3d printed a custom lamp mount for my 600d! (Designed it in sketchup, I haven’t tried anything more advanced yet)!
Sketch up is not bad. If your school offers a free download for solid works I would HIGHLY recommend that. I love it. There are other options that are free and great too.
i want sketchup or similar for google cardboard. 3D design in true 3D
I use TinkerCad BTW, a bit better and easier to use for 3d printing
what type of LED is that and how much Lumen and Watt does it have?
Ouch, that’s a lot of mass to hang from a hotfoot mount…
@Alexander_Pritchard @Griffin_Paquette I am looking for something a bit better, is solid works or tinkerCad much harder to use than sketchup? Or just as easy?
@Hakan_Evirgen It’s a 100w Led from ebay, about 7500 lumen. You can get them for about 6 euros I beleive.
@Mark_Fuller Yea, it is… But I’m hoping it will be ok, I mean if it’s too heavy I would have thought that my printed parts would break befour the camera mount…
@Mark_Rehorst I will check it out! Is it much harder to use than sketchup?
That tiny heatsink will not do for 100W of heat, especially not without a fan!
After all, it was designed to keep a 65W CPU cool with the fan running at full speed.
@Thomas_Sanladerer Shouldn’t there be a lot less heat than 100 W from a 100 W LED? Large portion of the energy should be radiated as light (as opposed to a filament light bulb).
Anyway, isn’t 100 W taking it too far for a DSLR light @seb_seb ? You will be blinding people, especially with the lens attached 
I mean 7500 lm is equivalent to what, 700 W filament bulb?
@Petr_Sedlacek the actual power that’s emitted as light is almost negligible, the best LEDs only reach ~25% “efficiency”, with the rest being turned into heat.
Considering that these 100W COB LEDs aren’t particularly efficient either, at about half to a third of the light output at the same power as a premium LED, it’s a good estimate to just calculate with the full rated power.
Solidworks definitely had a learning curve. It is the same software that NASA uses, but if you can get your hands on it its a great choice. I started using it two years ago and was frustrated at first having come from sketch up but now I wouldn’t even consider using anything else. It’s a professional grade software that can do amazing things. I think it’s definitely worth the learning curve. The whole Frankenbot was designed in it and just exported as stl files or to the laser cutter. No plugin required.
@Petr_Sedlacek @Thomas_Sanladerer It does generate alot of heat at 100w, and I would need a fan, but I won’t be running it anywhere near 100w so not to blind people and so not to require a fan.
@Thomas_Sanladerer Thanks Tom. I never googled the numbers and I was honestly expecting higher efficiency from LEDs.