How to make a 3D model of a poker chip tray

[WillAdams]

Recently, I tried to walk a customer through how to make a tray for poker chips like to:

at:

Trying to create a slope profile, whats the easiest way

I’m trying to create a rectangle with a slope on it. Probably 5-10 degrees. Pro used to do this easily with the “Angle” option, but now I only get a pyramid when using angle. Anyone have some good tips?

community.carbide3d.com

(it took a while to arrive at an understanding of where the slope was)

and ultimately, I worked up a step-by-step example of doing it in BlockSCAD:

Poker Tray | BlocksCAD

www.blockscad3d.com

Rather than a video, could someone walk through step-by-step how to do this in Atom3D here on the forums with screen grabs?

 

[HaroldL]

Not done with Atom3D but only used tools that should be available in Atom per the image on Alibre's web page.

So here are the steps I would take to create the chip tray. I gleaned the dimensions from your other forum post.

Starting the sketch for the main block at 0,0,0:

 

[Joseph_L]

Hi Will,

Harold provided a great answer. Would you prefer to have a new video still, or was the above answer everything you needed?

 

[WillAdams]

Thanks! I'm good! Looking forward to dropping my Windows machine in my docking station at my desk this weekend and trying it out!