Top-load BMX stem designs
CAD for top-load BMX stems: renders and an exploded view of my V1 stem, and a periodic lattice for a top-load stem, exported for 3D printing.
- Date
- May 2025
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- 1 photo · 2 videos
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Notes
The V1 stem (2024) is a four-bolt top-load BMX stem based on the Odyssey DGN. I went for a geometric look and tried a vanishing chamfer, after seeing a vanishing fillet on another stem; it wasn't easy to do. These are renders and an exploded-view animation.
In 2025 I made a periodic lattice for a top-load BMX stem. I imported the bodies, converted them to implicit, picked a graph unit cell, and combined them with Boolean unions and intersections. Then I meshed the body and exported a 3MF ready for printing.
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