Do you use 3d printed mounts?

[Ringo5tarr]

What teams use 3d printed items to make mounting easier/take up less space? stuff like this:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:656030
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:640102
If so, do you think it makes these sort of things any easier? Which electrical components do using these improve most upon? Are the examples above the type of thing that you use? If not could you please leave a link to what you use? I'm looking into finding mounts and stands that can best make use of space in case we have another low bar predicament. Thank you.

[LlNUX]

We designed a 3-D printed talon mount and used it this year, I'll try to post a picture of them later on if I can find them.

[troy_dietz]

We used some 3D printed mounts this past season, but mostly for weight reasons.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1494829

We also had a status light mount, but it broke a few times on Einstein and I plan to redesign it for the next season. (you can see the duct tape in the third picture on Thingiverse)

With a recent donation of several printers, we'll probably have a lot more 3D printed space/weight saving solutions in the coming season.

[marshall]

We used 3d printed mounts as well as 3d printed cases for electronics last season and intend to continue that trend this year as well. Also, 3d printed spacers... custom sizes are so easy to make.

[ttnn58]

this year we used one to hang a fisheye len on our camera and another one to hold the bearing for the output shaft on our drive gears.

[billbo911]

We have been using 3d printed parts for a variety of things for the last 3 years.
Speed controller mounts, custom encoder and potentiometer mounts, camera mounts etc. It allows us to custom design mounts for relatively low stress areas. That said, we have also printed pinions for transmissions that worked surprisingly well! Those were replaced with steel pinions for competition, but they didn't fail on their own.

[Lili_1868]

This year we used one for a camera mount and another for an ultrasonic sensor mount.

[MikLast]

not so much a mount as a casing, but we have had issues with our cameras being broken off during matches, so we built a case for ours.

[Bkeeneykid]

We designed a really nice 3D printed mount for the new radio, the bolt holes on the bottom, that was really nice looking and held well. As you all know, this was then destroyed as a broken acrylic board required us to redo a lot of wiring. In the heat of competition, some things just don't hold us as well as electrical tape around a piece of metal frame a few times.

I plan on finishing the Inventor files for that mount and posting it on thingiverse soon, if you're interested.

[OccamzRazor]

Some interesting things we did with 3D printed parts this year include a motor mount, a winch with spool, and some climber hooks.

Here are the parts and analysis in a very basic level presentation about all of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQWwjdSNcno

FEA starts at 17 minutes.

[frcguy]

We utilized 3D printing this season for our shooting mechanism. As the rotating part of our shooter was a pool noodle epoxied to a PVC pipe, we designed end caps to go in the pipe so it could be mounted on a 1/2" hex shaft. One of our mentors then printed them in fiberglass-reinforced plastic at his work. Attached is a render of it.

[BenjiSG]

We use a great deal of 3D-printer mounts! It seems as though we're constantly making more. We've used them for everything from air tanks to pressure gauges to Talon SRXs to limit switches to cameras, to basically everything else we can think of

[bobbysq]

We 3D printed a battery mount by p̶i̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶t̶ downloading the STEP from AndyMark and converting it to STL.

[OccamzRazor]

Originally Posted by BenjiSG

We use a great deal of 3D-printer mounts! It seems as though we're constantly making more. We've used them for everything from air tanks to pressure gauges to Talon SRXs to limit switches to cameras, to basically everything else we can think of

Be careful printing parts under pressure. A lot of these polymers need to be really thick to prevent fatigue and failure in that kind of loading scenario. The old clippard tank recall comes to mind.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by OccamzRazor

Be careful printing parts under pressure. A lot of these polymers need to be really thick to prevent fatigue and failure in that kind of loading scenario. The old clippard tank recall comes to mind.

I think this was in regards to mounts. Not air tanks.