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Design Review Request: What can I do better?
ZimCube
Member Posts: 3 ✭
I have been using OnShape as a hobbyist, mostly for 3D printing, for just over a year now and I'm getting more comfortable with what it can do. I'm happy with the outcome of my latest item, but I'd really appreciate a review of how I've gone about it and suggestions for what I could do better. I have some specific questions listed below but would value any feedback.
The Document - Plugs and HDMI Holder - What I want is something that I can wrap a 6ft HDMI cable around and push 2 uk plugs into it for travel. I'll upload a pic when it finishes printing.
Feedback on trimming the cable pathFor the cable path, I create a surface for the main body and a helix inside it. I then sweep a surface following the helix, did an intersection curve, then swept a circle along that curve. After my first print the bits left over were too sharp for my liking, so I wanted to trim them down. To do this I offset the main surface in by 0.6 mm, and then added a brim (border? flange?) with a ruled surface
Later on, this let me trim what I wanted and got me the desired outcome. It feels a bit klunky having this extra surface hang around for half the design and I wasn't sure what to call it. Any advice
Feedback on Cutout Ideas - Design the cutout, do a subtractIf you look at the Plug Cutouts, you'll see I designed a blank for Powersupply Plug and Duracell Plug. I then bring those into the main part, put them in place and do a boolean subtract. I then apply chamfers after. My reasoning here is that I feel more comfortable building up a single complicated part and then doing a simple subtract in my main part studio.
Is this a good idea or bad idea?
Feedback on Query VariablesFor chamfering the plug cutouts I created a query variable that intersects the edges of the main body with the edges created by the boolean subtractions. This took a while to figure out but I kind of like it. Any better ways of selecting the "entrance" edges of 2 features?
Feedback on cable channelsThese are the cutouts on the top and bottom so the cable can route through. I don't like how jagged and rough they are. Is there a better way of cutting them out and rounding them off?