Stirling Engine Design & Assembly Step-by-Step Tutorial

In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to work with Part Studios in Onshape to design components to work together, and how to bring these parts into an assembly to create mates and incorporate assembly motion.

Chapters:
0:00 Introducing the Stirling Engine project
1:47 Lesson 01 – Intro and Shortcut Keys
6:00 Lesson 02 – Lower Plate
11:58 Lesson 3 – Upper Plate
15:32 Lesson 4 – Glass Sleeve
18:02 Lesson 5 – Lower Pins
21:14 ADDENDUM – Variable Studio
22:18 Lesson 6 – Displacer and Displacer Rod
28:15 Lesson 7 – Main Mechanism
31:15 Lesson 8 – Layout Sketch
38:22 Lesson 9 – 5 Parts
43:40 Lesson 10 – Connecting Rod – REAR
46:25 Lesson 11 – Connecting Rod – FRONT
49:19 Lesson 12 – Flywheel
54:16 Lesson 13 – ASSEMBLY – Insert Parts and Fix
57:16 Lesson 14 – ASSEMBLY – Group Components
59:17 Lesson 15 – ASSEMBLY – Mate Connectors
1:08:20 Lesson 16 – ASSEMBLY – Replicate
1:09:31 Lesson 17 – ASSEMBLY – Final Mates
1:12:21 Lesson 18 – ASSEMBLY – Changes to Components
1:14:36 Lesson 19 – Export to .STL
1:16:06 CONCLUSION to the Stirling Engine Step-by-Step Tutorial

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[mirkok]

Maybe the best CAD tutorial I‘ve ever seen. Thank you so much

[lily-fflb]

You are my absolute hero for my final project in pltw IED👏

[heatherryan]

In all honesty, I probably learned more in the first 5 minutes of this tutorial than I have I the last 6 months of trying on my own. And I love the way that when you clicked on a surface, for example, you drew a square or a circle around it so we weren’t left sitting here trying to figure it out on our own. And thank you for going over those keyboard shortcuts in the beginning, I think those are going to come in handy a lot.

[aL_]

Awesome tutorial, Toby is by far the best teacher on the onshape channel. Onshape, get this guy back!

[OZtwo]

Thank you for this video. I just may move on from FreeCAD to give me true power of my 3D Printer!

[denisjovic]

Thank you TTT!

This type of content that I'm looking for. There are so many great but more simplistic tutorials about Onshape out there.
However, learning about this type of mechanisms and how to fully build them is rather rare. Coupled with your usual great way of explaining makes it just so valuable to me.

As a side note, because you've mentioned twice to not accidentally auto-constrain to a mid-point: If you sketch a geometry, be it a line or anything else, if you keep "shift" pressed it will disable auto-constraints all together. This often comes in handy when you have a lot of geometry and it becomes hard to not auto constrain to anything.

[HuubvG]

Here is also a 70+ year old who is learning to the fullest.
At my own pace, that's why I set the speed to 0.75, so I can keep up.
By the way, your voice doesn't sound lower, you just talk a little slower, haha.
Seriously: I can't say you're the best because I haven't tested them all yet.
But for me this is a very educational tutorial, with the PDF, the video and Onshape itself on my desktop I learn it step by step.
Great!

[kenhaley]

Toby, you are an amazing teacher!

You have obviously put an considerable amount of work to produce this video, its companion pdf, and the OnShape project itself. But, in addition, your method of teaching is great.

Other tutorial videos for complex software tools (such as GIMP, Adobe Studio, Inkscape, etc.) tend to simply go through all the tools and menu options, explaining what they do, etc. If you have a good memory, you'll know which one to use where when you work with the software yourself.

Your approach is different, and so much more effective: You first show the need to do something, and then you describe the tool or option that satisfies the need. For me (at age 77) I know I will remember so much more of what you've demonstrated in this one video. I'm new to OnShape, and I'm so glad I found your channel. I followed this build all the way through, and learned a lot. I'll be looking forward to more.

Thanks for all the work you put into these videos.

[thomashamdorf]

Thank you for this nice tutorial.
It was very interesting to see how things could be done in Onshape.
Unfortunately i could not find the pdf.
Some lessons i had to watch again and again until i realized what you are doing.
In the end i finished all the lessons and it works fine.

[TBooneFisher]

your explanation of mate connectors was particularly great and a LOT better than others I have watched.
Only one suggestion, the upper left video inset of your face is a nice personal touch. However it takes away from the resolution of your drawings. Not a problem for me since I can view the video on a large 4K monitor. However many viewers cannot making it harder for them to see the details of what you are doing.
-TBoone👍👍👍

[georgehyker]

Great tutorial. How to use the different connectors is a game changer for me.

[jacekwodecki]

Toby, as many people said: you are an amazing teacher. I am a total noob to CAD, I am just starting now, and I chose Onshape as it is browser-based and free. Your tutorials are clear, informative, easy to follow and overall great for beginners. Regarding this stirling engine - I first watched the walkthrough, and then built this based on the pdf, not watching the video, and it was so great to work with. You made me love CAD vs CAD tournaments and CAD overall. I don't need it for work, but thanks to you I decided to start learning CAD just because it is an awesome skill. Thank you for all your good work. Cheers from Poland :)

[samuelgordon]

Gotta agree with the others. I learnt so much from that tutorial. Excellent work.

[krehm]

This was SO MUCH FUN!!! A really great video, you are a great teacher, can't wait to do more of these.

[TheFreerunner]

This type of tutorial is perfect. An advanced tuturial with "best practices" would be great too. If you do tutorial like this, but with projects of increasing complexity to show every tool, i will watch every video.

[maikbollhorn]

Great, learning from you. This is a great idea, teach more projects like this.

[clausjepsen]

Thanks. That is the best tutorial I have seen. Very professionel and not too slow or too fast, easy to follow. I am a fan.

[peterbasista]

Thank you for your viadeo. ES briefly demonstrates many useful practices and tips for working with Onshape. I find this new format very informative and would like to see more of it. Greetings PeterThank you for your viadeo. It briefly demonstrates many useful practices and tips for working with Onshape. I find this new format very informative and would like to see more of it. Greetings Peter

[jamiemacdonald]

Looking forward to watching this when I have a chance. I was hoping to see something in greater depth like this from Toby. Thanks Onshape.

[jccom]

Many cool tips I learned in this one. "Spacebar" my favourite
And i always wondered how you get variables across different part studios. Haha it was so simple.

I am a big fan of assemblies and the edit in context feature and that gets very powerful and interesting.

Onshape provides many solutions to do the same task with different methods. There is no right way just many ways And every project you slowly expand your skills and feature sets.