3d printing parts

Roach · Mar 17, 2015

I am new to the forum, just got my 08 Patriot a few days ago after the loss of my previous ride. With that aside, I am very active with 3d modeling and printing. I would like to open this thread up to ask:

1) are there any other owners here with a 3d printer?
1a) if so, what have you printed for your jeep?

2) for the rest, of you could have it printed, what you want printed (jeep related)?

TopangaPat · Mar 17, 2015

I have a 3d printer.. I started working on taillight grills but never finished it

Creation · Mar 17, 2015

Roach said:
I am new to the forum, just got my 08 Patriot a few days ago after the loss of my previous ride. With that aside, I am very active with 3d modeling and printing. I would like to open this thread up to ask:

1) are there any other owners here with a 3d printer?
1a) if so, what have you printed for your jeep?

2) for the rest, of you could have it printed, what you want printed (jeep related)?

I have access to a 3D printer, but could never figure out anything worth printing to spend time and money on to print.

bwpakk · Mar 17, 2015

Roof rail extensions!

TopangaPat · Mar 21, 2015

I made a grill badge today

MoJeepin · Mar 22, 2015

TopangaPat said:
I made a grill badge today

That's awesome. How much you gunna charge to make some more for the rest of us ?

sask_riot · Mar 22, 2015

In theory could someone 3d print an entire new grill for a patriot? That could get interesting.

TopangaPat · Mar 22, 2015

MoJeepin said:
That's awesome. How much you gunna charge to make some more for the rest of us ?

I guess for something similar I could make one for $25.

TopangaPat · Mar 22, 2015

sask_riot said:
In theory could someone 3d print an entire new grill for a patriot? That could get interesting.

I have been considering that but I'm going to try to focus on the design for the taillight guards I never finished

sask_riot · Mar 22, 2015

TopangaPat said:
I have been considering that but I'm going to try to focus on the design for the taillight guards I never finished

So it would work then? The plastic is still flexible enough to use for that purpose? I'm thinking of if some could make one with a spot for a light bar. Shorten the 7 slots either top or bottom. Bottom would be best, to stay under the height of the headlights.

Second crazy idea. What about wheel well liners that are flat for those that have done the pinch weld mod? I bet there would be interest for that.

TopangaPat · Mar 22, 2015

sask_riot said:
So it would work then? The plastic is still flexible enough to use for that purpose? I'm thinking of if some could make one with a spot for a light bar. Shorten the 7 slots either top or bottom. Bottom would be best, to stay under the height of the headlights.

I'm not sure if you mean flexible as in bendable or just the ability to design it for that purpose. At any rate I'm working with ABS plastic which depending on the thickness has some flex. Actually the grill badge I printed does flex to match the curvature of the grill from the tension I put on it with the mounting screws.

The bigger problem is that I can only print up to a certain size before I have to print in pieces and then join everything together. But for the grill I think the individual slots are small enough each to fit in the volume.

As far as mounting a light bar behind the grill .. I'm not sure how the lights would be mounted.

sask_riot said:
Second crazy idea. What about wheel well liners that are flat for those that have done the pinch weld mod? I bet there would be interest for that.

It's doable although it wouldn't be cheap because of having to figure out the shape. I'd have to scan the wheel well and then break the shape up into a number of pieces in order to print it out and then glue it all together.

But honestly for this kind of thing it'd be better to vacuum form a sheet of plastic.

MoJeepin · Mar 22, 2015

TopangaPat said:
I made a grill badge today

How did you attach it to the grill? Looks like just a few screws and a backplate?

TopangaPat · Mar 23, 2015

MoJeepin said:
How did you attach it to the grill? Looks like just a few screws and a backplate?

Yup.. I printed a backplate and used 2" bolts with wing nuts. It wasn't too hard to reach up from underneath and thread the pieces together and then tighten it up from the front.

Roach · Mar 23, 2015

TopangaPat, what printer do you have? Bed size, etc?

TopangaPat · Mar 23, 2015

Roach said:
TopangaPat, what printer do you have? Bed size, etc?

Makerbot Replicator 2x 9.7 X 6.0 X 6.1 IN

I've been thinking about buying or building a printer with a build volume of at least 12x12x12

Roach · Mar 23, 2015

I picked up a rigidbot big 12 1x 10 dual extruder on their kickstarter.

TopangaPat · Mar 23, 2015

Roach said:
I picked up a rigidbot big 12 1x 10 dual extruder on their kickstarter.

Interesting.. I've been pretty cautious about committing too much money to kickstarter projects.. how has the support been.. what do you use as a slicer / frontend?

Roach · Mar 23, 2015

I personally have had good service from the company (Invent-a-part). But the community is beyond amazing. We have a G+ community that is so knowledgeable and helpful for anything.
I use Cura currently.

vdigitalspain · Mar 12, 2023

i have one idea. I think a fender could be made in several pieces. I have searched the internet and I did not find any fenders to be able to homologate the separation of the wheels.

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