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Nintendo Switch Back Replacement

Bryce Dixon avatarBryce Dixon

August 1, 2022

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I wanted to make a transparent back for my Nintendo Switch, so I measured and modeled a replacement for it.

Well, this took quite a bit of effort. I've never modeled anything this specific before so it took a few tries to get it all right (4 prototype prints, to be exact), but it was worth it in the end, I think!
It's definitely not perfect: there's no cover for the SD card slot since that's also the stand which I wanted to intentionally remove (seriously, who uses that anyway?) and the tolerances are pretty tight in some spots (namely the screw holes and little tabs that hook into the rest of the console). I'd like to make a V2 at some point, but I think this is a solid V1.

I would highly recommend printing this with a wide nozzle and large extrusions if making it transparent. I did mine with a 0.6mm nozzle at 0.24mm layer height and 0.8mm layer thickness using a transparent PLA. This allowed the layer count to be fairly low and the higher layer width led to lower refraction. I tried a transparent PETG as well since I wanted it to be durable, but the PETG ended up being far more opaque than I wanted.

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Creative Commons — Attribution

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