Tile drilling jig 45 mm

A template for drilling round holes in ceramic tiles with a diamond core bit. The plate is glued to the tile, the bore holds the bit on the spot, so it does not wander when the cut starts. Made for a 45 mm bit that measures Ø48 mm over the diamond coating and Ø46 mm over the body.

Geometry

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• Square plate 90 × 90 × 15 mm (Ø50 + 20 mm on each side).
• Guide bore Ø48 mm through.
• Relief bore Ø50 mm, 6 mm deep, on the tile side, so the diamond band does not rub the jig at the tile surface.
• Centre marks: a 1 mm wide, 2 mm deep slot in the middle of each edge, full height. Line them up with the marks on the tile to put the hole where you need it.

Use

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Mark the hole centre lines on the tile, glue the jig on (double-sided tape) with the edge marks on the lines, drill through the bore. Drilling is dry, there is no water channel.

Printing

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Print as modelled: the tile side (with the Ø50 relief) on the bed, no supports — the step from Ø50 to Ø48 is only 1 mm.

Inside the SolidCraft project

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All sizes are user parameters with comments: S (side), T (thickness), D_guide, D_relief, H_relief, M_w, M_d (mark width and depth). Change one and the model rebuilds. The part description is stored in the design properties and goes into the 3MF metadata.

Files

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• tile-drilling-jig-45_3D_model.solidcraft — SolidCraft project
• tile-drilling-jig-45_3D_model.step — solid model
• tile-drilling-jig-45_3D_model.stl — for printing
• tile-drilling-jig-45_3D_model.3mf — for printing, with the part description
• tile-drilling-jig-45_drawing.pdf, tile-drilling-jig-45_drawing.png — dimensioned drawing (A3)
• tile-drilling-jig-45_iso.png — view

The same jig for a 68 mm bit: Tile drilling jig 68 mm.

License

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CC BY 4.0 — do whatever you like with it (copy, change, sell), just credit the original author: Eugene Vereshchagin (github.com/eugene-vereshchagin). See LICENSE.md.

Renders

Printing