Mechanical Design of A 3D-Printed Sculpture | Love at First Swipe

I set out to create a fully 3D Printed sculpture that would represent our expectations of pretty much everything these days (including love). We want it at our fingertips whenever we want it. Thus, the kinetics of the sculpture are powered by a finger swipe. Swipe to the right, and two halves of the heart come together. But as the old saying goes, easy come/easy go. As soon as you release the swiper, the halves return to their original, divided state.
This project gave me a run for my money- With a total of 4 rack and pinions, 2 gears, linkages, and slots, this really pushes what’s possible with only 3D printed parts.
If you want to print your own Love at First Swipe sculpture you can purchase the STL files here:
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[@fabioteixeira868]

Not only the heart comes apart as soon as you let go of the swiper, but it also becomes tears 😯. Nicely done!

[@Engineezy]

That was an accidental byproduct! Thank you

[@aeiounix]

I did a ctrl+f for tears before posting my comment so as not to be redundant. Too cute.

[@volo870]

@@Engineezy You need to invent a way for those parts to change colors - Blue, when separated, and red - when joined. A parallax barrier perhaps?

[@shyrealist]

​@@volo870 I don't know what a parallax barrier is but a translucent Netherlands flag in front would do the trick 🇳🇱

[@lucaspawprint1888]

@@Engineezy Just pretend it was intentional 👀

[@piyushgehlot2529]

You deserve million subs🖤

[@Brick_Bunker_Official]

A billion

[@Engineezy]

Thanks everyone 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Iceavius_]

Agree

[@TheBlueMuzzy]

I definitely need more of your videos. I'm a 3d modeler, just stepping into woodworking and always had an engineer's soul. Much love - and this time it's earned. Brilliant social commentary packed into a very cool mechanism.

[@Engineezy]

Thanks! I will do my best to do more videos like this!

[@flumyxx]

I love the heartfelt message at the end.

[@justinbanks2380]

I like seeing your process behind this and l love the meaning you gave it, that it comes easy, but if you're not attentive, it goes just as easy

[@Engineezy]

Nailed it! Thanks for watching :)

[@SwissplWatches]

What an amazing cool design. Nice to watch the process. Inspiring.

[@Engineezy]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 😀

[@Brick_Science]

that was super cool!

[@Engineezy]

Thank you!

[@Creative_Electronics]

Everyting in ths video was just amazing! Nice mechanism

[@Engineezy]

Thank you 🙏🙏

[@Rebar77_real]

Great work on this, holy cow! Was checking out RobBob on your site. Cool beans. What do you think of a circular marble labyrinth puzzle on its head? But keep the same constraints on it. Could be interesting, eh? Multi-level it with ramps you can go back up too, muahaha. Thanks and cheers!

[@Engineezy]

Love where your head is at! Maybe in the future 🤷‍♀️

[@neilishm1295]

underrated channel

[@Engineezy]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Mathoose]

Love the messages at the end of every video

[@Engineezy]

Thank you!

[@3DPrinterAcademy]

I've been missing the JBV youtube vids! Great design! ⚙️❤🤖

[@Engineezy]

Thanks Steven! Hopefully more to come (a little more consistently)

[@bowieinc]

Great sculpture! So, I’m in a 3D printing slump. Just can’t seem to think of anything interesting or needed to model and print right now. Watching these give me so much inspiration. 😊

[@Engineezy]

Amazing, glad I could help!

[@DoctorZombo]

Not sure if it was intentional, but coincidentally when the mecanism is released the two halves of the heart look like tears. How very poetic

[@Engineezy]

It wasn’t intentional but it’s definitely poetic. I’ll take it 😀

[@HybridlifeOrg]

Very impressive creativity and skills

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Brick_Bunker_Official]

How do your prints look so smooth and perfect instantly!

[@Engineezy]

It's all the Prusa! but also, the white filament does look smooth relative to other colours

[@doronsussman5210]

A very talented Engineer and Designer.

[@Engineezy]

Thanks Doron!

[@elouanhosford4376]

I love the message

[@Engineezy]

🙏🙏

[@lpwthestudio]

Just found you and now to start binge watching. Great work my friend!

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! Glad you like this type of content!

[@miriamramstudio3982]

Excellent !!!!

