123D Design: Bevel Gear
Taper, tweak, sketch on an angled box and reorient the Move tool axes to make a bevel gear.
Category Archives: Software
123D Design: Reorient the Movie Axes
Change the Move axes’ orientation so you can move items parallel to angled surfaces.
SketchUp: How to Mirror a Model
Copy and mirror a model with Scale and Flip Along. Here’s the video in which the model was cut in half:
SketchUp: Slice a Model in Half for 3D Printing
With the Create Group from Slice and Explode functions, slice a large model in parts so they can be 3D printed separately. HHow to copy and mirror the sliced model is here:
123D Design: Tapered Ring for Machining
Model a tapered, chamfered ring for 3D printing or CNC fabrication.
123D Design and Meshmixer: Sun Wall Sculpture with a Face!
Make a Southwest-style wall sculpture with Spline, Loft, Circular Pattern, Combine/Merge, and a face stencil applied in Meshmixer.
123D Design: Plate with Holes
Mirror, Sketch Fillet, Polyline, Primitive Circle, Sketch Bucket Circle, and work planes all explained.
123D Design: Curved Rocker Arm
Sketch and model a curved rocker arm with the sketch fillet, 3-point arc, mirror, offset and combine/intersect tools.
123D Meshmixer: Pattern Tool
Make a Yoda head pencil holder with a Thingiverse .stl file, Plane Cut and the Pattern tool.
123D Design & Meshmixer: Bunny Coin Bank
Make a coin bank out of the Stanford Bunny with Make Solid and Hollow in Meshmixer, and then Boolean Subtract in Design.