A couple blocks of metal with a ledge or flange placed around the thin hex nut and welded only to sheet metal would make it captive and stop rotation for tightening without welding hex nut directly.
Consider capturing that nut. A hex ring inside for positioning and 2-3 tabs to capture it. It will float a little and be secured for tightening. Like a car door mount. Superfast Matt cut back on his tabs to mack the welds more consistent. I like tabs and the self-fixturing they do. I tend to have a lot of tabs. I'm trying to cut back.
Import the graphics body in SW, do a 3D sketch and you can drop points on the scan in SW. If you drop 3 points, make a plane, then you can align the planes to the origin in an assembly, then model the part you are making around the scan in assembly view.
If you had a lathe, you could turn a solid plug to mimic the body and thread of the site-glass body. It would act as a heat-sink and help hold the shape of the nut.
Like @xxboostyxx said, turn on your selection filters toolbar on the bottom and enable the Mesh Vertices and Mesh Edges selection filters to work within it
Great video. "Brainstorming" Regarding eye glass, could you have a secondary item laser cut, that is like the end of a ring spanner that you weld in to hold the inside nut in place? That way you are moving the weld heat away from the O-rings, along with eliminating distortion of the inside nut thread. Having the eye glass not welded will help with heat transfer also. Thanks from Australia! PS. grab yourself a Creality Otter 3D scanner... You can thank me later!
Hi Tyler, you can edit the graphical (STL) select facets by turning on selection filter. the shortcut is F6 and filter Mesh Facet Vertices. that way you can add planes rather than importing OBJ files. hope that helps.
great video, earned you a subscriber! Do you have information on the tool you use on the fixture table that adjusts height so you can support pieces from underneath when welding?
A couple blocks of metal with a ledge or flange placed around the thin hex nut and welded only to sheet metal would make it captive and stop rotation for tightening without welding hex nut directly.
Consider capturing that nut. A hex ring inside for positioning and 2-3 tabs to capture it. It will float a little and be secured for tightening. Like a car door mount.
Superfast Matt cut back on his tabs to mack the welds more consistent. I like tabs and the self-fixturing they do. I tend to have a lot of tabs. I'm trying to cut back.
This is such a good video on the process to make your thoughts come to reality. Thanks for posting this!
Great! Job Tyler. Thanks for sharing!
Import the graphics body in SW, do a 3D sketch and you can drop points on the scan in SW. If you drop 3 points, make a plane, then you can align the planes to the origin in an assembly, then model the part you are making around the scan in assembly view.
This was an impressive video. Good job and thanks for teaching what you know
You can load a graphic body without scan to 3d. Then enable selection filters to be able to select edges and vertices in the mesh.
Been trying to figure this one out, thanks!
That came out awesome!
@@kyle_RX7 thanks man!
If you had a lathe, you could turn a solid plug to mimic the body and thread of the site-glass body. It would act as a heat-sink and help hold the shape of the nut.
Like @xxboostyxx said, turn on your selection filters toolbar on the bottom and enable the Mesh Vertices and Mesh Edges selection filters to work within it
@@estuckey63 yup, that’s exactly what I was missing. Thanks!
I remember trying to figure it out when I was learning and getting so frustrated but it’s no big deal now!
Came out great. Solid Works is a good choice too.
Great video.
"Brainstorming"
Regarding eye glass, could you have a secondary item laser cut, that is like the end of a ring spanner that you weld in to hold the inside nut in place?
That way you are moving the weld heat away from the O-rings, along with eliminating distortion of the inside nut thread.
Having the eye glass not welded will help with heat transfer also.
Thanks from Australia!
PS. grab yourself a Creality Otter 3D scanner... You can thank me later!
@@stevesloan6775 excellent idea!
Hi Tyler, you can edit the graphical (STL) select facets by turning on selection filter. the shortcut is F6 and filter Mesh Facet Vertices. that way you can add planes rather than importing OBJ files. hope that helps.
@@IbbyDesignFab super helpful. Thank you!
Well done.
Awsome video! Got yourself a sub!
great video, earned you a subscriber! Do you have information on the tool you use on the fixture table that adjusts height so you can support pieces from underneath when welding?
@@cjg253 thanks! It’s called a machinist jack. I made this one about 15 years ago but you can get them on amazon.
where did you find the viewing window for the tank? that thing is rad!
McMaster
@heintztyler what did you look it up as? A site window?
nice , you tried convert to mesh ?
I'll give that a try