Yoyo CAD & Prototyping Adventures

can you inform me a 14 years old teen how to get it pls

can i put my yoyo cad in the onshape without needing to do it all over again? And does it have those cool visualizers that you can texture the yoyo design and all?

Free for students as long as you prove that you are indeed a student, will stay active as long as you can. Through middle/high/college. Google Autodesk Student Edition, it’s easy dude. I’m old and use other software but I know Autodesk stuff is simple, strong, and easy to use. YouTube tutorials are abundant. Happy designing.

i dont know. seems very risky

Your choice, I’m not going to push you to it. Nothing risky, free easy software. Can’t be any better. Plus you’ll learn something doing it that some schools don’t touch.

i really just want to finish my yoyo nothing more. Because ive been wanting to make my own yoyo for quite some time but didnt had the recourses to do it. now that i have them i really just want to design it print it and then CNC as a final product. People should like do a program for just designing yoyos that was simple easy to manage but efficient

So just help me finalize my yoyo and thats all

you need to give your phone number! i wont give mine plus im 14 i knew it was risky

A lot of that stuff was always optional.

ok take a breath again, what program are you using? FreeCAD? I’ll DL it tonight and look into it. Once I figure it out I’ll dm you and get your design and try to help.

thank you. but for obvious reasons i cant call you via call so message would be preferable

Just want to let you know any program is going to have intricacies that are easier or harder than other programs, there is no perfect program. I would start a new sketch and see if you can create the dimensions you need and copy and paste the stuff over to your drawing. Sometimes you just have to take a deep breath and reset yourself to be able to see the solution. You might want to see if there are dimension or metric conversions for freecad not YoYo related to see if there are other solutions to your problem. You got this man​:oncoming_fist:

thanks for the motivation

maybe this will be my only yoyo ill make. Maybe just maybe because i have ideas and i usually want them to come true

so you want to talk via discord so i can send you the files or you want to continue on the yoyoexperts blog?

Can you show me which points you’re trying to dimension? Or maybe email me your freecad file?
email: freecad @ mk1yoyos.com

I am also on discord

just_another will help me designing but feel free to enter in the server he created. heres my discord profile laranji71. But i prefer to talk through message only

can you give me your discord username? he said that it would better for you to help me than him

You can find me in this server: MK1 YOYO CLUB

Calling out to some Fusion guru’s!

So I have made a sketch and I’m trying to turn it into a solid/revolve it. My current issue is that when I try to revolve it, it keeps disappearing on me. So there I sit thinking wtf am I doing wrong. This is the general shape, ugly I know but it’s a starting point. no axle, bearing seat, or sticky pad yet. any advise would be appreciated!

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Once you take an action on a sketch like revolve, extrude, etc it hides it. There is an eyeball icon on the left that will become greyed out. Click it to show the sketch again. Double click on the sketch name if you need to edit to further.

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