A fun project built in Fusion - the Toothpaste Squeezer!

2026-05-07

A fun project built in Fusion - the Toothpaste Squeezer!

Channel: 3vdudes3d (10 subscribers)

This pick is the standout in a slate otherwise cluttered with hashtag-spam shorts and product showcases. The creator walks through a small but genuinely useful CAD project: a mechanical squeezer that rolls up toothpaste (or any soft tube) to extract every last drop. It's the kind of low-stakes design exercise that's perfect for learning Fusion 360 — small enough to finish in an afternoon, but with real mechanical considerations like roller fit, axle clearance, and how the tube feeds through the slot.

What makes it worth watching over the other candidates: the description links directly to the downloadable model on NexPrint, so viewers can print and modify it themselves rather than just admiring footage. Projects like this are excellent gateway builds — you see the full pipeline of idea → parametric model → printed object that solves a real problem, which is more instructive than yet another franchise model showcase.

The channel is tiny (10 subs) and the maker is clearly building a portfolio of practical Fusion projects, which is exactly the corner of YouTube worth supporting. Expect a casual rather than tutorial-style format, but the design itself is the lesson — study the part breakdown and the rolling mechanism.

Why watch: A practical, downloadable Fusion 360 project that demonstrates how simple mechanical CAD can solve real household annoyances.

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