How To Design a 3D Printed Overlapping Blade Mechanical IRIS in Fusion

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Published 2024-06-24
In our third video we are going to start looking at Mechanical Iris designs with overlapping blades. The type we will model in this video is probably the easiest one to understand but it will not close entirely. There are loads of variations of this design and we will focus on just the mechanics of it. If you want to make your own for 3d printing you will need to figure out how you want to hold everything together.

The version I 3d printed for the video can be found here, but could use a bit more work for better retention features or more space depending on how thick you plan to make your blades.
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All Comments (6)
  • @GeryS.
    Another great variation! 👍 Never thought that there are so many versions of this eye catching mechanism!
  • @billyfrank6318
    Great Job/Series on these Iris's.. Never paid much attention to them and they always seemed a bit rocket scientisty, but these are great tutorials you did and now you got me thinking 🤔
  • @quanstephens2011
    Good afternoon, great content seriously. just wanted to ask referring back to your wide body kit series, would you design a bumper for someone ofcourse there will be a cost involved. thanks keep up the good work.
  • @nahuelise4055
    Really Nice work! I'll try to print this one later and see how it goes. Now i have a kinda tricky question,have you seen the 2 strokes pipes? How would you approach modeling one of those?and a second question related to that,is there a way of taking the slices and unfold them to do a flat pattern and send them as a dxf to a laser cutting shop?sorry for the long question,thanks in advance