3d part design with Inkscape and OpenScad #25- Barbed fittings

An easy way to design barbed fittings with Inkscape and OpenScad.

2 min read
By Bob
3d part design with Inkscape and OpenScad #25- Barbed fittings

In this next example I'm going to design an object with Inkscape and use the OpenScad rotate extrude module to make a barbed fitting for an aquarium air line.

First I made a rectangle the height and width of the inside of the fitting and centered it in the drawing area:

Next I used the bezier tool to draw an outline of the top half of my fitting:

Then I turned on the fill, turned off the stroke, copied and pasted it,  aligned the two sections and used "path>union to make it one piece:

You can draw both halves with the bezier tool and skip this, but for me it was difficult to make both halves exactly the same.

Then I converted the object to a path, added nodes and exported a dxf to OpenScad:

Click for a larger image

After printing the fitting out I decided I wanted it to be a little longer, so I scaled the "Y" axis a bit:

Click fo a larger image