Martinm
Member
Hi Guys,
I just wanted to show you a fun project I did with Alibre recently. The job was to design a machine that spews out one walnut per day. So I designed a walnut dispensing mechanism and added a one day timer to the drive.
The glass was home to some pickles before and I had to guess the thread pitch.
The bottom is made from walnut wood (I had this turned by a pro - this is beyond my capabilities). Turned out beautifully!
Knob is 1.4305 and if you look closely you see that I set the facing tool a small bit too low on the lathe.
Now here's the feed mechanism:
A small DC gear motor drives two counter-rotating foam squares. Gears are made using the Alibre gear generator (@Alibre: Thanks!!!) and printed from PLA. The timer PCBA was designed using KiCad, which (being free software) absolutely amazed me.
As you might imagine, quite a few hours of Alibre time went into this:
Printed on my Prusa MK3S in PLA.
Regards, Martin
I just wanted to show you a fun project I did with Alibre recently. The job was to design a machine that spews out one walnut per day. So I designed a walnut dispensing mechanism and added a one day timer to the drive.
The glass was home to some pickles before and I had to guess the thread pitch.
The bottom is made from walnut wood (I had this turned by a pro - this is beyond my capabilities). Turned out beautifully!
Knob is 1.4305 and if you look closely you see that I set the facing tool a small bit too low on the lathe.
Now here's the feed mechanism:
A small DC gear motor drives two counter-rotating foam squares. Gears are made using the Alibre gear generator (@Alibre: Thanks!!!) and printed from PLA. The timer PCBA was designed using KiCad, which (being free software) absolutely amazed me.
As you might imagine, quite a few hours of Alibre time went into this:
Printed on my Prusa MK3S in PLA.
Regards, Martin
