Hi ya'll,

So I decided to design and 3D print my own cell phone mount for my F56. It works pretty well! I styled it after the Mini click and drive mount, but used an inexpensive Wizgear magnetic insert to allow mounting the phone.

One of the $100 mounts are probably a little nicer, but this one only cost $6 for the wizgear and a few cents of plastic. It also gave me a fun/quick crafty project. ;-)

So if you have a 3D printer (or a friend with access to one) feel free to print a copy:

Thingverse download link





mini f56 3d printed cell mount

 

Thanks, never did a 3D print. Local library offers printing services so I'll give it a shot! On line link through Windows 10, shows about a $60+ cost which kind of defeats the purpose.

 

Looks like that might work to mount a 7" tablet to use for aux gauges. Do you think it could it handle the stress on a bumpy road?

 

I think cellphone definitely fine, but tablet probably not so much. Just my guess.

 

K. Thanks.

 

First of all you did a sound job !
To develop and produce it in that way is smart.

Using the click & drive, i can say an option with a sturdy connection, for over 1G movements, i never saw. Iam using the click and drive only with cable ties, so a magnet would not work.

 

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing the model.

 

Wife loves this! Works great.

So I printed one at my sons school library and although I was able to tinker and get it to work, I wonder why the backside of the curved section had a lot of extra material that I had to scrape away with knife? More of a curiosity learning thing for me. The holes where the bolt and nut also weren't as clean.

Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Did you already have the click and drive, and switch with this? Or did you install it yourself? I've been wondering how hard this install would be.

 

I installed two of these. First one took 15 minutes, second time about 5 minutes. Total of 5 screws out and 5 back in. If you have click and drive no point in using this as this is just a simpler version.

 

Nice job going to give it a go

 

That sounds like you printed with "supports" turned on. Supports are disposable 3D structures so that portions that would be printing "in air" have something to hold them up. In this case, probably the screw hole recesses (that is the only area your printer should select to need supports). Sometimes you'll need to flip the part in the printer software so that the appropriate side is facing your print bed (to minimize the need for supports).

The settings for supports on 3d printers are a little finicky and particular to that printer and filament. It sounds like "xy distance" and "zdistance" are both too small and the supports are sticking to the main structure. So probably shrink those values.

Another option is to just turn off supports. I bet the holes in this part would print fine for those small over air gaps, possibly a little drooping but not too bad.

 

hey, trying to reach that files, but page is doesn't exist, anyone please share it with me, pleeeeaaaseee

 

 

OP deleted the files due to a warning by BMW as he stated somewhere. It is gone.