3D Print Your Own 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Mockup with These $25 Plans

[Tiger8]

I would actually laugh until I hurt if some moron printed one of these out, used it to design an accessory, and ended up with a warehouse full of useless cases when this ends up being wrong.

So you enjoy laughing at other's failures and missteps?

 

[Reason077]

One day, we'll be able to 3D print phones that actually work.

 

[jtara]

Forget Google Glass.

Now THIS is a great justification for punching-out a stranger!

(You know some drunken fool is going to whip out their "iPhone 6", and...)

 

[Kissaragi]

Love to know how many of these they sell... seems pretty nuts!

 

[GenesisST]

I'd love to see the correlation of buyers to virginity...

 

[Ann P]

3D Print Your Own 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Mockup with These $25 Plans

Sheesh, so much obsession with mockups as of late....

 

[DTphonehome]

Very clever! Great way to find people who need intense psychiatric help!

 

[guerro]

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Following our feature yesterday sharing photos of a case and 3D-printed physical mockup of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6, designer Martin Hajek is selling his own set of 3D files for a similar model, priced at $25. The files allow anyone interested in trying out how the alleged design feels in the hand to print their own mockup.

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Hajek's $25 package is available through TurboSquid and includes an .STL file for 3D printing as well as .3DS and .OBJ modeling files. For users interested in printing their own physical mockups, quality will obviously depend on the quality of machine used for printing, but the .STL file is compatible with a wide range of machines and services.Based on our experience with our 3D-printed mockup, we are continuing to refine our own model and may freely release those 3D files in the future.

Availability of iPhone 6 files for 3D printing comes as physical mockups have been appearing in increasing numbers. French site Nowhereelse.fr has been sharing several other photos on Twitter, while regular parts source Sonny Dickson has shared a few of his own images.

While there are a variety of cases and mockups all pointing in the same direction for the design of the iPhone 6, it is important to remember that most of these products are essentially all based on the same sets of leaked design drawings, and they ultimately may or may not prove correct.

Leaked cases and accessory company mockups have generally proven accurate over the years, although they were famously incorrect in 2011 when a tapered design led to numerous cases being produced to fit that design. Ultimately, Apple released the iPhone 4s with essentially the same design as the iPhone 4, and the tapered has not been seen since, although one report indicated that it was in fact a real prototype design that was scrapped by Apple.

Article Link: 3D Print Your Own 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Mockup with These $25 Plans

So, this is what it has come down to? Humankind is doomed.

 

[rdlink]

So you enjoy laughing at other's failures and missteps?

If someone running a business is stupid enough to rely on a mockup from a rumor site to design one of their products, then yes, I would genuinely enjoy laughing at them.

 

[kmj2318]

The amount of memes I could post to describe my feelings on this is too damn...

Well, it's a lot.

 

[Sicutz]

Mhm, 25$ for a plan to print my own iPhone 6.

Based on rumors.

Its just a phone of plastic.

Based on rumors.

25$.

For a plan to build a piece of plastic.

Based on Rumors. For 25 Dollars.




***** did I just read

 

[dec.]

I might just buy a roll of aluminium foil and fold my own authentic mockup tonight and laugh at the cheap plastic mockupers... oh wait.

 

[westcoastin]

You're printing it wrong.

 

[Manzzle]

Enough of the 4.7". It's barely any difference. Can someone start doing the 5.5" version!

 

[Yvan256]

Mhm, 25$ for a plan to print my own iPhone 6.

And you still only have a file after that 25$, you need either a 3D printing service or a 3D printer and plastic/resin depending on your printer.

Or you could simply print a mockup, maybe even in colour, and glue it to the appropriate thickness of cardboard for under 1$.

 

[Knighthammer]

someone will do it...

 

[G4DP]

These people really don't care in getting in deep water with Apple legal over this, do they!?!?

For them to get in trouble with Apple. Apple would have to admit and prove that it is made to the specifications of the new iPhone. Which they won't do.

 

[crackbookpro]

A lot of macrumors today...

Although, 3D printing is the next big market to populate in B2B sooner than later. Than, a customized approach will happen to the consumer, and within that the B2C relationship of printing will gain momentum.

I give it like 2yrs... maybe 3, before 3D printing explodes.

All 'bout the polygons...

 

[Jynto]

I remember there was a similar mockup around this time last year that you could print out and make it yourself. I rather liked it. In fact I still have mine. As you can see, it's been jailbroken.

 

[KazKam]

So you enjoy laughing at other's failures and missteps?

Yes, and so do you. All humor is pain. Every joke has a butt (victim).

Also, this may be one of the stupidest things I have ever seen on this site. The ability to pay money to spend more money and resources to print a plastic version of a phone that may never exist. Unfreakinbelievable.

 

[baryon]

So people want this slightly larger iPhone so much that they are willing to spend time printing a chunk of plastic just so they can feel it in their hand so they can imagine what it would feel like to hold it before they actually can do so?

Let's call this the iPhone 6 Simulator! It's identical to it in every aspect, save for some minor details.

 

[512ke]

Okay thanks, now where are the plans to print a 3D iWatch?

And

Is anyone selling plans for the Galaxy S6: A New Conversation About Health Edition?

 

[Yr Blues]

I would actually laugh until I hurt if some moron printed one of these out, used it to design an accessory, and ended up with a warehouse full of useless cases when this ends up being wrong.

Sometimes businesses take risks in order to be the first. And being the first can make or break a case-manufacturer.

I don't know.

laissez faire

 

[Chupa Chupa]

And for $1 more you can upsize to a full scale Brooklyn Bridge.

 

[joecool99]

print useless garbage for $25 and make ME money!

unbelievable crap