These are Acrylic Pulleys I made with lighrburn and cut with a 40W laser. no other cad system was used. I have designed the actual Tumbler using Fusion360 and cut with lightburn but i needed bigger and interchangeable pulleys so i made these in lightburn cause there is no better way to get tips and to learn tricks. the more you use a software the more you understand it and work faster (and wish for some simple cad tools to make our LB lives a bit easier and more intuitive).
I started by nesting all parts using DeepNest but ended up nesting it by myself cause i felt like i needed better solution to suit my needs - tighter, better fit to my scraps collected from factory bins, and grouped these cause i cut, test, then continue cutting.
I Have two of those alongside with my laser cutter. Just finished first run of my DIY 3D printed Shaker made completely from scratch out of what i had in hand at home: 3D printer’s spare parts and 20mm aluminum broom’s handle tube. this is stage one. In next step I will order in a NEMA23 (what you see is nema17 which is not powerful enough for the load i want it to handle) and a TFT screen so i can use my old printer controller to run pre-configured gcode macros for specific shake profiles like speeds, accelerations, timers, etc…
So far looking really good.
Gears are indeed cool. If you’ll look closely i have reinforced it with a laser cut acrylic flat bottom for making sure the connecting rod pin wont bent it (and if you look even closer you will see I have lasered recessed drill holes for the bolts nuts - so cool) and also for having it rotate on another acrylic rim bolted to the wood base for as friction-less operation as possible. laser cutters and 3D printers goes together like… Arts & Crafts.
