Hello Everybody, I have just bought two 3D printable covers (one for my self and one for a friend). I had checked on the 3D hubs website for a printing hub near me prior to buying and was happy to see there was one close to my commute to work (Creat3D, Caversham, UK). However, when I followed the …

Hello, I faced the same problem : before placing the order, the nearest printer was about 50km from home, and after, it was 250Km … As I wanted to see the printer at work and have a chat with the printer, that was not very handy. I contacted the printer directly via 3DHubs. He downloaded a Fairpho…

Thanks Carine, I might try to do that, had you already bought your case via the Fairphone website then? All the best Eddie

I think that the reason that there are not local hubs is because the ones that are available have been through a certification process to show that they can print the covers to a quality and service that 3dhubs and fairphone are happy with. They are fairly tricky to print and it is worth checking wi…

Cheers for your reply James, I will get in touch with them and check to see if they could do it. It looks like a professional hub so I’m quite confident (I say that but I have no knowlege of these things at all - so who knows). Whilst it not really a problem where it get produced, I was just really…

Hello, Sorry for the late reply. I wanted to through a local printer for the same reasons as you, Slinky. Now, the printer I chose downloaded the file and ran some tests, to make sure it worked, and it looks pretty good. He was eager to do it too as it gives him an opportunity to print objets tha…

Hi Carine, Thanks for your reply, I’m being a bit lazy with this and still haven’t been in contact with the printers yet, but that’s OK because the phone is going to be a while before it arrives I think. Your experience sounds reassuring, I hope it come out well - hopefully the people in Caversham …

Sorry to write this, but my Case was broken after two days, the printing is a nice possibillity to make dekoration, but it does not protect, because the thin plastiklines do not build a solid plastikstructure. It looks cool, but the only Protection is in breaking the case and not the phone when dro…

That’s a shame :[ Do you think that using a different type of plastic (more flexible or something) would help to make the case less likely to break?

Tha’ts really a shame @Hendrik It is indeed a hard plastic used to print. The more flexible plastics that are also on the market are not suitable for the small scale printing as the 3D Hubs offer (this would make the case way too expensive). Though, in general the cases should be really robust and…

I’ve had my case in “hard” PLA now for over a month, dropped the phone once (while standing up), and neither the case nor the phone broke (pfew !) The printer gave me the 1st print he made as well, which was printed sideways rather than upwards. And that one broke just holding it. The one one print…

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Fred September 28, 2014, 4:53pm 18

The hub “Marceau” in Paris can perform simple edition of the FP case