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EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In a broader picture: See it as a demonstration of what all those nice tools in the CAD package can do. In this application with a little bit of thought could come up with a similar or better solution but for an I don’t care design approach the output is already good. A proper design approach would be putting thought in in where to place the contact surfaces relative to the spool and then run this software or go a step further and allow a different software to also change that parameter. Keep in mind those simulations are computationally expensive. Complex/advanced questions might take days to solve while a simple question like this is less than 1 minute.

The load was in the circle/groove facing down.

The other constrain was the faces contacting the 3030 extrusion being fixed and a keep-out zone was defined around those to ensure no material there was removed.

Otherwise, it was just a flat slab as shape.

What at first surprised me was how this part works: There is a point defined by the lowest/left triangle (tension & compression) on which all the weight rests. The remaining structure is is a cross beam (top mounting point to spool) to support it (tension) and the structure on which the spool rests (compression).

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