Caliper Case

Hello my name is Isaac Angulo and i am a student at J.A.F and i have been doing Fusion 360 for about a year, and this is my caliper case. Recently i bought a caliper off of amazon and wanted to bring it with me on a trip to take measurements with but i soon realized that it would quickly break and instead of carrying it with me on hand i decided to 3d print a case for it. to clarify this Instructable could be used to make anything from a chainsaw case(you would need a lot of filament for it though) to a pencil case.

-3d Printer

-Quarter stl file

-Caliper(or other objects)

-Fusion 360

For step one you need the caliper or other object to take a picture along with another object to give you scale. For my project I made a caliper holder and I used a caliper and a quarter for scale. To make it easier to trace in the next couple steps pick a background with high contrast

This is the simplest step because all you have to do is send the image from your phone or webcam into fusion. First things first open fusion and open a new design. Then click on canvas as shown in the image above. Select the image you took in step one and press enter. It will prompt you to select the face you want to load the image on, click on the bottom face.

For step 3 you will scale the image using the reference object you included in the image in step 1 (in my case a quarter) and import a life size version into Fusion 360. if you are using a quarter i have included a life size stl in the supplies tab. next you will scale the image by right clicking it on the timeline and selecting edit. in the XY scale play around with it until you get the desired result.

This is the most difficult/time consuming step because you have to manually trace the caliper. First click on sketch and select the bottom face, click on poly line and start tracing the object. To make it easier edit the image and increase the opacity.

For this step all you have to do is make the box that will hold the the caliper. to do this just click on the solid tab and then click the create subtab and find the box option as shown in the image above. make the box whatever size you want as long as it fits the object. Make sure to make the height of the box at least 6 mm above the height of the actual object. For the caliper holder make the box 25 mm tall.

For this step all you have to do is click on extrude and extrude the traced object 1 or 2 mm above the height of the actual object to ensure it fits. for the caliper holder extrude it 20 mm

Open Tinkercad and open a new project. Import the file you made in fusion 360. Copy the dimensions of the project and paste it onto the box, and make the box a hole. Add 1mm to each dimension of the box. Duplicate the box and make the duplicated box 10mm taller and wider. align the 2 objects using the align tool in Tinkercad as shown above. merge the objects. That's it thanks for reading this Instructable!