[@Engineezy]

Thank you!!

[@Sa-nx5wg]

You are amazing and soo inspiring ❤️

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! Glad you can find some inspiration from my work :)

[@malvoliosf]

You should put wedge-shaped mortise and tenons on the inside faces of the half-hearts so they align perfectly when they close.

[@MultiTropicalMan]

Hi, I’m a senior year mechanical engineering student and also enjoy 3D printing projects like these. While watching your videos I have a couple design and software questions come to mind. How much do you pay for your solid works license and what version is it? At school we get the academic version but when I graduate I know I will loose access to it and will need to get my own license. For your 3D printed gears do you source gears from the SolidWorks part library or create them yourself? I had a class my junior year that was all about the design of gears and quickly learned that there is a lot of math and complexity that goes into designing a good and efficient gear train. Do you use a glue stick to get your 3D parts to stick to the Prusa bed? I just got my first Prusa and I use a glue stick to get my parts to stick but I’m hoping they’re is a better way. Keep up the good work! I’m going into design engineering after I graduate and I really enjoy your design methodology.

[@Engineezy]

For Solidworks, they sponsor me with a license, but there is a maker version which is $99 and has all the features. For gears, I use my own library- its available for free on my website! And for the prusa I’ve never had any problems with adhesion. I use the smooth sheets and they really work well. Hope that helps!

[@troybaxter]

As a heads up Fusion 360 has a free maker’s version. While I honestly don’t like it as much as I like Autodesk Inventor, it is still good to know there is some CAD software out there that is decent and can be downloaded for free.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Hey this is fantastic!😍

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SwissWatchGang]

@@Engineezy yea man. As a watch geek myself this is pure magic what you’re doing

[@brodybestluck]

Wow that was Deep at the end

[@Engineezy]

😎

[@wanglydiaplt]

I like the Scotch yoke!

[@toocringeforyou9665]

I can't even lie I love the aesthetic of the design man it feels so detailly idk how to explain it but it's too good

[@Engineezy]

Appreciate it!

[@masterofscience4829]

just amazing work bro. keep it up :)

[@Engineezy]

Thank you so much 😀

[@keenansmith82]

Good man. Encouraging yourself and others. Making the world a better place even after you made it a better place because it should be better.

[@Engineezy]

That is definitely the goal! Thanks Keenan

[@jp0924]

omg so good keep going

[@Engineezy]

🙏🙏🙏

[@umuthafaqa2706]

One heart turns into 2 tear drops. Nice

[@rajubhai21puzzle]

Really you deserve million SUBSCRIBERS 99.9%

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! All in time hopefully!

[@christianbureau6732]

Thanks

[@fluffymexican5771]

This guy definitely caught my attention because I’ve always seen auto CAD in high school but wasn’t allowed to do it because of me being in my senior year. Now I am exploring my options as to what I want to do as a career and CAD has definitely caught my eye.

[@fluffymexican5771]

This guy got my subscription and like lol

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@Pcoxproductions]

Nice

[@Brick_Bunker_Official]

Those prints are perfect right off the printer!

[@Engineezy]

All credit goes to Prusa!

[@morganscott1697]

I was the 1.7k like, great work man, also you earned yourself a new subscriber!

[@Engineezy]

Awesome, thank you!

[@elijahmanning1996]

One added philosophy to the sculpture, with love coming so easily, when it is it returns to its resting state. Which looks perfectly like tears, which you'd cry until your heart was complete again

[@Engineezy]

So true!

[@diy_wizard]

Interessting to see you problem solving! I guess I would have given up because of lack of time ;)

[@Engineezy]

I wanted to at time for sure, or at least try a different mechanism

[@avvasaipranav6729]

Would love to watch a horology series by you. Great videos.

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! Working on a video about my clock design- coming soon :)

[@enb3810]

Solidworks seems incredibly powerful, can you maybe explain how you got the gears/etc to move kinematically?

[@kidwhodoesntknowcad]

Haha I love it dude keep makeing

[@Engineezy]

Thanks Kid 👊

[@kidwhodoesntknowcad]

👊

[@SayonR]

I am awaiting the day Tinder or some other Dating App partners with you and starts giving these out at their events! These are so Good! 💙

[@Engineezy]

Oooh love where your head is at!

