Custom Bike Handle Bar Plugs

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Custom Bike Handle Bar Plugs

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Are you just tired of crashing on your bike and getting impaled by the sharp handle bars. If you are then this tutorial will be perfect for you, and if your not then this tutorial would be a great way to learn the basics of designing useful gadgets. Anyway, this is a tutorial on how to design your own handle bar plugs in Tinkercad.

Supplies

  1. Tinkercad
  2. 3d printer

Add and Rotate Cylinder

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Open up a new Tinkercad design and add a cylinder.

Rotate the cylinder. 90 degrees like in the picture.

Shape Thed Cylinder

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Shape the cylinder to the dimensions pictured above.

Copy It

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Make 3 extra copies of it.

Shape Cylinder 2

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Shape the second cylinder to the dimensions pictured above.

Shape Cylinder 3

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Shape the third cylinder to the dimensions pictured above.

Shape Cylinder 4

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Shape the forth cylinder to the dimensions pictured above.

Align

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Align the cylinders vertically and horizontally like in the picture above.

Add and Shape Box

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Add a box and shape it to the dimensions pictured above.

Align the Box With the Cylinders

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Align the box with the cylinders horizontally and vertically like pictured above.

Add Custom Text

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open up the text shape and type what ever you want in it, I just typed a question mark.

Rotate Text

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rotate the text like pictured above.

Align Text

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vertically and horizontally align the text with the first cylinder.

make sure to make the text smaller so it fits in the circle.

Engrave the Text

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Change the text to a hole and select both that and the first cylinder, then group them.

Group,rotate,duplicate,print

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Group all of the shapes together into one shape, then rotate it 90 degrees so the bottom is facing the ground, then duplicate it, and click download as .stl