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Hi guys,

A little while ago someone crashed into my motorcycle and damaged some body panels. I’ve googled around a bit, but I can’t find anything about 3d printing parts like that. Since I prefer unique stuff over generic design, and duplicating original parts seems redundant, I was thinking about designing my own panels. Since it’s hard to precisely model the points where the panels connect to the frame, I think it might be easier to use a somewhat flexible material.

Do you have suggestions on choice of material, and thoughts on the project itself?

Please and thank you;)

Olivier

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I think for this application, polycarbonate is a preferred material, or nylon as a second option. You might have to print the panels in multiple parts and fuse them together if they’re too big so you should take that into consideration as well. The hardest part would probably be the design itself to get the right dimensions, tolerances, etc. especially since you want to make custom parts. This is definitely doable though. Good luck.

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Thanks for your feedback! I was thinking about fusing multiple parts as well, and since I’m indeed kind of weary about the margins and dimensions I’m leaning towards building panels out of a lot of smaller components to allow tweaking / customizing “on the go”. More or less like how you build a house out of Lego’s. Ideas (/links) on flexible “connectors” between non-flexible components anyone?