Upgrading My Car with 3D Printing!

The perfect way to use wasted space in my tiny car.


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[matijsbrs]

Hi nice video! Simple trick I use in stead of taking a photo is to scan the template. Instant correct sizes and no parallax.
Keep it up like your work.

[Adam_Holmes]

Another idea for the TPU flap pieces:

Design the flaps with mechanical hooks on BOTH sides. Then while the PETG cup is printing, put the TPU pieces in the slots, and let the rest of the cup print over the TPU. That way they're mechanically locked in place, and they can never come out!

[win]

Print a lid for the back pocket that has a round hole in fourth cup holder.

[juweinert]

2:50 My new old gem: scanners!
They give you a super high resolution photo that is already at scale, meaning you need no calibration and have greater accuracy.

[matthewwojcik]

New favorite printing channel. I love 3d printing functional parts they are by far the most satisfying things you can make. That cup holder was a prime example. If you end up redoing this print bc of the glue or the flaps you should make the cup holder walls screw on and off and then it would make cleaning the cup holder super easy when crumbs and stuff settle at the bottom.

[vladimirkravchenko]

Amazing!
Another approach for the flaps:
Make them go all the way through and make them rotated T-shape, so it will be way easier to glue

[d.dizzy]

I learned more from this man making a cup holder in 15 minutes than my CAD teacher over two years.

[grhairy]

I would love to see more "solutions" in the car! As soon as you started talking about what you were doing I felt like this whole other area I hadn't even thought about opened up. Especially if you do something in a friend's car and we get to see their excited reaction too!

[kingkazuma]

I would be intereastead in a followup short or video on how the print held uo in the car on a hot summer day dose it melt, disform excetra or holds up fine

[mxkqp]

It's really nice to see the effort you put in your content and how it make viewers try to be more creative in their life

[mlem]

Hope it doesn't get too annoying with the handbrake. Honestly thought you were going to pull the plastic casing off, cut a hole in it and print something so the holder could be recessed in like the other two. Though that would've been pretty involved.

Great video!

[MikeScalora]

PETG doesn't stand up to our summer car temps here in Utah, I use ASA instead. I've had a ASA sun shade in the car for two summers and it is great, PETG stuff I tried got soft.

[Dominguezangel]

You definitely make me want to get a 3d printer the more I watch your channel

[PandaPeej]

You could add a pin hole in the tpu flaps, pause command before the print would bridge over it, put the flaps into your print, and something like a piece of petg filament as a pin into it, then the print continues over, sealing it in, leaving a seamless look. Or just drill a hole in the existing print to do the same thing as a retro(fix)fit

[tc]

So, if you were to re-do the cupholder and change the flap-slots to through-slots (through-mortices?), having the sides taper from outside to inside would keep the flaps from trying to pull through the slot into the cup area.

[MentalPolution]

I love this video so much. I've learned at least 2 new things from watching you do this and I 3d print prototype parts almost as often as you. Thanks very much for sharing your process.

[jkrules]

Thanks for this video its helped me learn some out of the box thinking like how you got the curves done with the piece of paper

[CODAdventures]

I love the fusion part of the video, if you have a course or some other tutorials for fusion 360 please post a link to it

[OODZUTSU]

I thought you were going to build something that had a base that fits into the 2 existing cupholders but has a top that could hold more and maybe extend through to the back for 2 cupholders for the back passengers

[northtustinsteamworks]

Try using lightning infill and extra wall thickness. Saves HOURS of printing time!