As long as that bridge isn't too long, that will work fine and you can have multiple of such smaller holes/bridges aside each other to get more strength. And fully going through the other piece will make things much stronger than this tapered design.

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 2 ай бұрын

@@MisterkeTube Yes in a different program you could put all the details in one sketch, but that isn't how plasticity works. You could create all the curves at once if you wanted to but honestly it makes it a bit harder and they aren't in a "sketch". Curves can be joined but not all curves. And yes you can certainly have one side go through the other, but in this case I was comparing the same hinge design that is Print in Place vs printing 2 pieces. The print in place part can be disassembled if needed and would give it the closest comparison. Doing the non print in place variation you couldn't get the pivot to extend through so it wouldn't have been a fair test. As I stated I generally don't use PiP hinges simply because they limit geometry a bit more having to get both sides of a hinged part to print in a certain orientation. I like the freedom of being able to print the parts and then assemble them allowing for more complexity. Do you use PiP hinges more than other methods? If i need a strong hinge I would probably add a pin.

@anamewithnoface1330 Ай бұрын

This tutorial has been super helpful! I was wondering if you would consider doing a guide on Designing connectors for 3d printing, to split a model into printable chunks in the design phase. Regardless, A sub from me, thanks!

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign Ай бұрын

Great suggestion! i have done this with Fusion in another series for a fender flare, but have some 3d printing content planned for Plasticity. Ill add it to the list.

@anamewithnoface1330 Ай бұрын

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign really glad to hear that. thanks for all your hard work on these guides.

@The.JZA. 18 күн бұрын

Sorry off topic but you reminded me of this issue I have been having in plasticity. When I try to wrap text onto a face I constantly get errors and even when I do manage to get it to work, any of the tiny lines in the text disappear and therefore they are not closed shapes and wont make a face that I can then extrude. Why does plasticity have these limits on size? Surely I should be able to go into the settings and add a decimal place to the accuracy so that I can model small things?

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 18 күн бұрын

im not aware of any limitations. does the exact same thing work if you do it larger? Are you using the new Deform tool or something else?

@The.JZA. 18 күн бұрын

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign I havent heard of deform. I will have a look at it. I have a curved face which I select and then use the "unwrap face" command. I then generate text and make sure that it sits within the bounds of the rectangle that is created. I then select the text and rectangle (with the lines tool) and then select the original face (with the faces tool) and then use the "wrap face" command. I have managed to get this to work a handful of times but most of the time I get errors. If I am using a temporary work plane = error, if I am not using any work plane = different error it's just so unreliable and very frustrating. There is no assistance within the app to explain what is wrong or why it isn't working and as I said before, I have managed to get it to work a handful of times (doing the exact same procedure) but then I noticed that only some of my letters were complete closed loops and I realised that some letters have very short lines in the details and these disappear if they are too small. Seems like a limitation of the software where if anything is less than 1mm length it just disappears. Note that I am using plasticity on MacOS (M1 Pro) so perhaps this is an issue with the MacOS version that does not occur on windows? I can try installing on my PC and see if it works there but in general I prefer to work on my Mac and just keep the PC for gaming because.. well... Windows....

@LearnEverythingAboutDesign 17 күн бұрын

@@The.JZA. Deform is a great addition! I covered it in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/goSklGerrt2Hl9E It works a lot better than the wrap face command so hopefully it will fix issues. Sadly I don't have experience using Plasticity on a Mac but I haven't personally run into the same issue you have BUT I don't generally wrap text with wrap face especially not for small details like that.