Modeling a Small 3D Printable Hinge in Fusion 360
Just me stumbling through modeling a hinge I'll print and use to make a plexi door over the paints I store in my airbrush booth, to prevent them from getting blasted by overspray. The one half is so long to make getting the correct spacing from the side nice and easy.
Lots of clearance in it so any tolerance variation in the 3D printer used won't be an issue. I try to make dimensions multiples of the extrusion width on my printers. In this design I stuck to multiples of 1.5mm, so it should print nicely on either of my printers, which are .5 and .75mm extrusion widths. If a part is say 3mm wide, then the printer with .75mm extrusion can do exactly 4 passes to make it, rather than try to do 4 and then one goofy pass at a lower flow rate to make a 3.5mm wide part. Modifying flow rate for funky sizes, in my experience, complicates the gcode, is often inconsistent and can lead to lower quality, weaker parts. Especially on ones like this that will print solid.
Video is sped up 1.5x so total time to model was about 8 minutes. It helps that I've memorized all the necessary diameters for the hardware I use so I don't need to do any measuring besides the clearance for the paints, and thickness of the plexi.
