Parametric ball joint

By UltiErik

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Parametric ball joint

By UltiErik

140
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Parametric ball joint

By UltiErik

at 2024-05-03
I saw Makerblock's topic about the ball joint, I thought openSCAD was suitable and advised it, but thought I'd give it a try myself. This is a very quick hack, but it can be easily modified since it's just code.In OpenSCAD, you can choose to see an animation of the ball joint in action. Do this by uncommeting "demo();" and commenting "print();". To print it, choose the latter, press F6 and export to STL.For a very cool implementation of this 'part' used in a camera mount, see thingiverse.com/thing:2631InstructionsModify it with the following parameters:size=10; // size of the ball jointjoint_spacing =0.5; // some space between them?joint_thickness = 2; // thickness of the armsjoint_arms = 5; // how many arms do you want?arm_width = 10; // actually: how much is removed from the arms Larger values will remove moreDerived fromhttps://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1967

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UltiErik
UltiErik
over 10 years
Hi J! Yes, OpenSCAD animation is pretty cool :) @FF bug: I've added the bug to the list of things to fix. I'll ask if I'd like you to help us reproduce it.
JTO
JTO
over 10 years
Nice! I set joint_arms to 10 with arm_width=3 and give it a try I didn't know about animation feature in OpenSCAD works great :)

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