Thick iPhone 6 Case (Socket Case) (Iteration 1)

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See the newest version of this project here! (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2051675) See more of these projects on my homepage here! (https://www.thingiverse.com/Rubiks_Cubist/about) This is an iPhone 6 case with 5 hex sockets located at various places. Each side around the perimeter of the phone is 3 mm thick, and the back of the phone case is about 10 mm thick. The two in the center of the case are 1/4 and 5/16 in. The three at the bottom are 1/4, 5/16, and 3/8 in. I made this in Inventor, which has a unit of mm. Cura, or possibly other slicing softwares, naturally use mm as well. So when you input the STL it will be very small. So scale it to the following dimensions. The max X dimenstion is 72.97 and the max Y dimension is 144.14. However, the depth of the case is not correct and there is no mechanism holding the phone in the case other than possibly friction. Using a ninjaflex or semiflex material and decreasing the X/Y dimensions by .25-.5 mm may yield enough friction to hold the phone, but this has not been tested. Print Settings Printer Brand: LulzBot Printer: TAZ 5 Rafts: No Supports: No Infill: 20% Notes: Make sure you scale it to the proper size, see description for dimensions!! See my page for the further iterations of this design. Post-Printing This design printed semi-well, but has a lot of pulling and compression on the bottom side due to peeling during the printing process. I believe this was due to the thickness of the case, and corrected it in the next iteration. This print was really just a test to see if I made the camera hole big enough for the image not to be blocked or have plastic on the fringes of the picture. I accidentally printed this model about 5% too large because I did not input the correct dimensions into Cura when slicing, so the one in this picture is closer to the size of a iPhone 6 Plus case. How I Designed This I used Autodesk Inventor to make this design, and used 2 schematics that I found on Google Images that can be found here. (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/arr8215uvqb5ui5/AAAcxp7K8Z7l7q_B4LfcLZZ9a?dl=0) These images were used for all designs moving forward as well