Yoyo CAD & Prototyping Adventures

Righteous, thank you much. You rule Audrey/Andy/Them/They/Team Throw-Yo!

Messy baby 1 looking kind’a pretty all because to rule!

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Man, I was super confused at what I was looking at until I realized I use dark mode/black background. Just wanted to add on to that when you edit the sketch that created the body it will make the body tab disappear until you finish the sketch, and it’s hit or miss depending on the changes you made if you will have to re-revolve it or if the changes were made automatically to your body.

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Right on, good to know. I’m going to assume that if I extrude/remove anything in solid view it will not show on the original sketch. Such as removing the material for the bearing seat and return seal. Probably better to just do that in the sketch.

and I have a feeling that I didn’t leave enough meat on their for the bearing and seal, have to move that around a bit

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You’ll find with practice that some things are easier to do in the sketch panel and some are easier to do in the solids panel. And sometimes when designs get complicated you’ll realize there is an order of operations to make life easier. Good luck man​:oncoming_fist:

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Dude I’m totally taking that as a “you should have started there dumb ■■■” (that’s on me) haha. Back to the sketch I go.

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Not at all man, like the old saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin the gerbil. Do what is easier for you, both in how you think, visualize, and skill. You’ll figure out what works the best for you and if you have issues there is always the back button. Also, as someone that doesn’t save as often as I should and tends to lose stuff when things update. As long as the file has been saved once AND is editable there will be a recovery file for you to get back to work.

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I’m still trying to figure out why we are skinning a gerbil. The meat is scrumptious and you need a lot of veno to make a pot of stew.

Thanks dude.

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I may have the opportunity in the near future to do a short run of in-house (USA, west coast) manufactured yoyos. I now have access to some bar feed lathes and even live tooling, but time would only allow for a short run. I already have a anodizer in mind whos more on the artistic side of finishing, but… The only problem lies in my old cad designs, they are outdated and rough. I need to play around with modeling some more myself…

Anyways I’m coming here for a lot of inspiration on design, so thanks everyone. Im thinking it would be a mono 6061 yoyo, probably organic. Big shoutout to all the good knowledge here and feel free to reply with any ideas or insight.

Mario

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