New Options for cutting and folding leather straps

[Rahere]

Not quite, there's a video on a rolled handle thread on here, but you get the drift.

[jimi]

10 hours ago, RockyAussie said:

Are you happy with the feed in?

Yes the feed in seems like no problem, it gets a bottle neck with the final hole being smaller. I have done 3 at the moment. The first one slipped so i had to print a larger wheel, also the original wheel marked the leather a lot the later less. I used flexi filament to make the wheel and worked until i got in tighter with a larger wheel then the grub screw holding it on ends up in the rubber and strips the hole sideways so a PETG is on now and seems to be doing ok. The one i have for the strap is the same apart from two inner ramps, one each side until the final end slit. I am not so good with Autocad so that is why the ones i have done are not tapered like the ones you have done. The ideal one i was thinking of trying would be adjustable, one each side and able to slide in and out to accommodate the width of strap, that could possibly work with the piping also, but not sure. I will try and get one together, that way hopefully there is no need to print one for each size.

[jimi]

[RockyAussie]

On 7/8/2021 at 10:16 PM, jimi said:

I am not so good with Autocad so that is why the ones i have done are not tapered like the ones you have done.

Hi @jimi, sorry for my late reply, I've been way too busy. The command you need to get the hang of is the loft command. Basically it is a fancy extrude. In simple explanation ...do a circle or any closed polygon shape on the plan base level. I always take a line out from the middle and go wide past the edge and make it another colour so it is easy to see. Go to front view then draw a line up to the height of your next level and again if you have 3 tiers in mind, do this out on the far side. Back to the plan view and do a smaller or larger oval or square as long as it is a closed polygon then Move the shape up to the level you want and repeat the process if you want 3 levels. If you are wanting this to say have 2mm walls then offset 2 mm on these shapes. Hit the loft command and select the base shape then the next level and then the next level then hit enter twice. Magic. You can also go to the top level first and down to the mid level and get a totally different solid shape. Have fun and check this video out - 

 

[jimi]

Thanks Brian, I did try this out a couple of weeks back with the loft command for the folder but i was obviously doing something wrong because when i hit the command nothing happened  so i will give it another try before i   and good to hear you are still busy, Keep on truckin!