3D Printing: Another Cup Holder Coming

[2ata]

Originally Posted by Stl-986

Like I said, I am all for new ideas. I go through about 200 rolls a year of material designing/printing various things. even printing at 100% infill I dont see this supporting a full can of soda without it breaking. The way you have it designed and being assembled the cup part will have too much downward pressure for the part you have going in the spaces. I would suggest at a minimum printing it as 1 piece instead of 2 at a minimum.

For my speaker brackets I designed for the dash I went through at least 80 different revisions before getting it to a point where it would work well. My rear speaker brackets were about the same and that was before printing them out in abs and nylon and testing those versions out.

STL-

I'm just getting into 3D printing. What's a good starter CAD for someone new?

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Originally Posted by 2ata

STL-

I'm just getting into 3D printing. What's a good starter CAD for someone new?

I'm pretty new to it too. I've done a few projects, with some decent success (a suction cup rearview camera mount for my Lotus; a mounting bracket to adapt a BMW removable cupholder for said Lotus; a replacement double din trim bezel for the Pioneer head unit in my Boxster; boxes for speakers and cupholders for our hot tub), but I'm far from anything but a novice at this point.

So far, I've been using Tinkercad online for design, and Cura for slicing. I'm sure I'll have to move on from Tinkercad before long as it doesn't seem nearly as capable as more complex pieces enter my wheelhouse. For starting out, though, it seems a good introduction, and it's free.