Provide adaptable interfaces that permit several sizes styles or lengths of screw.
Snap fit design for sheet metal.
While in the past injection molding has been the only viable method for producing snap fit joints in plastics 3d printing opens up new opportunities and challenges in their design.
If high strength is not an issue and it usually is not in a snap fit application design for hardware store type fasteners readily available to the home mechanic.
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An annular snap fit using inflexible material such as stainless steel or aluminum will require a yield point in the ring.
Aluminum 5052 aluminum 5754 copper c110 stainless steel 304 stainless steel 316l steel 1018.
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Allowing that any ring you can design will be a non zero thickness cross section of a cylinder the resulting item will resist compression internal snap component or will resist stretching external snap component and require excessive force to assemble.
Because sheet metal products have a history of being designed by the guy who actually does the work on the floor sheet metal products think hvac ducting as well as the lockers in your gym tend to be excellent examples of design for assembly especially when looking at self locating parts which reduce assembly errors.