McMaster is awesome for files

Definitely! I learned this a while back from an AVE video and it has been very helpful

mcmaster parts are not accurate especially there gears

I use them almost daily .😀

Exactly!!! If you have the skills you could bang together all the parts required to design a CNC machine in a couple of hours! The gears are very useful... but only if you know how to choose correct matching gears 😆

Cheers!

Agreed completely! Angus@MakersMuse, TeachingTech, CNCKitchen, ThomasSanlander…… The quality of the content and the guy’s at the center of it, just incredible teachers and not only their designs, but the content, video, lighting, damn all of it… Humbling. An incredible amount of work. THANK YOU ANGUS! Edited to add: Joining your community Angus! Great Idea! Looking forward to being a part of it!

Neat! Makes sense if they want people to design around their products

This is awesome.

I'm all for supporting creators but yeah, keeping tabs on multiple patreons is a bit challenging! I much prefer buying models as required. Might do a supplementary video to this on how I handle paid models with gumroad etc.

I just don't even bother with Cults, images take waaaaaaay too long to load. It's just not worth the time.

Won’t be bloated with ads if you use and adblocker like everyone else

@@aminfozdar or you could be like thingiverse and block downloads if you have an adblocker haha

cults is apparently hosted on a 56K line or something of that sort, it's ridiculous how slow the site is.

Ah nice! very handy.

Thanks mate! Good one! Cheers, Mick 🇦🇺

I've always wanted to try that!

Did you see this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbt1Zt2I08DGhKM.html I just wish I had the space for it 😞

Ah awesome!

Thanks for watching!

Exactly the comment I wanted to make. I really like Grabcad

neat! McMaster used to block Aussies from ordering or even browsing the site, but maybe that's changed...

@@MakersMuse I use their step files for all kinds of fasteners. Hopefully you can as well

it's the OG haha

Oh yeah! Very handy

Is slicer a cad package? Did you replace Adsk Inventor with it? Cheers, Mick 🇦🇺

The step file is solid part model, in opposition to STL or 3mf which are surface files. Solid parts are heavier in size because they contain much more information which are used by CAD/CAM/CAE programs.

@@mil3k I think that's entirely the point. It's far easier to use a STEP file to modify in CAD than an STL. I'm lucky enough to have access to very expensive, high end CAD through my job but the rigmarole required to make an STL useable means I generally opt for remodelling from scratch. Having a STEP would be a massive time-saver.

@@jezward7227 I see a lack of understanding different types and purposes of 3d models. STL was created to describe the surface of model and then transfer it to the printer. STEP was created to allow transfer solid based models between different CAD software. In other words STL for artists STEP for engineers. With modern technology both of these worlds interchange. For example car chassis, if you compare the shape of modern car with a car from 80s or 90s. They are rounder, more aerodynamic, spacious inside. All of that is possible due to surface modelling. But these surfaces were not possible to manufacture in the past except aerospace industry, and cost of tooling was humongous. With the raise of multiaxis CNC machines, rapid prototyping and 3d printing tooling for complicated surfaces can be manufactured for the fraction of old tools.

@@mil3k I completely understand the difference between the two file types and their intended uses. If all I ever wanted to do was print objects people had shared, then STL would be fine, but 90% of the time I want to make modifications and that's when a STEP would be more useful, for reasons you have described perfectly in both your posts. Your potted history of improvements in CAD/CAM technologies is interesting but tangential.

It's true, I design the majority of my prints myself for my various projects. However sometimes it's nice to just go find a useful trinket or model without reinventing the wheel!

Usually yeggi unless it's mechanical design, then it's grabcad.

You mean like McMaster Carr? They have a fastener and mounting search. If you mean something that tells YOU that you need a hook to hang your clothes on, well that just requires some level of intelligence to determine (also relative position is relative, that's almost in no calculations unless you're mounting to a structure and that's not really even position so much as it is mounting dimensions anyways).

@@jakegarrett8109 A coat hanger is something that is easier to find with plain language search, compared to a purely geometric constraints like "a backet to hold two pipes perpendicularly" etc. I haven't seen McMaster Carr. I guess they figured they need to solve the same problem, but their product is different. Even if they have 3d models, adapting them for 3d printing will save me only a part of effort.

@@killymxi Oh lol, for a second I thought you were referring to the 3d printed coat hangers (coat hangers in the US are a 10 year federal prison sentence, just it by itself is considered a machine pewpew), then I saw you were referring to the coat hook I mentioned. Caught me off-guard for a second, haha! They do sell all sorts of things like pipe mounting solutions (it may be under their janitorial solutions), but you can type things like M3 screw, or bearing (or thrust bearing, or conical bearing, or bushing), or springs and sort by length or diameter or spring constant, or coil gauge or material etc, and they do sell pipe brackets and hanger devices for holding the pipes from either a ceiling or wall. Its fairly plain text, but limit to keywords so you'd say "pipe bracket" (and really perpendicular might be assigning a solution further than the real requirement, because that requirement might be solved with 2 pipe mounts and you orient them how you want). Sounds like you just want to have an AI engineer your solutions, but I don't think AI is quite there yet (I play with AI some, its quite impressive sometimes, but its not going to do complete engineering solutions like that yet).

@@jakegarrett8109 English is not my first language. I think we need a language that can become a base for 3d models classification and search. A significant portion of practical 3d printing projects are some kind of containers or mounting solutions. People solve the same abstract problems in different contexts, but at best they just use their problem domain to describe the model, so there is no way to retain what is common between their models. In somewhat different but related point of view, models are designed to match certain physical interfaces but we don't have a generic enough way to describe those so it could be used by a wide audience and in a variety of ways (including the search).

I've only started to play with that feature, very handy and a great tip cheers!

@@MakersMuse I use it mainly to place screws and bolts for later on.