Good luck with your prints.

I'm not looking for additional stuff to design. I had a specific need to fill, so I figured I would share with the T4R community when i came up with a solution.

You should have had that kept that idea, you could be farming out the work to china for a few dollars a pair, and selling them on amazon for $29.99 a set.

You would be rich!

Seriously, very cool idea. I want a set in black. A set in the wood filament would be sweet too.

picking mine up from the 3D printer tomorrow.

Black would be awesome

I know it's a long shot, but check your local library. That's where I am printing mine.

I think I know the answer, but is there anything in the design that would prevent you from be able to swap them around so that the curved portion was near the seat?

Thanks! Appreciate you posting them.

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Hey guys, just gonna offer an opinion no one asked for. I 3D model and print all day at work and have built my own custom printer. PLA, while super easy to print, does not hold up to heat very well. I wouldn't look at melting temp because that isn't really the issue. Sitting in a hot car will not necessarily melt PLA but it will become soft. It will warp and it will deform. Once it cools it's good to go again. Repeated cycles of this will weaken PLA as well as any material really. My coworker warped a prototype project I had him testing. His one instruction was to not leave it in his car due to it being PLA. I picked it up and it just squished in my hands.

Better options if you guys are looking to use 3D printed parts in your vehicle would be ABS or PETG. Ngen might work but is a very brittle material. PLA+ by ESun is a higher temp version and might hold better but not sure. Higher temp materials are definitely trickier to print with but are much better suited to day to day use. They are other options as well but you'd be looking at a very specific printer that is setup to print at high temps (ie too hot for most printer hotends) with abrasive filaments.

I agree that PLA isn’t ideal, but it’s all we have at work and it cost me nothing. The PLA we used hasn’t shown any signs of softening or deforming during the heat of the day. The first trial run was a different PLA that softened in the heat. This particular PLA is much harder and the T4R doesn’t get hot enough to cause a problem.

Nothing in the design would prevent you from mounting them with the curved end toward the seat. Unfortunately the squared off end will probably dig into your calf. My first design was a square box. I quickly discovered that square corners and legs don’t match.

After the current set Printed, I considered a symmetrical design that is rounded at both ends. Ill probably try that at some point in the future.

They look good! Hope the PLA they used holds up to the heat. The first one I printed in lighter gray softened in the T4R.

Really like these....would you sell a pair?


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Not interested in selling them, but the digital files are available for download. You can have them printed locally if you want.

Kydex is used By people to make their own holsters. I think it could be successfully used to make these things also. If you are a DIY type

I considered kydex as an option but abandoned it in favor of 3D printing in PLA. I believe Kydex softens at a slightly lower temperature than PLA and most of the stuff for holsters and knife sheaths is thinner and easier to deform.