I just ordered an Ender 3v2 and am having a hard time finding the right tutorials. The main purpose of getting into 3D printing is to make custom vacuum attachments for my “shop”. Can anyone help?? I’m worried autodesk fusion might be the better option but I’d prefer to stick with sketchup

[image] eeeks222: I feel like making a YT tutorial specifically for making custom shop vac fittings in 3D printing would resonate very well with the wood working community that uses SketchUp. Not sure when it will be published but I have a blog post in the queue for the Design. Click. Build. …

I think you’ll find the reason there aren’t that many tutorials specific to 3d printing is that once you learn the basics of the software you don’t need specific 3d printing tutorials.

Here’s a simple right angle with different pipe diameters, I have made no effort to do anything the right size here, just a simple demo of the process. No fancy tools needed. [Simple bend]

Box is on the money. Do the modelling - which for this purpose is uncomplicated in SU compared to Fusion - and treat the printing is a separate issue. Simply make sure you fulfill the fundamentals described by Dave and it will work.

So one question I have from that video you did is how do you know what size you are scaling to? I tried something similar but I couldn’t figure out how to reduce it 1/8". I have no idea how to convert the scale size to inches… I’ve always used the free version and don’t have great experience with c…

That was a lot of help! Thanks again for everything! I had no idea how active and great this forum community is! Lol about anytime I hit the forums they’re dead with no activity in the last 7 years.

[image] eeeks222: I have no idea how to convert the scale size to inches When using the scale tool you can type in exact sizes by adding the unit.

really?? I tried that but it wouldn’t let me type anything. so if im trying to reduce it 1/8" do I just type “-1/8”? I couldn’t get that to work.

Have you done any of the tutorial in the SketchUp Campus

Oh I didn’t know they had that. Thanks for the help

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Here’s a link to scaling.

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