I like that you are using verniers vs digital calipers👊. Don't see that too often. I recently bought an older 24 inch Brown and Sharp verniers to measure something bigger for one of my garage projects.
First comment😊 Thanks for showing us your design process. I’ve been wanting to make my own 3-D printing business and these videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Another great video! I personally like the red one the best. To help with the overhangs where the arms wrap around the sides of the iPad, maybe try taking the angled edge like you have at the front, and carry it around the side and into the mount. I think this may allow you to print without supports in that spot? Maybe.. Regardless, a great video and awesome showing your design process! You're much more of an artist than I am. :)
Really appreciate it! I'm not sure if I showed it well in the video, but yes you are spot on. The red version printed without supports. Still a couple tweaks to make it better though :)
Your videos are great, very down to earth and that's something that you don't always find with youtubers. Once you complete that design, I'd like to buy it so I can print one for my granddaughter. I would buy a print from your shop but, being in Mexico, shipping costs just get aoutrageous.
Hey great content! I’m about to start on the 3d design and print journey myself based on the UK. Can I ask what’s your favourite design software and 3d design software? Also as no one really mentioned this on any channel, from buying a printer to actually selling and getting sales how long was your process? Did you start out selling your own designs or used a patreon to get started. Would love to know the full journey from deciding to buy a printer to actually selling items. I.e honing in on quality prints happy to sell etc.. I know you have covered some aspects but feel a lot do not give a true picture of how long it takes to get started. Thanks and have a wonderful Christmas and New year.
Thanks! You missed out on a previous video where I covered some of this, but from first product listed to sale it was 10 days. I put a single product on Etsy to start. My design software of choice this year has been Shapr3D. I have an upcoming video to recap my first year in business and think it will cover a lot of your questions! Stay tuned :)
Short question Bro, do you have any issues with smell or polution from printing with Pla/petg? I want to run a similar setup, but I am limited in space. Have a merry Christmas mate 🎉
It basically doesnt exist from PLA and PETG, PETG is the cleanest filament to print in any high dollar scientific test. You can always run a filter if you are worried, but tests have shown PLA and PETG give off well below "safe" levels of anything, with the biggest readings actually being the heat up of the nozzle and hot end assemble even if filament wasn't present, but that spike nearly immediately returns to untraceable results once up to temp. I've never seen an academic test that has show PLA or PETG to be a risk, outside of some very exotic mixes where its the added component that causes some offgassing like wood, carbon fiber, or the oddballs that 3D Fuel creates like their weird lines of experimental mixes. In comparison, ABS/ASA/PA, 100% run a filter. ABS/ASA release styrene fumes which are horrible for you. PA has a high VOC count, while less unhealthy than styrene fumes, are more aggitating to your lungs.
Those are 3D printed radius gauges. I used them to figure out what radius Apple used on the iPad mini. Here is the link! makerworld.com/en/models/23410?from=search#profileId-26483
Thanks for the offer! One tricky part with design is needing to test it in the real world. Even if you passed along measurements I'm not confident it would work as expected.
@@OfficialOffDaBench I could if anything print it out to test it, but i definitely know what you mean. Love seeing the progress! Hope you get to your 365 sales man!
All designs are copyrighted in US as soon as you put them into a tangible form, even if that is a note on a napkin. There are some specifics on if you can consider an idea stolen though since you have to prove they had access to the idea and wasn't coincidence you both thought of the same thing for example, and other qualifiers. This is why even if you think an idea is bad, it sometimes can be very beneficial to put out a prototype so you have a papertrail of tangibility to defend your claim to a product/design/idea. The next step would be patenting, which is costly, time consuming, and only specific things can be patented as you have to be able to prove it doesn't violate a LOT of other factors as a novel idea/process/product. You cant just make a slightly different shaped cereal bowl and try to patent it for example.
Doing so kills the shop's Etsy conversions since many are just lookers and not shoppers. Etsy penalizes shops who don't convert viewers into customers. He's doing the right thing by not linking it.
Great question! Both answers are correct. I am working on a Shopify store for 2025. I'll have that link on my channel once I'm done building the website :)
They do, but I intentionally don't include magnets in my designs I plan to sell. It drastically increases the complexity and handling time of each unit, which then I have to charger for. Often makes the products not worth the time to sell. That said. magnets would be sweet for an idea like this!
