Wallet
A 3D-printed side project I use as my daily wallet. Designed to be sleek and efficient with a high card capacity.
21' - 21'
SOLIDWORKS
3D Printing
Contribution |
I designed and 3D printed a wallet with a 16 card capacity and cash compartment for personal use. The wallet is a compliant mechanism aided by elastic bands to keep cards and cash in place. |
Improvement |
The keychain holder part isn't strong enough. Upon redesign I'd create a hole in the upper left side of the wallet and loop a string through the hole to attach to the wallet instead of having a key ring sttach directly to it. This will make the design simpler and reduce forces on the wallet to make it less breakable. Currently, the 'back' of the wallet is flat and houses the ID card section with 2 rubber band pockets. The bands there are hard to secure and prone to breaking. To fix this annoyance and add some benefits, I'd like to extrude the top and bottom of the wallet out to prevent movement in the Y axis while the X axis is secured by the existing tensioning rubber bands. This'll allow the wallet to operate with less bands, make the ID section more secure, and make it easier to slide IDs in and out, all without adding much chunkiness and removing a frustrating feature of the wallet. I also want to tweak some settings to make supports easier to remove. |
Material |