Today, let's make a fox face bottle opener ring with the wrench tool in the
back. This ring is cast in steel. Let's get started!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Since it's a Thanksgiving (Today) I'm going to
give away this ring file at the end of the video. So stay till the end of the video
I'll show you how to get this file, and where to send for printing. Starting with
this file, you can use any type of animal head online to making the bottle opener
There is some tricks to get it correctly. So let's go ahead to find the image that
we want first. You can go to the Google just typing any type of animal that you
would like to have. I'm just typing fox head
clipart, and you can pick the simple one. What we need to have is just
the outline, so pick any of the outline that you think will help you to identify
what type of animal. Let's bring in this picture using the command "Picture"
and let's go to the top view, we're going to trace this picture right here.
So let's use the "Control Point Curve" and you can go ahead to trace. You don't have
to trace all over, we just need to have the head and also we just need to trace
half of it. so I'm going to the new layer coming
here. Make the layer into the red color. So it's easier to see and you can have
it stop where your think is over the half of them, and they also want to trace
the ear
and also the nose
Alright and I also want to draw a line to show where approximately I think the
center line should be. So I'm gonna draw a line there. Holding my SHIFT (key) and
having this line moving down a little bit, and go ahead to trim anything
over the center line. So now we have that. We don't need the rest of it, the
eyes or anything. Again depends on your design. I'm going to
hide this one first. Now we also need to trim this area off, because
we want to just have our line there, and we do want to have everything as a
little bit rounded, so I'm going to use the command "Fillet Corners", and I want to
give it the fillet for radius 1, and also fillet here and here. So make
everywhere rounded. Now we are done we are going to mirror to the other side
right there, and you want to make sure the top is nice and round. The bottom one
is going to be covered by the nose, so it doesn't really matter, but you just want
to make sure the top is nice and rounded. and let's go ahead to join them. I'm
going to make this ring size very big because it's a man's ring and so the
diameter is going to be 22.2 which is almost like 13 in the size
and plus it's gonna casting in steel so I'll shrink a little bit, so I don't want
it to be like too small, and it is a huge ring, by the way, so let's go ahead to
make it into a ring. Let's go ahead and use a rectangle tool, and I'm going to
make it very wide like 19. The thickness that's make it into 2.85
so that's the ring that we have, we want to move this ring from the midpoint to
the quadrant, and now we also want to run off the corner first. so let's use the
command "Fillet Corners", and let's pick it up for radius 0.5 to make it
into the ring. All we need to do is go to the Surface- Sweep One, and you want to do
rail and cross section. Now we need to put the fox face. Move it from the
center line and let's type in "0", so it's right there at the zero
point, and we can move it up a little bit. now to decide how big this face
should actually work for the cap, we need to understand how big the cap is. So you
can go online to find a cap size or you can just open the refrigerator get one
beer out of your refrigerator and measure it, and then you can model
something really simple like this. This is just for our reference to see if that
will work. If we go ahead and go to Extruded Planar Curves- Straight. You're
going to notice that it is gonna be really sharp edges, especially when it is
meet on the intersection right there. So it doesn't look good because
it's too sharp over there. What we can do instead of extrude straight, we are
going to extrude it. Solid- Extrude Planar Curve. Instead of going straight
that we want to go Taper. you can taper into the sides that will go along with
this maybe the egg the degree is not enough. maybe I wanted to do 30 degree so
you will have something like this. Notice that when you extrude it
it's almost like 3d scale and then so it's it's like too big right now for the
top. What you can also do is you can do 1D scale back. That way I will fit
inside of a ring, and again what we are looking at is where the intersection
is so if it is too big for you just go ahead to scale it down like that.
We need to do a test just want to make sure that everything is working.
Especially if that fit into the cap. Let's do a test first, and see if that
working. Let's go ahead with "Boolean Difference" this out of this one,
and we will get this cut right there. We want to tilt it a little bit
and we want to get inside of it. What you wanted to see is you
don't want that the edge is touching if the edge is touching that means the
piece in the center you should go a little bit wider. That means you need
to go 1D scale a little bit more like this way. You want to judge in between
where there is the shape is that still maintain the form of the Fox. Things like
that. We want to get this one in a little bit there, and make sure that see
this is much better it's not gonna touch so we can do one more test by "Boolean Difference"
We can make this cap get in you don't have to have a whole cap
get in you just need to have a partial of it, especially when we have the nose.
With this curve, let's go to Solid- Extruded Planar Curve- Straight, and then
we'll get something like this. You don't have to have it really long because in
the bottom here, it should catch the cap edge, but it does need a little bit bigger I
gotta move it here or if you want to move it out that will be fine okay
Maybe that's stick (out) too much. We want to scale it down a little bit
something like this. Okay now when we look at this, it's really sharp out there
so we wanted to do is Fillet the edges, and I want to fillet
like 0.8 millimeter. It should work. So you may
end up this all the time, sometimes. It's because the little things right there.
You see that there are two seams right there, and unless you're doing the
the fillet is smaller than this seam, otherwise, you're always gonna get a
result like this. So I'm going to go back to the stage right here.
You can see that we have a seam there. To fix this issue, you're going to
delete these, and that will fix the seams. You will no longer to have that seams and
you're just gonna have it coming back a little bit or coming in a little bit to
get to the original shape. Maybe this too. I need to have them coming out a little
bit. L's do one more time, we are going to extrude it straight and
then we are going to make it bigger, moving out here, maybe going a little bit
Let's take a look how this fillet will work. Let's go ahead to use
the Fillet we used. The same radius for 0.8. Now it's working,
Uh....now it's not working because 0.8 is too big over there. So I'm
going to lower down 0.5 and let's try 0.5 here alright so now it's
working fine. It's great that opportunity, I can show you
how to fix that fillet issue. We got the front done, and try one more
time and try to rotate this and see if I catch some time as you can see it's
catch right there, so you kind of need to manipulate multiple times to get what you want.
In the back of the design, I'm going to have some hexagons right
here, so I'm going to snapping in.... to turn on the Grid Snap. Snapping any point, I
type in six us my number, and I can make it like this, and you can gradually
changing the size down or you can find out what is the standard size and
use that standard size to do this. I'm gonna simply make three
just showing you how to do it, but you can make it prettier, if you like to
With this I'm going to select all of them and just trim off whatever
in the middle and then hit ENTER and join them, so this is what the wrench is
going to be, so you can lock three different sides of the nuts over there.
What we're gonna do again we're gonna move this to the center, so let's use
the Center Center, snapping into thT zero and that will be there. this one since we
don't have to worry about the cap so we might able to just go ahead to use
extrude straight and again you can extrude it in the angle if that works better for
you but I'm just gonna use the straight at the bottom tool right there. so that
is the opening for that. this is a basically a trial you need to tweak a
little bit because the ring size different it's going to change a lot of
diameter right there. I would like to send you a STL printing file for my
gift to thank you being fans and writing the comments. You can print this
ring in shapeways if you're in the USA you can print in the shapeways they have
all different kind of a materials. This ring has been proof in working I was
printing in steal they come in different
colors, so you have the choice to a black color, brown silver bronze, gold color, and
nickel color, so those colors will enhance the personal preference. All you
have to do is leave the comment. Let me know where you're from. You can type
your city and your country. I have people coming from all over the world, that's
really amazing knowing where you're from. I'm in Detroit in USA, so like I can
type it "Hi from Detroit USA", and also subscribe my news later and I will send
you an email with this file here. I promise I won't send you junk only good
stuff from me. Thank you for watching and happy holiday. I'll see you next.