Working so close to the printer with VOCs in the air may not be the best idea my friend. Take it from someone who had VOC poisoning inhaling 3D printing VOCs.
On the white on you could make the handle and the T that fits into it screw together. Put a little super glue on the threads and it will then be printed flat and screw together. If that makes no sense let me know. Great idea!
Nah it print in place is a huge plus for print time and durability. To clean up the issue on the print he just needs to add a small fillet or chamfer to that edge. Maybe play with tolerance slightly in that area to see how tight you can print it without it causing fusing or difficulty turning. The closer you can get that tolerance and a small chamfer (even if just 1mm) will reduce slight print imperfections caused by it needing to start that first layer on a tiny air gap. The chamfer itself moves the imperfection from being at the surface that would sit against the iPad, to being instead slightly inset and basically makes it invisible.
I like that you are using verniers vs digital calipers👊. Don't see that too often. I recently bought an older 24 inch Brown and Sharp verniers to measure something bigger for one of my garage projects.
The red one is nice
Hey! I was the 5000th subscriber!!!
Congrats! I'm liking the videos and the style!
Awesome! Thank you!
love watching your videos!! just got a printer myself cant wait to start printing!😊
Thanks! Super excited for you 🙂
@@OfficialOffDaBenchim obsessed with it now😄
First comment😊
Thanks for showing us your design process. I’ve been wanting to make my own 3-D printing business and these videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Your welcome!
Another great video! I personally like the red one the best. To help with the overhangs where the arms wrap around the sides of the iPad, maybe try taking the angled edge like you have at the front, and carry it around the side and into the mount. I think this may allow you to print without supports in that spot? Maybe.. Regardless, a great video and awesome showing your design process! You're much more of an artist than I am. :)
Really appreciate it! I'm not sure if I showed it well in the video, but yes you are spot on. The red version printed without supports. Still a couple tweaks to make it better though :)
Love your content! 👏 Merry Christmas everyone 🎄
Appreciate it! 🙂
Your videos are great, very down to earth and that's something that you don't always find with youtubers. Once you complete that design, I'd like to buy it so I can print one for my granddaughter. I would buy a print from your shop but, being in Mexico, shipping costs just get aoutrageous.
What prints would you recommend for your a1 mini - I see you do the top spool holder?
I have a link to the top mount spool holder in the description. The only other thing you may want is a poop bin :)
Yessss yes yesss!
Hey great content! I’m about to start on the 3d design and print journey myself based on the UK. Can I ask what’s your favourite design software and 3d design software? Also as no one really mentioned this on any channel, from buying a printer to actually selling and getting sales how long was your process? Did you start out selling your own designs or used a patreon to get started. Would love to know the full journey from deciding to buy a printer to actually selling items. I.e honing in on quality prints happy to sell etc.. I know you have covered some aspects but feel a lot do not give a true picture of how long it takes to get started. Thanks and have a wonderful Christmas and New year.
Thanks! You missed out on a previous video where I covered some of this, but from first product listed to sale it was 10 days. I put a single product on Etsy to start.
My design software of choice this year has been Shapr3D.
I have an upcoming video to recap my first year in business and think it will cover a lot of your questions! Stay tuned :)
Short question Bro, do you have any issues with smell or polution from printing with Pla/petg? I want to run a similar setup, but I am limited in space.
Have a merry Christmas mate 🎉
No issues on my end! I print almost exclusively with PLA which is very safe.
It basically doesnt exist from PLA and PETG, PETG is the cleanest filament to print in any high dollar scientific test. You can always run a filter if you are worried, but tests have shown PLA and PETG give off well below "safe" levels of anything, with the biggest readings actually being the heat up of the nozzle and hot end assemble even if filament wasn't present, but that spike nearly immediately returns to untraceable results once up to temp. I've never seen an academic test that has show PLA or PETG to be a risk, outside of some very exotic mixes where its the added component that causes some offgassing like wood, carbon fiber, or the oddballs that 3D Fuel creates like their weird lines of experimental mixes.
In comparison, ABS/ASA/PA, 100% run a filter. ABS/ASA release styrene fumes which are horrible for you. PA has a high VOC count, while less unhealthy than styrene fumes, are more aggitating to your lungs.
