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!

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    5 months ago

    That’s great first issue to solve, I love the way it fits!

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      5 months ago

      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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      Yup, 2010 B2500.

      I plan on cranking out replacement and upgraded parts for it now that I got the stringing under control.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        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.

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          4 months ago

          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.

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            4 months ago

            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.

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            4 months ago

            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.

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    5 months ago

    I love functional prints like this!

    It’s so satisfying to design and print stuff like this. Thanks for sharing.

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    4 months ago

    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.)

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      4 months ago

      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.

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      4 months ago

      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.