How to design 3D Printable Hinges - Make moving parts!

Totally useless re “how to make” the hinges

This video was subconsciously sponsored by white monster energy drink 😎 The best kind of course 😎. Great video!

"Living hinge" is also known as compliant mechanism. It's how thrusters are controller and some clutches work

Hey, thanks for the video. Do you have any tips on how to make a hinge but with tightened screw.. for example to promote tilting.. like a laptop screen.. so that can be fixed to a definite angle.

cool hinges to inspire from are lego hinges

If you are going to add hardware, rather then standard screws might I suggest shoulder screws Yes they cost a bit more but the bearing surface is now a smooth shaft rather then threads.

I am building a part that unfolds and then can be rotated to lock in place?
I have the anycubic i3 mega X And I run Curax5.3

What size nozzle are you using for the pin hinge?

Vch aoftware u r using to design ...

Pls help for the pin hinge how do I increase the seperation distance

I made a split cell for a blind friend of mine. I encountered an issue with my hinge not being able to fully rotate 360 degrees, so I actually based its hinge off of a college bound notebook , so it’s a spiral bound braille Cell, to help her learn braille!

This will be useful bc I’m going to try to make an anamatronic

Fastner is not cheating. Its the Best solution.

Thank you! 🤗

Hello, I would like to ask if using pla as printing material for hinge, required to enable "support feature" for "everywhere" especially for the gap betweeen hinge?

Its crazy this video is 5 years old and still topping searches, you should do updates on these videos about special case scenarios from design aspects.

Anyone know how to do hinges like this that you can print vertically? I want the faces of the thing I'm printing to look better so I want to stand it up, but can't figure out a way to make a hinge that will print right unless I lay it down.

What about ball and socket joints

Well at 65 I was seriously thinking of getting a upper end hobbies 3D printer that is user friendly easy to set up and able to do large-ish prints, like masks, helmets etc. I’d like it to be able to take different filaments?, I’m looking at a cost range no greater than $1,500 USD. all advice welcome. hopefully enclosed case. Thanks. Enjoy your channel and looking forward to building up my knowledge here on 3D printing.

I needed this. SO thankful.

Please help me. Speaking about revolution joint with pin (first example). How do you place your model on the slider? Pin vertical or horizontal? There will be tollerances both on diameters and on space between joint faces...therefore In both solutions printer is going to come across a slice in which material has to be put in place up on a empty space... in case of you enable creation of supports are they not going to be fused together? If you do not allow support thin space like 0.3mm won't be marged together? helpppp... horizontal or vertical? What else?

I hate those material hinges. For decades I have curse those thing falling apart. One of the main reasons I got a 3-D printer was so I could make containers with proper hinges.

Sorry maybe I have overheard that, but do you print these hindges (espeacially the first one) with or without support?

I find the key thing is to stay flexible with your approach

I've used PLA for living hinges and it worked very well for prototyping with no failures. From memory I think it was "Infinity 3D" branded PLA. Orientation is crucial to get good results

Bro put that chest hair away

This gave me an idea about maybe I can print with resin a doll with some joints. I can already see that I will have to make many attemps and change settings, and modify models, or maybe gets too tight or too loose but I want to give it a try.

Thank you , just started my 3D printing journey... 5 years after this video was released, but still very applicable now!

Angus, question for you. I have no issue designing parts for print in place. The issue I have is getting that file into the slicer and then printing it.

When I took a file which I created to be a print in place file.. it is clearly 3 separate pieces that are joined together with clearances. When I get the STL file and put it in my slicer it prints them in such a way as to make them one solid price.

How do I fix this?

Thanks

has anyone told u how cute u are

Hello there.

Thanks for the video. After dozens of videos, this is the first one that explains how moving parts work.
In fact, I'm still looking for a full tutorial (in Blender if possible) on how to design these kind of pieces, but now, at least, I've got an idea on how to do this.

Thanks & greets from Argentina.
Marcelo Miguel Bazan.

What is wrong with the sound on this video?

Excellent advice 🙌🥇

ok you saved me a bit of a headache because i was looking to redesign a hinge that just kept fusing together, thank you

Great video.

Good video on examples of different types of 3printable hinges and moving parts. Unfortunately (and this is the 1st complaint I have ever had with your video/tutorials). The title says: “How to design…..” But there was NO design just examples.

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You look like an anime character + a metalcore singer lol

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May i know your computer spec run smoothly fusion 360?

nothing about how to really print hinges. just blablabla. how to print with ABS?

I really am interested, in use of three d printed parts for the subject of sculptures for artistic use. Is there a type of filiment that would be the best fit for something like, outside art work, like lawn gnomes ?

Angus how about hinges for resin printers? :)

I was waiting for you to get on with how to design the hinges, but you never completed the contract implied in the title of your video.

But how do you print the pin in-between without the print failing or the two pieces getting stuck

Clasp made from rubber may be designed to fit over a finger up and over the knuckle to hold it in place and in effect provide a cast for immobilization of the joint...

this is a video i never asked for but needed, thnx mate.

There's a project I want to see built that involves 2 very large super magnets placed over each other kept in just a long enough tube whereas those can pull at each other furthest away... with quite a slit beneath the top magnet where... maybe a sheet of aluminum can always slide in between them. I want to see how much electric power it will generate for the magnet to both rise and fall... and what would be the least amount of energy it takes to block that magnetic field with a sheet.