How to design slots of different sizes/depths/widths in solid piece?

frank_paynter

FFCP2 Tool Holder | Part Studio 1

I'm trying to 'simplify' the design of a tool holder for my 3D printer setup. It's just a tilted block of plastic with slots for a spatula, a pair of needle-nosed pliers, and a side-cutter. The attached photo shows the original design, but I want to redesign it so the block is tilted up about 20deg, and I want to remove the central raised portion. Since all three slots have different widths, depths and thicknesses, I came up with a multiple plane design to accommodate this. I first created the sketch & extrusion for the spatula, and this worked OK. However, when I created the sketch/extrusion for the pliers with just the plier cutout in the sketch, the extrusion overwrote the spatula slot where the two overlapped. So, I added the spatula cutout to the pliers sketch, thinking that would solve the problem, but not only did it NOT solve the problem, it created a weird result.

Clearly I'm going about this all wrong, despite my innate creativity and brilliance 😉. Any help would be appreciated.

TIA,

Frank

robert_scott_jr_

Hey Frank. Here's one way. - Scotty

robert_scott_jr_

Hey Frank. Here's one way. - Scotty

glen_dewsbury

I like what Scotty has done, Much cleaner,

You asked also about angling the block up a few degrees. Draft or move face will do this quite simply.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ce65edf01e0ac35ba5ead9fa/w/e5219032dfdc2ae0091d5a76/e/c85d40461ba465fc1b56cab4

frank_paynter

Thanks for the input. Yeah, that's what I came up with as well, after sleeping on it last night. A small complication is that I want the spatula (wide & thin) hole to be slightly slanted w/r/t the top surface, so I think I'll need to create a sloped auxiliary plane for that one.

MDesign

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/112451#Comment_112451

Don’t need to create a plane. Just move those features after the slope operation and redefine them to use that new slope as the sketch plane