{"id":770,"date":"2022-07-31T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/?p=770"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:37:27","slug":"tube-cap-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Tube cap designer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tube cap and roller axle factory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this code you can create tube caps and roller axles of various sizes, number of edges and shapes, based on parameters you may change. CAD or programming knowlege is not necessary. The output can be 3D STL files you can send to a 3D printer. To be able to work with the code, you need to install OpenScad, which is Open source software you can use for free: <a href=\"https:\/\/openscad.org\">https:\/\/openscad.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many parameters are taken as percentage values to<br>ease the configuration. So not too much attention needs to be taken to<br>parametrize the parts. In most cases the resulting parts are still sensful if<br>the obvious size relations remain reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The designer is available on Thingiverse: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:4831085\">https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:4831085<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatively you may download the OpenScad Code here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d8065820-0674-4fec-ab19-e1a607f3d801\" href=\"https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tubecap3.zip\">tubecap3.zip<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tubecap3.zip\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d8065820-0674-4fec-ab19-e1a607f3d801\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Load the json file to see the existing examples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recommed to use the OpenScad Customizer to set up your Thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tipp: If the meander type expanding ring (tenon) is too weak and breaks, you may select the oneslot option get around this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capsred-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capsred-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capsred-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capsred-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capsred-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/bechele.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/capsred.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tube cap and roller axle factory With this code you can create tube caps and roller axles of various sizes, number of edges and shapes,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-household"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bechele.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}