Nexus 5x Phone Case

A fairly basic case for Google's Nexus 5x phone. There's a few different designs on here (including another one of mine), but they all tend to be very flat to the surface of the phone, and don't provide much screen protection.

This model wraps more aggressively around the front of the phone, and to the curves of the phone. The upside is that it provides more protection -- both to the camera bump and to the screen and corners. The downside is that there's absolutely no way you can print it with PLA or ABS or any other rigid filament and get it on the phone. This really has to be printed with TPU or another flexible filament.

I suspect if you use your slicer to stop printing after the layer at 10.10 mm, it might fit on a phone even with PLA or ABS, but I haven't tried it. If someone does, and it works, let me know and I'll update this.

There are two models uploaded. The "Flat Bottom" version has thicker bottom edges. While the one that hugs the bottom curve prints fine in PLA, I can't get unsupported TPU to print at that angle, thus the flat version. Upside, though -- slightly more protection along that edge, I suppose. If you're some kind of printing magician or can print TPU with disolvable supports, that one looks better. But its really nearly impossible to print.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Prusa

Printer:

Rafts:

No

Supports:

Resolution:

.15mm

Infill:

Notes:

A couple notes -- I have printed this in both PLA and TPU without supports, but getting the bridges to print in TPU means having your settingsreally dialed in. If you don't want to waste filament discovering you can't, print some bridging tests and make sure your printer can do it, or use supports.

The print I'm using on my phone was printed with 3 top layers, zero bottom layers with a honeycomb infill to give a pattern to the back. You can print however you want for the look you want, though.

Category: Mobile Phone