Customizable iPhone Stencil Case

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Published on March 6, 2013
This thing can be customized with MakerBot Customizer! Open in Customizer

Description

This is a mashup of Benjamin's Stencil-o-matic thingiverse.com/thing:55821 and Makerbot's Customizable iPhone Case thingiverse.com/thing:40703 to create an iPhone case with any imagery you like.

First step is Benjamin's Stencil Factory chaaawa.com/stencil_factory.

Then "Open in Customizer" and paste in "input", adjust the other case settings, and you're ready to print!

Instructions

April 24 update: New version added with improved fit for the 4/4S and a taper feature to allow you to taper the walls of your case, improving grip. Also opening up all iphone size variables for tweaks. A number of smaller improvements are also included.

March 16 Update: Couple of changes in this version:
Integrated the code from Makerbot's geometric customizable cases here, so you can choose what type of case to generate.
Further tweaks on the phone sizing - should now fit better on iPhone 5

The first step is Benjamin's Stencil Factory chaaawa.com/stencil_factory. - detailed instructions are below.

Once you have the output of Stencil Factory ready, open this thing in Customizer and copy the output of Stencil Factory into the "Input" field.

Next, use the customizer parameters to select the correct phone model (iPhone 4/4s vs. iPhone 5), the case thickness, and any scale / position changes you want for your image.

Click save to STL and you're ready to print!

Note: The case tolerance field should only be adjusted if you've already printed and need to make fine adjustments.

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The following instructions are copied directly from Benjamin's Stencil-o-Matic:

Pic.1 Open the Stencil Factory and select your image (gif, png, jpg).
"Convert & copy", as its name suggests, also copies the output in your clipboard, so:
Pic.2 "Open in Customizer" and paste in "input".
Pic.3 "create STL", download and print.

Stencil Factory also available in .zip (with sources) for offline use.
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Would anyone happen to know the best tolerances for an iphone 4/4s? I have been printing a couple of these with varying tolerances and they don't seem to fit very well.

You have to go into the scad file and change the dimensions of the phone.

I've been playing with it and got it to fit quite well with:

4width=57.65;
4length=114.42;
4height=9.25;
4cornerR = 8.71;
4swidth=6.17;
4sthick=.8;

my height tolerance was 0 and perimeter tolerance was 0.85

any luck with this? printed one and it's only 2mm out. should the tollerance be lower to reduce size?

You can remove the last sentence in "Instructions".
Bridges are supported.
One more tool and you can draw whatever you want.