3D printed Bridge Abutments using Tinkercad

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3D printed Bridge Abutments using Tinkercad

Post by GAP » Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:28 pm

I am repairing an area where the baseboards have sagged by building embankments and bridges to raise the track to level.

For the bridge abutments I used builders vinyl moulding, for the piers which will hold the aluminium track support beams I designed them in Tinkercad and 3D printed them.

To give a bit of character to the bridges I decided to make some veneers to attach to the abutments to give a stone look.
They were drawn using Tinkercad, the stone texture design came from the shapes library.

The stone wall (search "stone wall") is for a castle but I just cut the crenellations off.
There is another without mortar found by searching "brick wall"

This was my first foray into using Tinkercad to design something that actually worked, so a big learning curve was involved.

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Stone veneer
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Veneer detail
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Vinyl abutment
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Abutment with veneer
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Piers
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Re: 3D printed Bridge Abutments using Tinkercad

Post by FWLR » Thu Apr 27, 2023 7:42 am

Thats really well done Graeme. I have tried to do something similar, but it always ends up looking like the bricks and stone work is full of gaps in the mortar or the brick/stone overlap.

Looking forward to more on the abutments. :thumbright:

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