u/shawnikaros

Blender knower and Fusion apprentice here!

I started working this with geonodes in Blender, the parametric shape was pretty simple to do with a sine wave, but everything else is really hard. So I switched to Fusion since I have to learn it anyway.

I'm trying to recreate this knob with parametric properties, I can make one from scratch with correct dimensions, but I'm completely stumped on how to do this parametrically. I'd like to be able to control how many and how large the teeth are, everything else I think I've figured out.

I've tried creating a cylinder shape and controlling the amount of teeth/notches with a property via circular pattern, but that feels clunky and doesn't really work properly, I've tried looking at how to make gears but all of tutorials just point to the add-in which doesn't help.

Ideally i'd have the editable shape at sketch phase, so I could just fuse the sketches into a solid shape.

Any tips?

Edit: Thank you everyone! A lot of good suggestions and tips!

Hey, I'm curious to hear people's experiences selling their pieces, I've been struggling to move my table for 180€ and just dropped it down to 160€ in hopes of a quick sale. The price is nowhere near reflecting the amount of work that went into it, but it is a prototype with a few hidden mishaps and I would have preferred to sell it fast.

I suspect it's more about where I'm selling it than it is about the quality. I only posted in on my country's marketplace and I think facebook marketplace would likely be the place to actually sell it.

The question is more aimed at hobbyists than professionals, but feel free to answer even if you do this for a living.

Completely made of birch!

Top is stained with water based stain and coated with lacquer.

Made a saw guide in Blender and 3D printed it for the tricky angles.

I've been wanting to make one for ages, finally have the space necessary to do stuff like this :)

Up for sale if anyone is interested, preferably in EU since posting to US is still a mess.

I won this ukulele at a gamedev event which had a rocksmith competition, now as years have passed there was some damage (from poor manufacturing) which had rendered the ukulele unplayable.

I had a short apprenticeship at a master luthier's workshop, so I figured I'd fix this up, but instead of fixing it "properly", thought it would be more appropriate to modify it to fit it's origins, and the game I thought was Fallout. So with that in mind it gave me some some parameters to work with, only stuff that I could find, preferably something you'd recognize as another object and nothing new (except for the strings, which half are new and half from the trash).

I ultimately decided to not add decals because I felt the ukulele was already looking a bit busy, but those are easily added later if I ever change my mind of stumble upon some I don't have to order from worlds away :)

It's now properly serviced and plays better than it did new, despite the looks!