Connect 3D Printed Parts | Design for Mass Production 3D Printing

[@jbrownson]

Would be helpful to show the assembly of the S, I think I'm picturing how it goes into the first one, but not sure how it would go into the second one and be secure.

[@slant3d]

Slide

[@chriswisneski6071]

​@@slant3dI get the concept, but if like to hear more about the design parameters (i.e. how to set up tolerances and such)

[@DaveEtchells]

@@slant3d​​⁠I get that the S slides into place, but I’m confused about one thing: When talking about the spring fingers, you spoke as though the other designs didn’t involve any flexing. It seems like the ends of the S must flex to snap into place and hold the parts together though. Is it just that the flex is across a greater distance, so it’s less tweaky to design? (I absolutely love this design for manufacturing series btw; the vids are useful, educational and interesting, seeing how you arrive at solutions that match the constraints and requirements. 👍👍👍)

[@NoMoreBsPlease]

​@@slant3dhe's asking how it stays in place with no glue or anything? Won't it flex and pop out?

[@KeithKyzivat]

I came here to say the same thing. Another video going into the specifics of the S would be nice - even a KZbin Short showing the assembly and linking to this video would be great. I also really like this design for manufacturing series - great stuff! I appreciate you spending the time sharing your expertise, and your employer for allowing you to do it. I also expect it provides you guys some well earned free advertising for Slant3d's services.

[@mono9196]

Who is this person? Straight to the point. No intro craps! Love it! Ahah hello, glad to to bump into intro-free videos. Just what I need

[@roboman2444]

One thing that can really help is to put material between the snap fit bending tabs. Give them enough clearance to click into place, but keeps them from being over-bent and snapped off. It will also give slightly better fit since it is more material.

[@Netherlands031]

Yeah I don't get quite how the S works either? And how it's not a mechanism yet the clips are

[@AckzaTV]

S shape just worked with geometry to hold stuff in place that aren't that important

[@AsocPro]

Mechanism has a flexing/moving part the s has no moving parts it slides into the part as is

[@kzone272]

​@@AsocPro the S will flex as much as any other piece of plastic when force is applied

[@shokdj1]

It’s known as a compliant mechanism you should look it up can do some pretty awesome stuff with compliant mechanism

[@a.1441]

The s piece goes into a wide slot and hooks around the thin slot. The S doesn't bend at all and thus doesn't need to be tuned to be compliant

[@EggplatnmWatch]

Love the informational videos about how to design parts. I don't mass print, but I do a lot a printing for various projects, and all the little tips you give add up. Things like designing the part around not needing supports, I hate taking supports off

[@EveryFlavorRobot]

From a robotics channel - huge thank you for the tips! Motors and software are critical, but the maker community needs more content like this to optimize our hardware 😊

[@izzieb]

I really appreciate this informative video about pegging with 3D prints. Thank you.

[@slant3d]

Thanks for watching

[@cateyenebula]

😂

[@MA_SK_ID]

Seriously one of the most useful printing/ 3D design videos I have ever stumbled upon. You, good sir, have earned a subscribe!

[@slant3d]

Welcome aboard!

[@d3thedancer341]

Perfect walkthrough and very succinct, thank you!

[@ambersample3354]

You made this so easy to understand! Thank you for all that you do, I am now a subscriber.

[@qbalsdon]

Thanks so much for this, the square peg was just what I needed!

[@haraldlonn898]

All this info videos of how to design 3D prints are really good. I have used some and am happy to have learned this great ways of how to create better prints.

[@joepartlow]

Always great info!

[@slant3d]

thanks so much

[@ChuckMcKnight]

I'm a huge fan of snap fits myself. I like to avoid having to glue parts whenever possible, and these usually do the job just fine.

[@HunterBobbey]

any advice on where to find the dimensional specs to properly design snap fits?

[@ChuckMcKnight]

@@HunterBobbey I'm not sure what specs you're looking for exactly. The snaps can be pretty much any size, as long as they're big enough to have a few wall lines. Honestly, I just take a stab at it, run a test print of both sides, and adjust if needed.

[@rezaab6223]

Perfect as always

[@shokdj1]

Oh bugger I wish I’d thought of that I have round ones pegs lol. Nice video I’m glad it popped up

[@BradKwfc]

I'm working on a 3d printed TPU electronics case which holds several small oscilloscopes and frequency generators. I designed a hole and bulb style connector. It's basically a type of snap fit. The hole & bulb enables me to print each wall flat on the print bed, so each walll face looks great when printed on a textured bed, and it holds everything together really well. Thanks for these videos. Great stuff!

