{"id":1559,"date":"2022-02-19T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2022-02-19T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T21:34:16","slug":"3d-printer-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2022\/02\/19\/3d-printer-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printer to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4597-1024x964.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1562\" width=\"199\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4597-1024x964.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4597-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4597-1536x1447.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4597-2048x1929.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px\" \/><figcaption>Traveling Pill Container<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been a long time since I printed something with my 3D printer. The last project was to print out a traveling pill box, which I ended up using when I went to Montreal during the last Thanksgiving holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning my wife approached me with a request to create a part for the <a href=\"https:\/\/yarn-store.com\/silver-reed-lk150-knitting-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Silver Reed LK150 Knitting Machine<\/a>. This part had custom dimensions, which I had to design with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.ca\/en\/products\/fusion-360\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Autodesk Fusion 360<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/lk150ab__98478.1485408780.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1561\" width=\"678\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/lk150ab__98478.1485408780.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/lk150ab__98478.1485408780-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Silver Reed LK150 Knitting Machine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also been a very long time since I designed something with Fusion 360, but kudos to the people at Autodesk to continue to allow people such as myself to use Fusion 360 for free as long as it is for personal use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always with these 3D project, it is very much measure three times, and draw once. I have to re-acclimate myself with how to use Fusion 360, but after about fifteen minutes, I was back at it, drawing lines, and creating polygons. The final outcome is shown below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"842\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4596-1024x842.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4596-1024x842.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4596-300x247.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4596-768x631.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4596-1536x1263.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4596-2048x1684.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>3D Printed Result<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, I did a pretty good job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long time since I printed something with my 3D printer. The last project was to print out a traveling pill box, which I ended up using when I went to Montreal during the last Thanksgiving holidays. This morning my wife approached me with a request to create a part for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2022\/02\/19\/3d-printer-to-the-rescue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3D Printer to the Rescue!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d-print"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/02\/IMG_4595.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-p9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}