Fairphone Manifesto with supported overhangs

universalist · 2014-11-15T11:58:20.000Z

I’m a bit of a perfectionist and found the overhangs (and/or how my slicers deal with it) with my Fairphone cases rather annoying,

Therefore I modeled some supports into this Fairphone case, using Blender.
First tests show significant improvenments over normal (unsupported) prints.
Even better results should be possible with further refinements (if you’d like to)

If you’d like to work with it, I’ve attached the Blender file I’ve created. It’s in “manifesto-supported Blender.zip.stl”, which is actually a disguised Zip-file (sorry 3Dhubs for cheating).
Manifesto_case-supported.stl (15.7 MB)
manifesto-supported Blender.zip_.stl (9.26 MB)

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universalist · 2014-11-15T12:00:59.000Z

Almost forgot - this is how it looks.

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Brian · 2014-11-16T15:59:07.000Z

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

rioprintocom · 2014-11-16T16:39:33.000Z

Thanks for sharing! Great!

gabriela3d · 2014-11-17T13:08:20.000Z

Nice, thanks for sharing, @universalist! I’m sure that hubs dealing with Fairphone prints will appreciate this. Am I right, @makersaffair, @GloomySparker, @gregh, @key23d, @Didier_2, @Joerg_4 or @Spreadform? Cheers

Didier_2 · 2014-11-17T13:43:02.000Z

Nice work thanks for sharing

key23d · 2014-11-17T14:12:55.000Z

Thanks @universalist for the good idea, your work and sharing! I will check it out when I found some time !

Unfortunately there are 10 designs.

Kind regards, Guy

Joerg_4 · 2014-11-17T14:19:00.000Z

@universalist really nice, thank you for sharing it

@gabriela3d thanks for informing me about this thread

Cheers,

Joerg

GloomySparker · 2014-11-17T14:51:54.000Z

Thanks for the share @universalist. In fact, I really don’t have overhangs problem with Fairphone cases and my Replicator2. Pretty happy with overhangs in general.

My problem with Fairphone cases is more about retraction and finishing.

One more point, I use Simplify3D, which is pretty simple to use when dealing with overhangs. You can just set automatic settings depending on angle and length, but you can also place / remove supports just with one click.

Filemon · 2014-11-18T08:32:26.000Z

Sweet! Been having the same issues, this looks like it’ll solve, cheers!

makersaffair · 2014-11-18T11:05:39.000Z

@universalist @gabriela3d Thank you! This is very helpful

gregh · 2014-11-22T01:00:32.000Z

Great idea, thanks for sharing.

gregh · 2014-11-22T01:00:37.000Z

Great idea, thanks for sharing.