![]() ![]() ![]() Also added rounding to the sides where they come close to buttons, to allow more room for fingers. Unfortunately the chamfer hit the top of the phone, and it didn’t fit well. 03c: New clip design that added a chamfer under them to provide print support, and on top to ‘soften’ them so they wouldn’t hook things, like my pocket.While the phone fit and clipped in, the clips themselves required support material which was hard to remove. These are simple cubes on the top L/R and bottom L/R sides. 03b : Creation of top clips to hold the phone in.Note I made the case half a mm taller and wider than the phone, and it seemed to fit perfectly. I wanted to make sure I had designed something that would fit the phone before I put any more effort into the details. 03a had no top clips: It’s just the base, sides, and required holes. This allowed me to compare the 3d phone to the 3d case to make sure everything lined up. Before I modeled the case, I modeled the phone to spec. Realized the way I modeled in prevented me from modifying it in a procedural way (still learning best practices of the software). 02 (not pictured, never printed) : Trying to fix 01.Failed not being deep enough, and the clips required print supports that weren’t generated, so their undersides bowed down blocking the phone. Had clips to hold the phone in on the top corners, and the bottom by the plug. Some days I’d iterate and print 3 designs. Over the course of several days I slowly refined my design, print after print. ![]() The ability for me to model something in 3d, and have a printed version an hour and a half later (for about 1$) is just amazing. It’s crazy to think that what I’m effectively doing is iterative product design. This gave me what I needed to begin authoring in the software. To get started I simply traced the phone on graph paper, then using my calipers measured all applicable distances for buttons and doodads: While I could have used that case as a starting point, I wanted this design to be ‘all my own’, so my usage of it stopped there. That is really what prompted me to design my own. But that case has a large clip that rubs right against my ear, and got painful on any call over 30 seconds. In fact my original plan was to print that case and be done with it. I first downloaded and printed this design from Thingiverse.
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