Has anyone here had any experience with 3D printing a vesa mountable case to mount a mini-ITX board with a small cooler and an ATX power supply?
I’m concerned long term that it won’t be able to take the weight and would be suceptable to fatigue and stress failures. I’d like to 3D print a case for some of the parts I’ve already got to build a media PC that can be hidden away (SO’s non-negotiable requirement) but im not sure if id need to consider getting some sheet metal instead (less preferable).
Does anyone know if it would suffice?
It doesn’t appear to be a Vesa mountable case as beat I can tell does it?
Have you use a 3d printed vesa mount case before though, I’ve no issue modeling out a design for one and making it etc, its more just the strength of the part and potential for fatigue causing failure and damaging the components.
You are correct. It appears VESA mounting disappeared with the InWin Chopin MAX, though it did exist for the predecessor the InWin Chopin. Apologies for the confusion.
There are some other chassis available with 100W-250W PSUs though… Here is one I found.
Creep is going to be the primary issue if you 3d print a case that hangs off a mount, but there are filaments that creep less.
Do you need the power supply to be full sized ATX? going with a smaller power supply should help with the creep issue since an ATX PSU would be about the heaviest component that would cause all the distortions.
If you want something to mount on the back of the screen 3D printed, I would probably do a split solution with a PSU on one side of the mount with power outlet facing down, and the other side having the I/O facing left. In between I would just do a cable connection and let the cabling go from the top over the mount.
Hope that makes sense, I can perhaps make something with an open metal backplate and a 3D-printed cover, this will take me some time however and the metal plate need to be ordered separately. Doing it this way, however, is possibly quite a lot easier than building all of it from scratch.
Yeah I was starting to think maybe a stacked mounting syatem might be a better option for 3d printing to split out the weight for the plastic.
Cheers for the offer, but im goung to guess you’re US based, where im over the pond in europe. To be fair i know i can make a rudimentary metal plateed vesa mount myself though, it’s more that the 3D printed mound would have been less effort.
I think I’ll make a simple metal plate in the mean time (just to figure where to buy sheet metal from locally first ) then I might weigh out the components and run a seperate experement on a seperate 3d print to see how it goes a bit more long term.
) then I might weigh out the components and run a seperate experement on a seperate 3d print to see how it goes a bit more long term.