Print in Place Hinge in Fusion 360

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In this tutorial I go over a design technique to create successful print in place hinges in Fusion 360. We design and 3D a quick minimalistic phone stand but you can use this technique for a variety of projects. Enjoy!

[busivantiger]

Thanks very much - you teached me most of my fusion 360 skills. 😊

[makingwithanedj]

I love how that hinge popped off the spring steel and folded right up without any need to "coax" it. You really have that Prusa Mini dialed in!

[joemechanic]

Aside from the nice hinge design, being fairly new to Fusion, the tips you casually dropped during construction were the best part of this video. Thank you!

[siliconghost]

Very handy tutorial. I needed to do a print-in-place hinge and didn't realize how easy it would be. Your tutorial is perfect and makes total sense.

[jamiee]

The stand on our baby monitor broke so I've been playing around with the idea of printing a case for it that would act as a stand with a print in place hinge but thought it would be way too hard. You have made this look so simple and do-able. Thanks! I'm going to give it a go.

[WPGinfo]

Nice video! The Z-shaped line 2:26 is a very effective solution as it both separates the hinge parts and keeps thing vertically centered... neat!

[markustube]

That was an amazing approach! Maybe it's just me, but I was shocked that the press/pull operation created that rounded edge to match the "to" object. I mean it makes sense, but for some reason I wasn't expecting it to behave that way. Anyway, very nicely done... as always 👍

[noweare]

You seem to know the best approach to take to make the design flow easy. Maybe that comes with experience. I end up having way to many sketches in my design but I guess that doesn't hurt anything.

[ermaolaoye]

This thing is absolutely amazing!!!! It saved my coursework!!!!

[jeremymoller]

This was a great tutorial! Solidworks is all I've really used the last few years so this was a great example to show the layout and application of tools in fusion. I definitely need to print some print in place tests and dial in my printer and slicer settings too.

[AmirRachum]

Great tutorial, I used to to create some hinges myself :)
Straight and to the point. Thank you!

[SlaterTech]

This was great! I'm trying to design my first print in place assembly, and this provided a lot of useful info. Thanks for sharing!

[AM-jwlo]

Good Video. Since the gap isn't defined, you could have a pre video making a print test of gap settings. That way with one print people could determine what their printers can get away with. My printer gets stuck between .1 and .15 so I will use Fusion (and your method) to do a test 1.2 to 2.4 with 7 segments, like a fidget spinner and a hex key center to break them free.
Thanks

[waynefilkins]

I couldn't get it working for my 45 degree angel hinge project...just can't find a way to print it. I did apply it to another project though and made the entire hinge scalable. There are parameters for hinge length and diameter, and number of hinges. You put in these 3 params and the whole hinge scales. Couldn't have done it without this video though! This one, to teach this kind of hinges, and another one that teaches about parameters and a different type of hinges. It's amazing how much you can learn online, college is becoming far less useful.

[independent]

Excellent video, good pace, lots of new info for me.

[SooGuy]

That was very cool tutorial and easy to follow. Going to have to try it out. Any tips on making a hinge that only opens partially - meaning doesn't fold all the way back?

[davecrabbe]

Does this need to be printed flat? I’m thinking this won’t work if printed vertically (hinge is column that goes upwards). Did you ever try to print vertically to see what happens?

[totoffe]

Merci pour cette réalisation étant débutant de Fusion 360 j'ai pu réaliser mon premier support encore merci. Dommage que je sais pas réaliser un style de Voronoi avec cura

[robotwolf]

When I tried to dimension the line in Sketch 2 that's sitting on the x axis, I got a popup about over-dimensioning. My constraints are the same.

[johnbickford]

Just so you know YouTube is defaulting to 360p and as such the text in dialog boxes and menus are blurry. Still watchable, though.