Can we have stl files to radius gauges?
Here you go! makerworld.com/en/models/23410?from=search#profileId-26483
good video , what program use for design?slicer
Thanks! I use Shapr3D, and BambuStudio
@@OfficialOffDaBench thanks you 👍
You should make a hole for the charger if its used as a stand
Already on it!
Are the yellow chips you used while modeling like router jigs?
Those are 3D printed radius gauges. I used them to figure out what radius Apple used on the iPad mini. Here is the link!
makerworld.com/en/models/23410?from=search#profileId-26483
Sweet thank you so much! I am in need of these do bad.
Hey, let me know if you need any dimensions for the Ipad Pro and the new thinner Ipad Pro. Love the design.
Thanks for the offer! One tricky part with design is needing to test it in the real world. Even if you passed along measurements I'm not confident it would work as expected.
@@OfficialOffDaBench I could if anything print it out to test it, but i definitely know what you mean. Love seeing the progress! Hope you get to your 365 sales man!
You should build a small shop.
JTL for example is free and very intuitive if you have less then 500 Items.
I have an Etsy shop, and working to build a Shopify store. What is JTL?
Suspicious 💯
do you have the Amazon link for the yellow tools to measure the angles? Thans @OffDaBench
Actually found this model on Maker World! Here you go :)
makerworld.com/en/models/23410?from=search#profileId-26483
A lot of people copyright their artsy 3D prints. Can the same thing be applied to this kind of stuff?
I don't think so. Pretty sure these would fall under the patent process
IIRC, all 3d prints are copyrighted, even if the owner doesn't intentionally do anything for it. Patents aren't worth it if that's what you meant.
All designs are copyrighted in US as soon as you put them into a tangible form, even if that is a note on a napkin. There are some specifics on if you can consider an idea stolen though since you have to prove they had access to the idea and wasn't coincidence you both thought of the same thing for example, and other qualifiers. This is why even if you think an idea is bad, it sometimes can be very beneficial to put out a prototype so you have a papertrail of tangibility to defend your claim to a product/design/idea.
The next step would be patenting, which is costly, time consuming, and only specific things can be patented as you have to be able to prove it doesn't violate a LOT of other factors as a novel idea/process/product. You cant just make a slightly different shaped cereal bowl and try to patent it for example.
Noticed you dont link your shop in the description of your videos? I feel like your doing a disservice to yourself by not driving traffic that way.
I think he doesn’t add the link because of the coversion rate on Etsy. It would basically tank.
Doing so kills the shop's Etsy conversions since many are just lookers and not shoppers. Etsy penalizes shops who don't convert viewers into customers. He's doing the right thing by not linking it.
Great question! Both answers are correct. I am working on a Shopify store for 2025. I'll have that link on my channel once I'm done building the website :)
Doesn't the iPad mini have magnets on the back? If so, put magnets in your holder instead of the holders on the left and right side.
They do, but I intentionally don't include magnets in my designs I plan to sell. It drastically increases the complexity and handling time of each unit, which then I have to charger for. Often makes the products not worth the time to sell.
That said. magnets would be sweet for an idea like this!
Working so close to the printer with VOCs in the air may not be the best idea my friend. Take it from someone who had VOC poisoning inhaling 3D printing VOCs.
what symptoms did you have?
I have an air filter down here, and also am just showing a small corner of my basement.
On the white on you could make the handle and the T that fits into it screw together. Put a little super glue on the threads and it will then be printed flat and screw together. If that makes no sense let me know. Great idea!
That's a good idea. I'll need to learn how to make threads. Shapr3D doesn't have the feature, unlike Fusion360
@ ah ok. I thought you were using fusion. Let me know if I can help.
Nah it print in place is a huge plus for print time and durability. To clean up the issue on the print he just needs to add a small fillet or chamfer to that edge. Maybe play with tolerance slightly in that area to see how tight you can print it without it causing fusing or difficulty turning. The closer you can get that tolerance and a small chamfer (even if just 1mm) will reduce slight print imperfections caused by it needing to start that first layer on a tiny air gap. The chamfer itself moves the imperfection from being at the surface that would sit against the iPad, to being instead slightly inset and basically makes it invisible.