In this guide I will go through the design and printing of a simple speaker Enclosure. This is not intended to be acoustically correct, more a exercise in the design process
Part 1 - The design PhaseFor simple parts I use an free online tool called tinkercad. (
www.tinkercad.com) This is very simple to use and an evening spend going through the tutorials will pay dividends. There are other much more powerful applications available but in this instance I will use tinkercad as it is very easy to grasp and simple models can be created quickly with little cad or technical drawing skills.
This is tinkercad:-
I then Selected a box
The box can then be resized to the correct dimensions
Now we have a box that is to the dimensions we require. We need to make a hole in it, so I created another box the size of the inner dimensions and assigned it as a hole
The hole is then moved into the box
The hole and the box are then grouped together and we we end up with an open box
Using more boxes I have added some reinforcement to the corners where the top will screw down
Next up is the lid
The lid is simply 2 boxes stacked on top of one another
Then some screw holes. These were created by manipulating the cylinder tool and assigning them as a hole.
Now the speaker opening. I created the opening by manipulating the cylinder to the correct dimensions
This is then placed into the lid
once the piece is converted to a Hole we end up with this
Total time taken to design this (while also writing the notes and taking screenshots) was less than an hour
That’s it for this instalment
In the next instalment I will talk about how to export the model and preparing for 3d printing
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