Log Another take on a Custom ITX Case

[visualtech48]

Hello good folks,

Once more me and my brain thought of making yet another ITX case, however, this time, I went all in on making the actual fan inlet the centerpiece of it, and making a version that is 100% 3d printable. Not only that it was centred on having 0 screws that are visible on the outside.

For my own use I laser cut acrylic panels but besides that, you can make your own yet again as this is not a commercial product, rather me showing that, well, everyone can do it and I hope you do.

Files on Printables: https://www.printables.com/model/1255083

For the specs here, they don't really matter as I made it for lightweight documents, however, I made sure that the case can take a dual slot, LP GPU, here I use the RTX 3050 LP for reference, and can support up to 2 SSDs, and a FLEX PSU.

I'm more than welcome for more critique and looking forward to sharing this one. Cheers!

 

[ignsvn]

Build log, complete with video. On a rotating display stand.

Dude

No critique, and perhaps can you share some pictures if you have? And maybe some story on the build experience? Like what are the things that not common, or unusual that you need to take note during the build process? 3D printer & their settings etc?

 

[visualtech48]

Build log, complete with video. On a rotating display stand.

Dude

No critique, and perhaps can you share some pictures if you have? And maybe some story on the build experience? Like what are the things that not common, or unusual that you need to take note during the build process? 3D printer & their settings etc?

Thanks a lot @ignsvn !

Sure thing, the biggest challenge was I think the placement of all components at the beginning and making sure that I was in the middle middle.

My design at the start had an idea of movable brackets to accommodate left and right and top and down for the motherboard, but since I use the one I have at hand, I went with a fixed system.

Due to the nature of the pieces, it is actually really not difficult to alter where we sit so the CPU cooler would be the in the middle, it is just a slight adjustment to the motherboard pieces, and altering the IO shield a bit.

Besides that, I've used as always, my RatRig IDEX 4, to print all of the pieces for it because its a prototyping beast.

What was uncommon in this is actual the magnets are drilled, they had to be small as the taper on the drill bit for the drill has that little point, that actually helped but anything larger would mean the point is larger and I'd trill throughout.

For images, I'll share some tomorrow, its 2am here atm, and I'm soon off to sleep.

Hope this gives some insight to anyone.

 

[visualtech48]

I'm just posting a few images: