Joining Features | Design for Mass Production 3D Printing

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Are you looking to create 3D printed parts that fit together seamlessly and reliably? Joining features are essential for ensuring your designs stay securely connected. In this video, we explore common methods like tongue and slot joins, but we also reveal more advanced and robust solutions. We'll guide you through designing joinery and explain how to enhance two-slot designs by incorporating additional features. Join us as we provide insights into tolerances, material considerations, and first-layer challenges. With these advanced techniques, you can create complex models, architectural designs, or building kits with ease, resulting in reliable and manufacturable 3D printed parts. If you want to learn more about how you can transform your approach to manufacturing products with mass production 3D printing, don't forget to subscribe to Slant 3D! Want to Sell 3D Prints Without the Hassle of Running a Print Farm? Check out Teleport: https://tinyurl.com/mr3txhuk Check Out Our Other Channels Slant POD: @SlantPrintOnDemand (3D Printing Business Tips) Tangled: @TangledTesting (3D Printing Materials & Testing) 🔗 OTHER LINKS 🔗 Get Our $10 Filament: https://tinyurl.com/bdcjjc9m Our Partner Designer: https://tinyurl.com/4aaz74pu Try Shapr3D (Use Code: Slant3d for 10% OFF): https://tinyurl.com/pc2r8wcv 00:00 How-to Design 3D Printed Joinery 00:20 Designing a Simple Tongue and Groove Joint for 3D Printing 01:08 Designing a T-Slot Joint for 3D Printing 02:05 Improvements to the T-Slot Joint 03:39 Designing an Eye Slot Joint for 3D Printing 05:09 Improving the Eye Slot with Grip Fins 06:17 Designing Snap-In Joints for 3D Printing 08:43 Outro About Slant 3D 🏭 High-Volume 3D Printing: Scalability Meets Flexibility Slant 3D's Large-Scale 3D Print Farms utilize 1000's of FDM 3D printers working 24/7 to offer limitless scalability and unparalleled flexibility. Whether it's 100 or 100,000 parts, our system can handle it reliably, while still allowing for real-time design updates, ensuring products evolve with the times. This adaptability is key in today's fast-paced world. 🌿 Sustainable Manufacturing: Eco-Friendly Efficiency Embrace a system that drastically reduces carbon emissions by eliminating carbon-intensive steps in the supply chain, such as global shipping and warehousing. Our approach minimizes this footprint, offering a more sustainable manufacturing option. ⚙️ Digital Warehouses: Parts On-Demand Think of print farms as a "Digital Warehouse", meaning we can store your parts digitally on a server rather than physically on a shelf. parts are available on-demand, reducing the need for extensive physical inventory. Produced by Slant Media