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Electrical Box Twist Model

MakerBobDesigns avatarMakerBobDesigns

March 13, 2013

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This is my second attempt at understanding the operations in OpenSCAD.
I made a model of a 4" square electrical box with a raised plaster ring in AutoCAD and then exported to an STL. I couldn't get emmett's heart gears file to work, so I basically destroyed the original cubeGears3 code http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:10483 until it didn't work either. I rebuilt it enough to get the result I was looking for. I made both the Gear1 and Gear2 module accept x and z rotation inputs (1 or 2), and then added some rotation code inside those modules, the twogears module, and the assembly module to make them behave for a non cube object. I added an object module that loads a custom stl file and orients it for gear mashup.

I am still not clear on the way the relationship between the overall model, the center and pins is determined. I cheated and just tweaked the center cube until it looked like I wanted, and then I measured the necessary pin length and used the Pins library to make one. I have not posted this revised code, because I don't really feel that it is any way an improvement over the original. I may post it if requested, or if I can work some of the remaining bugs out.
The center stl has emmett's original slits, but I reoriented it in such a way to make them not work as originally intended. It is OK, because it cleans up easily, and I made the center pins captured anyway.

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