[@kdt85]

Awesome! Do you have a video about box latches and maybe hinges? I've tried putting in place and filament rivet hinges saved they both with well but I've not found a satisfying clasp yet. Slide lids like domino cases are also easy to print

[@mpiercebgtek]

What is the cad package you are using

[@tristin5723]

Filament rivets are my go to.

[@BluePhantomCreations]

Super helpful, Thanks!

[@slant3d]

You're welcome!

[@spacehunter2945]

Are these stls available to download? I wouldn't mind printing to feel them out

[@paveltsvetkov7948]

I'm a simple man. I see Slant 3D's video - I press Like

[@slant3d]

Thank you

[@paveltsvetkov7948]

​@@slant3dThank you for not keeping your experience to yourself. Used some of your tricks for my hobby projects.

[@happyeverafter1797]

re: Idea - Buckles and Slider for Pet Collars, Guitar Straps, and More. Hi, thank you for the video lesson. You asked for topic ideas? Have you done a video on making buckles and sliders? I don't know how strong they could be made, but I can think of a three big advantages for a 3D Printed buckle or slider. The first is cost, even at WalMart the lowest priced buckle (say for a dog collar) is $3. The second is size options, my WalMart only has two sizes. And the third (and most important) is plastic mechanisms won't scratch what they are attached to (for example a plastic slider on a guitar strap wont would be a really good thing (if it's strong enough). I feel like it all comes down to strength of the buckle or slider. I wouldn't expect to use it for say a car towing strap, but it would be REALLY AWESOME to use on custom horse show bridle (I don't mean wild horses, I mean easy going show horses that go into auto-pilot in the arena LOL and NOT for use on the saddle girth, just the headstall). Same with making dog collars - perhaps if they're not strong enough for a large dog, what about smaller dogs? Or if not cats, or even ferrets? And then of course there's the fake buckles for purses, jackets, boots, etc. Aside from strength there's the looks - It's impossible to compete with a high quality engraved silver and all attempts look like cheap knock-offs. So, to do it right, the piece would need to function like the engraved silver without attempting to look like it. Not sure how to do this, but with a little of tweaking to the basic shape and adding in the uniqueness of the 3D printer's effects (ie. it's ability to emboss the edges, or I don't know etch out leaf patters on even small pieces).... are y'alls creative wheels spinning?? I hope cause that's all I got LOL Thanks again for this video and for reading this long comment. God Bless y'all (from Texas) TifKat

[@BradBiggsII]

Love the rants, well news that ends in rants. But also stumbled across your videos on making prints for mass production. 90% of them work for a small startup 3D printing business. So many great ideas for small changes. Few awesome ideas for products to make and sell. Also great that I can setup the Etsy App to handle any huge spikes until I can get more printers. Or just push through a small spike in sales. Love your mentality of the industry. As you see things moving towards mass production. What do you see as something that the start-up Etsy type seller should make to help build out there items?

[@worldskipper02]

I would love to hear y'alls thoughts on dual material prints or using two different 3d printed materials for a product, For instance ABS & TPU etc.

[@mickredfox]

Love all your videos, verry interesting, i dont understand the S mecanisme

[@AndrewDasilvaPLT]

Snap fit where you put a slab in the center of the two c-clamps once it is in place on the opposite side.

[@noxenia]

Can you please explain that deeper. I think this would be very good but i dont quite unterstand how its implemented.

[@ry7hym]

hi Slant, I was wondering, are there specific design considerations for when you want to design tube end caps that go into the tube or profile?

[@fionaodoherty7029]

Once you put it together can you take it apart?

[@spamy6661]

What 3d modeling software was you using in this video please? As always you vids are very informative, thank you.

[@slant3d]

Shapr3D (Use code 'Slant3d' for 10% OFF): www.shapr3d.com/download?

