Parametric Print In Place Hinge

Ready To Use Customizable Print In Place Hinges

Maker/DIY

GPLv3

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Description

These simple and graceful hinges have been designed with FreeCAD.

The print-in-place design provides ready to use, fully functional and strong enough hinges for many uses. No need to add a metallic pin.

Open the FreeCAD .fcstd file, adjust the parameters in the 'Dimensions' spreadsheet and generate your customized hinge. When some parameters combinations are impossible, FreeCAD will either ignore your choice or just crash.

Vertical play has to be set just above your printing layer thickness in order to have an empty layer between the two leafs.
Pin play has to be set according to the precision you can get from your printer and also depends of your nozzle size.

These hinges are intended to be printed vertically, so I put an angle between the two leafs to bring more stability during the printing.

Once printed, you must force or knock them a little to make the leafs rotate. If it's too hard or if the hinge breaks, increase the pin play.

An STL file is given as an example.

Feel free to use and share this design. Good design is hard work, donations are welcome.

Changelog:

Updated on Apr. 20th, 2020:

  • Simplified some sketches
  • fixed a bug due to redundant constraints

Updated on Apr. 12th, 2020:

  • Improved design to increase the folding angle
  • fixed a bug that appeared after a FreeCAD update

Materials and methods

Only tested with PLA. I can't tell more about other materials

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Comments

9b13628553555eec95ba67602050319e?default=blank&size=40retiredguru added this to the Workshop collection ago
Dc2299da090bfc3f9cf183de934259c1?default=blank&size=40Jason Low added this to the woodworking collection ago
Mini avatarfunkysod commented ago

You're welcome! A God kväll (it's correct!) to you to.

Den tors 7 nov. 2019 kl 16:27 skrev YouMagine - Supercomputer <

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Mini monogramMarc BERLIOUX commented ago

Hi funkysod (T----s),

Thanks for your gift. I'm very touched, it's my first one

Bonne soirée ! (God kväll ?!)

Mini avatarfunkysod commented ago

Thanks! I'll check it out!

Den tors 7 nov. 2019 kl 12:08 skrev YouMagine - Supercomputer <

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Mini monogramMarc BERLIOUX commented ago

Hello funkysod,

I do appreciate your comment, thanks.

If you sometimes use LibreCAD too, I recommend you a tool I made to convert LibreCAD DXF to FreeCAD sketches :

https://framagit.org/MarcusFecit/LibreCadToFreeCad

Regards,

Marc

Mini avatarfunkysod commented ago

Hello Marc!

Really love your hinge-design. As a fellow FreeCad user it makes me happy to see such good designs made with FreeCad.

Ac10e654b22efc6d65a265fd85c2e79e?default=blank&size=40MartyFR added this to the complément outillage collection ago
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Mini monogramMarc BERLIOUX published this design ago