pic: The humble wrench

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by daniel_dsouza

I've seen many great pictures of CADed robots this season, and realized that the tools that we use to build them don't get enough credit. So here is a tribute to the battle-hardened wrench. It can be used as a crowbar, a hammer, a pointing stick, and also as a wrench.

And also as a wrench

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

A grade nine beating stick

Hey >:l

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by Gregor01

Hey >:l

Freshman power!

Don't forget noisemaker and attention-grabber (plus anger-venting fodder).

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Gregor01

Hey >:l

What you guys don't have a paddle to "Encourage" grade nines to deburr?

I broke ours on one of our students...
Which reminds me... I have to make a new one for next year... I think i'll start designing it.

[MattC9]

Its also pretty good at fixing things... just sayin'

[Richard Wallace]

Is your model parametric, so that you can drive dimensions for a wrench of any size from a table? Since this is a learning exercise, making the model parametric would be a good goal. Might even lead to useful results, or at least to interesting artistic combinations.



(Ooh, really bad pun.)

[daniel_dsouza]

Originally Posted by Richard

Is your model parametric, so that you can drive dimensions for a wrench of any size from a table? Since this is a learning exercise, making the model parametric would be a good goal.

Can you recommend how I would go about doing this? I didn't even know this was possible! I had just stuck with a size 22, because taking measurements was easy.

[billbo911]

Well, now that you are talking "measurements", please include the size on this beauty. My suggestion......."7/16".

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by billbo911

Well, now that you are talking "measurements", please include the size on this beauty. My suggestion......."7/16".

Seconded!

Step 2: Make it a 7/16 ratchet.

[emekablue]

Originally Posted by JosephC

Seconded!

Step 2: Make it a 7/16 ratchet.

Thirded! (Is that even a word?)
Step 3: Make your entire tool chest!

jk, but seriously, great work. I'll show this to some of my newbies in CAD for inspiration.

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by emekablue

Thirded! (Is that even a word?)

If it isn't it should be.

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by Richard

Is your model parametric, so that you can drive dimensions for a wrench of any size from a table? Since this is a learning exercise, making the model parametric would be a good goal. Might even lead to useful results, or at least to interesting artistic combinations.
(Ooh, really bad pun.)

While changing a variety of parameters based on a table would be one way to do it, you could also create multiple configurations of the same part. I'm not as well versed in SolidWorks as I am in Inventor, but I believe this is the way that professionally modeled parts (like screws, etc.) are given multiple sizes.