William

Cross-section view of an L-shaped 3D CAD part. The cut faces are shown with pink hatching, revealing internal geometry. At the top is a horizontal section containing two angled, sawtooth-profile internal features on opposing sides of a central vertical cylindrical bore. The part transitions downward into a vertical leg that ends in a horizontal base. The underside of the base shows a diamond-patterned surface. The exterior faces are solid gray with rounded and filleted edges.

Not wanting to manually model threads for the thousandth time for this one stupid little clamp bracket lead to several four hours that maybe saves me 45 minutes over the next year. This is good and logical.

It's still fairly cumbersome and Fusion will kill your custom profiles on every update unless you use ThreadKeeper to hopefully prevent it, but it sure as hell beats the manual thread modeling for simple stuff.

It's unbelievably stupid that #Fusion360 does not have a built in arbitrary thread tool. But I learned tonight that they do support thread profiles. Badly, but whatever. After a few hours I made a simple little thing that spits out an arbitrary xml thread profile you need. #3DPrinting

Sorry I we didn't get to grab a cup of coffee when my husband and I were passing through your neck of the woods on the way to the in-laws. I did wave at your exit though, hoping you'd at least receive the vibes.

You left me a nice voicemail in appreciation and in the fog of holiday war I totally forgot to reply! Glad you liked them! I made them from scratch.

A stack of chocolate bars covered in gold sprinkles. Two square pieces in the foreground are cut open, clearly displaying interior layers of shortbread cookie, caramel, and chocolate.

top-down view of several rectangular chocolate treats covered in gold sprinkles, arranged in a row on a patterned, end-grain wooden cutting board.

A close-up of chocolate bars topped with gold sprinkles resting on a cutting board. One bar is cut open to reveal layers of biscuit and caramel. Two snowman ornaments and a holiday card stand in the background.

An open gift box sits on a wooden table, revealing crinkle paper, treats, and a QR code on the inner lid. To the left is a "Happy Holidays" card featuring a dog in a wreath, and two snowman ornaments sit nearby.

I just realized I never posted anything about the results of my misadventures in nougat. Some of you got them in the mail this year, and I hope you enjoyed them because it was all very stupid. Cookie > Caramel > Nougat. #baking

I just realized that at some point MakerWorld started supporting parametric customization for Fusion360 models, which eliminates my only bottleneck in the OpenPegboard project. It's time to pound sand, Skadis! #3Dprinting

I, too, am prepared.

A while back I was looking into the feasibility of this via a custom feed with a classification model middleman—I’ve forgotten the correct terminology for all this stuff now. Long story short though, it’s technically plausible right now. I had started to tinker with it but got distracted.

A black and tan dog in a red plaid bandana stands in profile on a wide, rippled beach at low tide, looking off to the side with the ocean and sky stretching into the distance.

A black and tan dog wearing a red plaid bandana runs toward the camera across a flat, wet beach at low tide, ears lifted by motion and paws reflected in the shallow water.

A black and tan dog in a red plaid bandana stands alert on rippled wet sand at low tide, captured in black and white with the ocean softly blurred in the background.

A medium-sized black and tan dog wearing a red plaid bandana sits calmly in shallow tidal water on a wide beach, reflected in the wet sand beneath a pale blue sky.

Winter beach day for Bailey in SC. #dogsofbluesky

It's not so much that they're hard to make, they're just hard to make durably because of the surface area on the mount ridges. But I'd say 6000km pretty much proves its not a problem!

Well done! I feel like this is perfectly at the nexus of high useless crap potential and unique circumstance. Kind of like a free zipper tote from a trade show that becomes the place where you keep toiletries for 15 years.

6000km?! 👏👏👏

Sometimes I think the designer at GoPro, or whoever was designing that mount interface at the time, was cackling, deliberately making something they knew would be challenging to 3D print durably. But here is Paul, spitting in the face of the gods.

First of all, looks clean! Second of all, I don't know what a packout is. Third of all, since I'm nothing if not pedantic, how do you know if this is useless crap if you haven't gotten to use it for realsies yet!? Follow up required.

A black, 3D-printed scoop held in a hand, featuring visible horizontal layer lines and a custom, slightly tapered shape. The interior of the scoop is coated with white, granular ice residue.

the black 3D-printed scoop is shown in action. A hand holds the handle, tilting the scoop downward to pour a batch of crescent-shaped ice cubes into a stainless steel water bottle. The scoop’s tapered, funnel-like front design is positioned over the bottle's opening, effectively guiding the ice inside without spilling.

3D printing can result in a lot of useless crap.

Show me your favorite prints that have proven to not be useless crap! I’ll go first.

I designed this scoop to make it easier to get ice into my hydroflask. I’ve used it every day for years and it lives in my freezer. #3Dprinting

I suspect we’ll see more bundling of tools into suits at a lower cost. Corporate environments will have less tolerance for nickel and dimed features at $19/month. Tool sets just need to be cheaper than paying an in house person to build and maintain everything themselves + security concerns.

I think it’s still a really long ways away from an average person asking for what they need and the system giving it back to them functional, durable and iterable. The average person doesn’t really even know how to ask for what they need.

I think it’ll change the landscape more in pressure on price as alternatives crop up. I’ve coded my way out of at least one expensive subscription. But you still need to be good at project management and at least get the theory of the architecture you’re building or else it’ll be fragile as hell.

Maybe part of my problem is that I’m trying to run in old Kleenex boxes. What shoes do you recommend?

in my experience so far, unless there are some real unusual curves involved, yeah, measure, draft, iterate in pla until it fits.

But, I also just recently purchased a scan bridge second hand so we’ll see if part of the problem was being stuck tethered by a wire to a laptop. Stay tuned.

There’s also a fairly massive workflow gap between getting a scan and having working CAD design. A gap filled with so much tedium that under many circumstances it’s probably easier to just take a bunch of reference photos and make a lot of careful caliper measurements.

The main thing I have learned is that 3D scanning is very much a hobby in its own right and it’s incredibly tedious and the process opinionated.

I’ve increasingly come to believe that modern tech is designed to be set up with the simplest possible defaults and will punish anyone attempting to stray from them. It’s hard not to think the tech wants me to be stupid.

How do your knees though?? When I get beyond about 2.5 miles problems start to cascade through my body. I can religiously get about 24 miles a month, but never more than about 2 miles at a time and that sucks cause I hardly ever feel better than I do when I’m running. Give me your body!

I would suggest getting yourself a husband who will bring you multiple consecutive days of pizza when you get sick, except I think there was only one and I got him. Sorry

Did I miss something? Did you jump to Bambu, or have you always had a mix of machines and I’m just catching up now?

Take a deep breath. Do you feel that? That sensation is called "now", and it's the only real thing you actually have. Stop spending so much energy on things before and after now.

My sister left a lunchables in my fridge. I’ve never had a lunchables. It’s now 2:30am, I’ve been cooking for the last 12 hours, and I’m now eating a lunchables in my bed. I used to think they were stupid. But I get it now. I get lunchables.

I mean it’s basically the same business model as every tech company today. 🤷‍♂️