3D printed Bridge Abutments using Tinkercad
Posted: 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.
Pictures tell the story better than me
Stone veneer
Veneer detail
Vinyl abutment
Abutment with veneer
Piers
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.
Pictures tell the story better than me
Stone veneer
- Stone Abutment.JPG (100.98 KiB) Viewed 2881 times
- Stone Abutment detail.JPG (102.91 KiB) Viewed 2881 times
- Bridge Abutment.JPG (106.91 KiB) Viewed 2881 times
- Abutment with Stone Veneer.JPG (107.28 KiB) Viewed 2881 times
- Bridge Pier.JPG (66.38 KiB) Viewed 2881 times
- Bridge Pier 1.JPG (72.14 KiB) Viewed 2881 times
