Hi all,
Just thought I'd share this recent project to design a custom tool, in this case a wrench for optical applications.
Total project time was about a day, including three stages of prototyping and tool development, and the tool itself is composite plastic with brass and steel inserts. It's intended for assembly and disassembly of electro-optical components.
This is mostly designed with extruded circles, added and subtracted, with some loft to create conical areas and there's heavy use of the fillet function. The circular indents, intended to provide finger-grips, are created through a simple cylinder with circular patterns.
A lot of use of CCS ( Custom Co-ordinate System ) made installing other panels and faces quite easy.
It's probably a good example of what a moderate beginner can achieve quickly with the application after just a few weeks of semi-regular use.
Regards
David
Hello David
Like it ...a video of you making this would be useful!
Any luck with the videos yet?
Pete
Hi Pete,
I tried making a video, but it came out at around 300 Mbytes for something simple - a little too large for Youtube. And that was for something simple like that example connector I drew earlier.
I need to find a better screen capture application I think. Any suggestions?
Hello David,
Corel VideoStudio Pro X6 does include a Screen recording functionality. Besides that it's a complete video editing solution so you can create your videos based on the raw screen recordings with it.
Uploading your final video to YouTube is also done easily with the publishing tools included.
You can try it out for free - take a look at www.corel.com/videostudio .
Best regards,Klaus.
Thanks Klaus, VideoStudio Pro X6 is actually pretty easy to use and creates very compact videos.
OK, here's the first. This shows how the shaping was applied to the larger ring to create a grippy surface, by simply repeating a 3D pattern around an existing object.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO23kjSVTTI
- Using Pattern 3D.
I'll demonstrate the other functions I used to create individual sections also.
David.
David,
Your video requires log in?