Overview and Background

Lesson Plan and Activity

Creating basic-phone-holder1
By Glenn Mossy

Here is all the parts we are going to use to assemble the phone holder:

And is the final result:

Two “Box” Solid rectangles, make them purple, w 8 x d 50 x h 8.
You can place them as follows and group them together.
Get a “Wedge”, make it blue, w 68 x d 32.56 x h 12. Place at the end of the purple rectangles, and group.
Two “Pyramids” make them yellow, and 6 x 20 x 14, Place at the end of the purple rectangles on top.
Get a One “Box”, make it red, make a standing angle frame W 6.30 x l 68 x h 61.70.
Place at a 22.5 deg slant against the purple legs, rest against the workplane.
{Total size with a horizontal workplane after rotation of 22.5 degrees should be 68 x 25.90 x h 59.41}
Use the Align function to line up the parts, with the legs.
Align the Red Frame and Blue Wedge so that you will have a shelf to place your phone on it, and you will cut a divit for the phone. Use a ruler.
Place a “cylinder” hole 11 x 10 x 72 in the cradle base, placing the center of the cylinder at 12mm high into the “Wedge” and group together. You will need to use a vertical workplane on to the wedge and a ruler to get the 12mm height into the blue wedge.
Group the parts together.
Place a “box” hole to make a square hole D 50.13 x w 52.09 x h 53, inside the standing angle frame.
Center Align the hole inside the square frame.
Do a group of everything together so far, so that the box hole cuts a square hole into the standing angle frame.
Drop a workplane onto the red, standing angle frame.
Get two “MetaFillets” l 20 x h 20 x d 4 and place each on opposite sides of the standing square frame.
Place the metafillets inside the standing square frame.
Using a workplane on the frame. Add a “Gear” on to the workplane and size at d 22.9 x w 54 x h 51.91.
Use a new workplane on the frame to adjust the gear with the vertical arrow tip. Move the “Gear” to the inside of the standing angle frame. Make sure the gear tips are connected to the inside of the standing frame.
Create a “cylinder” hole for the gear sized 25 x 25 x h 20. Use this to cut a hole in the center of the gear. Remember to keep the workplane on the standing frame.
Use the vertical arrow to place the hole inside the gear.
Group together to cut the hole into the gear.
Reset the horizontal workplane and you are done and ready to export to an stl file!

Skills Learned

Tinkercad

Duration of Lesson

1 hour

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