Model for Structure Joints
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- Source
- Printables
- Category
- Engineering
- License
- Creative Commons — Attribution
This model was created to enable modeling of structural shapes with flexible joints. I have printed in PETG, but wasn't sufficiently flexible. I haven't tried TPU. I would love to know what others on printables think about making it better.
My background is civil/structural engineering. Years ago I had materials available for modeling chemical compounds, and these worked well for demonstrating structural systems which would work with fully flexible joints. I used these to demonstrate that a triangular shape is the basic building block for trusses in a plane. I then extrapolated to show that a 3D shape with triangular faces (a tetrahedron) is the equivalent building block for space trusses.