[@Snake75055]

Does anyone know how to make the square peg and slab and slot connector in blender? Im completely new to this.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Hey, I have a question regarding print quality. Please know I appreciate all your videos and am asking this as someone who respects what you do, so I don't mean this to come off as criticism right off the hop! I have noticed the pieces you are using as examples for these videos all look like pretty poor quality prints, (visually) like rough around the edges or with big goopy layer lines... I'm curious if this is just due to using a larger nozzle and catering your print farm to high production speed, or is this just something that shows up on camera more than in person? I recently bought my first 3D printer (bamboo labs P1S) and the parts I've been printing all seem to have tighter tolerances and thinner layers lines, especially if I tweak the setting for variable layer height around curved edges. Again, this is an honest question that is not meant to offend, I was just curious about the look of the parts on camera. Perhaps a subject regarding layer height or nozzle size on print quality vs time taken to print at scale would be interesting also. Thanks for all the excellent videos on 3D printing production!

[@AckzaTV]

Bambu/prusa slicer should add an update where a "connect parts" or "connect objects" lets you connect to objects close together with various clasps and clips like this to choose from

[@MicheleScipioni]

What software are you using for your designs?

[@fattysco2960]

what software do you use for modeling?

[@DaytonR.O]

Awesome

[@silvverskyy4582]

Whats the 3d software your using

[@evertos0505]

Could you share the files that you used so we have some reference? Thanks!

[@MrGTAmodsgerman]

What modeling software is used in that video? Looks interesting. Is it plasticity?

[@donaldjohnson394]

What cad software is being shown in the video

[@seekertosecrets]

3:22 So is this a permanent hold? How do you get that out? 3:28 Oh! Never mind! There it is!

[@DanSlotea]

Square pegs go in square holes. Square corners crack. Use octogonal pegs.

[@fistaszek4148]

Hey cam someone tell me what program (he/you) built it in?

[@slant3d]

Try Shapr3D (Use Code: Slant3d): www.shapr3d.com/download?

[@fistaszek4148]

@@slant3d Thanks!

[@AckzaTV]

Snap fitting should be hollow all the way or with X support that let's you squeeze enough to actually un plug it lol

[@VoxelWorks3D]

What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs and makes a slinkity sound... CONNECTORS

[@brady_bauer2518]

Are you able to design for waterproofness?

[@coughcough5839]

I feel like if there are no tolerances in the square peg my adventurer3 probably couldn't manage the fit, might be a user error, not to do anything with the printer

[@_GRBL]

what do you guys think about using brick layers instead of stacked layers? cnckitchen made a pretty good video on it

[@yellowajah]

Would love to see a video of massive commercial enterprises gaming kickstarter to fund a project that they should be funding themselves. Creality comes to mind. I heard there's a filament manufacturer that did something similar.

[@julus90]

Whats the software he's using

[@PlanckRelic]

Your 'slab' is a mortise and tenon joint with a floating tenon

[@KRGraphicsCG]

Honestly, I just use steel dowel pins before gluing with epoxy

[@gedr7664]

Honestly, I just surround my part with mild steel and TIG weld it

[@zbyskie]

hell yeah@@gedr7664

[@KRGraphicsCG]

@@gedr7664 that would turn PETG into molten stew

[@kevinhernandez-fj7vy]

What software???

[@DaveDRC]

i wonder why orca and bambu slicer dont add these as connectors...

[@BadgerRobot]

you didn't show the S method, not sure how that works better...

[@jr303]

Sweet

[@AckzaTV]

Add a hole in the peg to let air escape bro

[@garydurn7983]

Very well explained - thanks for the info!

[@darkfrei2]

Этот Артемий Лебедев умеет делать 3д печать!

[@teckougeki]

You have to make it easier to register on your site. I can't connect the payment method using two different cards. Would really like to try out the etsy integration but can't even create an account.

[@rustyrapp5673]

Does one of your interns have time to talk to me about “my” [im actually the designer and not the business person…. So “our”] (fledgling) 3d printing business? We’re about to make the move to list our best Etsy product on Amazon…. But any amount of actual discourse would be invaluable to us ❤

[@eduardovazquez6817]

It's called a draft not tapir.

[@uujims]

But many 3d printed plastic creep and lose grip overtime soooooo

[@uujims]

He did say glue sooo

[@arekx]

Offtopic: taking care of the aesthetics of your fingers has a future.

[@eyal_the_goat]

first

[@larrybud]

nobody cares

[@slant3d]

Welcome

[@johnwaynewilliamson]

@slant3d I couldn't get the webform to work, I've emailed multiple times and called multiple times (left voicemails), commented on X, and now here. Been trying to reach you since 2/23/24. Are you not accepting more work right now? quote button in nav broken, mailto in footer on about page broken.. tin can and string?