Overall, I'm pretty happy with this first print.
It looks perfect from most angles and will work fine in practice, but the tolerances on the cover were too tight. You can see the bending here:
I've adjusted the model to compensate.
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This is a new rabbit hole I want to go down. I like the idea of running my own texting service.
Wait what is it exactly
It's a box that you can snap onto the stock Heltec v3 to hold a battery.
The stock case has a hole to run the wires through to connect a battery, but then the battery is just flopping around in the wind. It's a terrible case design, but if you didn't find that out until you bought the case... the snap on battery box FTW
Dr hax I'm impressed by your creations
Second print is done. Model is on point now. 🔥
I added explicit supports when printing the case and managed to break the case when trying to remove them. But that aside, the cover fits very nicely now.
If I was going to do it over, I would optimize for "zero supports needed". The part that attaches to the Heltec case would be flat on the bottom. The shell that would cover 5 sides of the battery would have pegs (on top when printing) that would snap into holes on that flat side of the other piece. Not sure if I'm explaining it well, but it makes sense in my head.
However, it's not worth it to me to re-design the case and print a couple more units. I only really needed one case for myself, and I already have two at this point. No sense in digging this hole any deeper. 😂