[@perezv77]

hello, I wanted to ask a question, the mouse you currently use is the zelotes c-18. If so, how do you have the joystick buttons configured to work as a 3d mouse?. Very cool things you do in the videos

[@Engineezy]

It's not exactly a 3D mouse, that would be cool though. I've mapped the joystick to a few hot keys that I regularly use!

[@joonyjun7861]

Nice profile picture upgrade

[@Engineezy]

Thanks 😊

[@EdwardTikhonovFinteks]

Hello. Please tell me what program do you use for modeling?

[@keno926]

It looks really great and I love the idea behind it. May I ask how you learned all about the gears? I want to start learning about them too, but I have no clue where to start. Thanks and great invention !!

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! I started by making a single gear ratio and have progressed from there- My recommendation to you, download this free gear library from my website and start playing around: jbvcreative.com/products/copy-of-m2-gear-library-step-files

[@keno926]

@@Engineezy thank you very much!

[@user-to3hl7ps6c]

Can you do a gear solid works tutorial

[@Lysou]

"after a bit a subtractive manufacturing" 😂😂

[@Engineezy]

😅😅

[@user-rb3kk1pb3z]

Use four bar linkage on the heart may get a better result.

[@karounkapedrokilombo2374]

I love your vidéos, do you give solidworks courses, we are really interested

[@Engineezy]

Thank you! I don’t but there are some great ones out there!

[@karounkapedrokilombo2374]

@JBVCreative oh you will be a great teacher I think.. thank you 😇

[@jamesryan1423]

I printed all the parts but just now realized there's no how to video to put it together. Do you by chance have one?

[@maka5955]

Nice two meaning.. two tears or hearth.

[@jpberti]

I use Fusion 360. What software are your using here?

[@stupidboy2797]

This video lasts for some really nice ammount of time

[@kostixxx442]

Bro, where can I buy stl file of flowers?

[@ferb2842]

This software you use is autocad, solidworks, imagine or what? Welsome job

[@Engineezy]

Solidworks!

[@sealightube333]

Maybe it help if you replace the T shape with a Y shape, it can be push the half parts equally... maybe...

[@ericcmcgraw]

This. He designed the mechanism to end on a singularly, you can't expect any control authority much less precision in that state. With a slant in the slots, they would maintain control throughout the range of motion.

[@natl9480]

What filament do you use ?

[@Engineezy]

pla+ from esun

[@jo-annelesar4170]

Could you make something military enspired

[@kainleo7339]

hello, could I ask which software you use for this mechanical design?

[@Engineezy]

I'm using Solidworks!

[@kainleo7339]

thank you！🙆🏾‍♀️

[@ixl4710]

I know you may not respond, but. What can software did you use In this video?

[@Engineezy]

It’s called Solidworks!

[@ixl4710]

@@Engineezy Many thanks!

[@thinktwice1004]

Good job.. Ill buy it soon.. I have a request for a work I have a model i want you to design it for me please.. Ill buy it too.. How can i contact u?

[@sinaasglas]

a bit of a.. heart time

[@anandhukrishnankutty4010]

Which application was that ,

[@Engineezy]

Its called Solidworks!

[@Bubbashin]

You might not see this but changing the Heart to a broken heart might work better because then the align themselves

[@Engineezy]

Not a bad idea!

[@buttqueef9900]

This is fly, sexy, and beautiful. Anyone who says otherwise is cool or whatever but I will look at you sideways. 👀

[@Engineezy]

Thanks BQ!

[@phant0m214]

witch is insightful. But u broke it down in simple man's terms. I can't wait to ss around with what you taught and see the different

[@lkahfi]

It look like tear drop if you didn't swipe

[@Engineezy]

True!!

[@Harinair72]

Bloody awesome... The looong distance between the drawing room and the actual product... May you not marry, have children, diseases, and worries for the next so many years.. So that you can continue your passions! Just kidding... Wish you the best of everything bro!

[@Engineezy]

Hahahaha! Thank you :)

[@planet_today]

Too much gears & parts, you can use simple mechanism this X

[@ecby5269]

Hello fake mr beast 2

[@danisvanson50]

Is it fusion360 that he is using ?