There’s all kinds of reasons to learn and use FreeCAD and we probably should never get into saying that one use case is better than any other. That said, it’s always awesome to see FreeCAD combined with 3D printing for repair. Spotted over in the FreeCAD Facebook community it’s great to see that Bjørn Birkeland managed to get their vacuum back up and running after some very excellent CAD work.
Bjørn hasn’t shied away from the complexity of doing the job properly. Not only creating the geometry of the replacement piece but also accurately modelling the parts connecting to the faulty area. It’s a very well worked example. As such the resulting 3D printed part is a great fit and almost looks like a stock part. We like how Bjørn has used a contrasting colour of filament for the repair part, it’s nice sometimes to show that a part has been repaired and Bjørn should be proud of their work.
4 responses to “Forged in FreeCAD: Bjørn’s Vacuum Cleaner Repair”
Any links?
No sorry, It isn’t really posted anywhere, I just made contact to check I could show the images and describe the repair. EDIT, Actually it is held in the Facebook FreeCAD group file section.
Call me oldschool but I am on emails and urls :-). I also very appreciate https://web.archive.org/ so nothing gets lost over time. According to the foto, it is the same vacuum cleaner I have, so I thought it’s cool someone can fix that. Mine is over 10 years old so it has just fallen apart (not worth fixing anymore). But is is seriously cool we can add “vacuum cleaner fixing” to the tool-belt of freecad+3d printing!
re “Actually it is held in the Facebook FreeCAD group file section. ” and to prevent loss this can’t be linked via a URL ?