We got a new rabbit hutch for Marshall to live in (at the pet boarding place) while we’re on vacation, but one of the corner brackets broke during assembly. I’m sure we could get a replacement part from the manufacturer (just checked, it’s only $0.69 in fact), but certainly not before we leave tomorrow. I took some measurements of the broken part, sketched it up in OpenSCAD, printed out three attempts with some tweaking in between and now we have a replacement part that is stronger than the original.
@Daniel_Carollo I think it’ll go that way. For now, I’ll clean up the file, upload it to YouMagine and clearly label it so the next person won’t have to start from scratch.
Well done. However I was wondering if the higher inner-lip will be an issue. I assume the manufacturer lowered it for some reason other than to pinch pennies.
You’d be amazed how far manufacturers go in order to pinch pennies @John-Paul_Hopman …
From the two photographs, there’s no obvious reason why the inner lip is lower than the outside one.
@John-Paul_Hopman I reinforced it in several areas over the course of the 3 iterations I printed. I suspect that the inside “lip” is lower to give the bun less to chew on (not as critical for the top brackets, but the same brackets are used for the top and the bottom). The original part was mostly weaker because of the cutouts between the clips/tabs, whether those were a functional design decision or a side effect of the injected molding process I can’t say for sure.
