February 22, 2022
Description
This is an extremely large print for (2012) Audi A3 owners (maybe other Audi's as well) to drop into the two-stage cup holder size we have.
207.50mm (X) × 200mm (Y) × 217.40mm (Z). It's off-center 7.5mm to move it slightly toward the armrest, away from the shifter.
The cup holder situation in my car is enough to hold 2 normal-sized 16.9 oz bottles but not much more. It's more like a normal cup holder and a half because the second one is about half the size and depth. This aims to solve one problem, and that's to add one massive cup holder so I could fit my large Costco 64oz insulated water jug. I've also been using this as a little junk container too, to hold my phone, the rest of my keys, & loose change.
The first photo is of the bottle and cup holder. I had not yet removed the internal supports. The second photo shows it right as it finished the print. I have also included two spacers for some of my other bottles.
I printed this on my CoreXY (Creativity Elf, sorry I don't own a Prusa… yet) in PETG to avoid melting in the summer heat.
I printed with the following configuration:
0.6mm nozzle
240°c
50% fan
0.3mm layer height
70mm/s
3 perimeters
15% infill
Supports
This took me 17 hours 12 minutes to print.
I suppose if you trust your printer not to knock your prints over at height, you could bypass the supports and print upright instead of upside-down; maybe a fat brim would help?
Lastly *I designed this a while ago so I had to purge my Fusion 360 files to make room… unfortunately I don't have anything but the 3mf files.*
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial — Share Alike
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