Yoyo CAD & Prototyping Adventures


If anyone’s looking for a good color to render gold rings, here’s my favorite so far for Fusion 360. You can copy these values into your own appearance. Looks way better than “shiny 100% yellow”.

(This is a really rough first draft of nothing in particular specifically to show off the rings)

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that looks super cool.

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I started trying to use CAD for yoyos two days ago. @Durfee wanted me to make a draw up a mk1 diffraction that had flatter rims and was a tiny bit wider. So here’s my first (serious) design, the durfraction

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Some recent drafts.

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The second two are amazing

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Thanks! You mean the quad metal and the green one, right?

I shudder at the thought of trying to machine that quad metal

Luckily it only exists in my “yoyo graveyard” design folder.

Lol no the quad metal was unsettling to look at, the last two I meant

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these look really awesome.

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Spent the last week or so figuring out 360. Here is what i have made so far. 51x42 weighs 59.8. A little smaller than i want and lighter. more work to do.

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Oh shoot I should post these here too. I designed some tessellating yoyos, called tesellate so I could potentially make a bimetal version and add the other “s” I also made a dome display thingy lol

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An O shaped mid ring yoyo. Specs are still wacky but the shape looks nice.

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I like it!

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The profile and steel rims look nice, but the cup is too AR-T like for me.

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You think so? They’re not really know for their flat cups. Almost all of them have a concave hub.

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Here’s a “very mk1” version of the above. Really hard to manage center weight with this cup on an O-shaped yoyo, but that’s what undercuts are for.

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holy dude that looks so good, it reminds me of a sf

You have such great designs

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Awesome work

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