I designed the detail of the icebox part to fit two 80mm fans to provide cross-flow cooling for the PC. I then did several test cuts to make sure the holes were aligned. I designed tabs with 4mm holes to press in brass M3 threaded inserts to screw in the acrylic panels. I used netfabb to slice the main files into printable pieces.Īfter printing all the parts, I glued the parts together with CA glue and clamped them to make sure it didn't have many gaps. It's a large fast ABS printer made locally.
I printed the parts on a PolyPrinter 508. Once finalized, I was able to take the STL's and break them up into smaller printable pieces that could be glued together. I decided that laser cutting the mid and back panels with acylic would let me account for mounting holes for components quicker than entirely 3D printing the case. I sliced it up into 3D printable sections. I did a lot of work in TinkerCAD figuring out the scale with my existing mini-ITX form factor PC parts. I came upon a model for a Nuka Cola Vending Machine on Thingiverse. The Nuka Cola PC case came about as I was looking to build a Fallout 4 themed case for Quakecon 2016.
