I was given an Ender 3 Pro last week and after a few bumps managed to successfully CAD, slice and print a booster seat for my phone. The caddy as it was would grab the volume down button on my phone, this little wedge solves the issue!
Way to go! What material did you use? I ask because, where I am, many common printable materials would deform and melt in a car. As much as I’ve wanted to make things like this.
In summer you might just find a PLA part in a puddle on the floorboards. XD hahaha (Hyperbole, but you get me.)
Printed a sun visor extension out of PLA in my early days of printing. Had to run out to my car at like noon to grab something and it was deformed and droopy and could be reshaped as easily as a piece of leather… I learned a lesson that day, lol.
I printed a test piece (something much smaller) out of PETG to see if that would handle it. It would not, also got soft and sloppy after a couple of hours in the car.
Just PLA, I’ve only had the printer for a week. It will make it though the winter but I’m not sure about the rest of this summer.
Is that a stick I see in the background? 👀
Great job on your first designed part! That fitment looks pretty spot on. It’s such a great feeling to be able to take something from “hmm I wish I had something that did this” all the way to “here’s the thing!” It’s an addictive process that causes me to invent far more issues to solve than is really necessary.
Yup, 2010 B2500.
I plan on cranking out replacement and upgraded parts for it now that I got the stringing under control.
Is that really not common? I’m in the U.K., and <30% of cars might be auto, when I look at used car sales these days.
In the US around 1% of sold cars have a manual transmission. I think it’s as rare to see a manual in the US as it is to see their dumbass huge fucking pickup trucks in Europe.
Wow. I think the big changeover here will be the electric vehicle. By default they’re auto and will determine the future of transmission type as they become more common. We also have a culture of passing the driving test in a manual, so that you can drive both. An automatic driving license does not allow us to drive manual vehicles.
When we visited Europe a number of years ago I had to learn stick and we all practiced quite a bit because renting an automatic wasn’t reasonable. It’s actually pretty hard to find a manual to learn on and not all learner agencies even have one.
Same here in poland. Automatics are and have been getting much more popular though over the years. I have ditched a manual for my daily a long while ago. Many people I know now never learned to drive a manual, or did learn but then drove automatics and are afraid they don’t remember how to stir the oil manually.
That’s great first issue to solve, I love the way it fits!
Thanks, I ended up using a photo to get the profile into FreeCAD. It’s not a friction fit but with the phone in place it’ll never move.
Can you expand on this? You can import a photo into freeCAD?
You can import an image to an image plane using the Image Workbench then scale it. After that it can be shown or hidden like any other part of your design so you can just trace over it.
Interesting. I’ll look into that. Learning CAD has been a real barrier to getting good use out of my printer.
I highly recommend investing in some calipers, even a cheap <$10 set to start.
I have an old set of vernier calipers that got me all of the non-curved measurements.
It’s been years and I still hasn’t even crossed my mind that I should upgrade from my $7 calipers.
I upgraded from my cheapo set for 10 micron precision, since I’m reaching that scale with some of my fabrications.
That’s awesome!! What are you fabricating with that you need that precision? Also what are you making?
Parts for a thing. Don’t want to spoil the surprise just yet.
Any recs?
Not specifically. I spent $30 on a metal one on Amazon that seemed to have good real reviews.
Great work. This is how you really unlock the potential of your printer!
I love functional prints like this!
It’s so satisfying to design and print stuff like this. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it!
