Despite Blender being complete overkill for this simple part, and the fact Blender isn’t well suited for designing mechanical parts anyway, a lot of people asked for a Blender tutorial.

Blender is one of the most popular open-source creative tools and, equally, one of the best. Whether you’re using Blender to render models for 3D printing, or you’re learning it as a new skill ...

In the first part of this tutorial, we took a look at the idea behind Blender – mesh editing – and how to interact with vertices, edges, and faces to make a thing.