After dropping and having to replace the cracked LCD screen on my Librem 5, I’m hoping to pay someobdy to print and ship a quality case here to the US. I’d pay extra for the trouble. Would you be up to it?
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Sounds good
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I received my case yesterday via USPS. There was no customs stuff. Once, DHL had something to do with customs, but I have never had that with USPS so far.
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This is good news! Glad it worked out!
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In anticipation of finally getting the phone, I’d be interested in paying for someone to print and send a case (US here). In addition to the model that @st.boom has listed (which looks great), are there other cases that anyone could vouch for? Any potential sellers? Is it worth breaking this out into a separate “case marketplace” thread? Thanks!
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I can print two more in the next few days if you like. It might make sense for you and @WinstonSmith to coordinate so that I had to send only one package from germany.
Basically, I don’t want to print too much. Otherwise they’ll say it’s commercial in the end.
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Great! I’ll private message you my address. If @mathemagician is interested too, we can split the shipping cost and I’ll send him a case as soon as I get them.
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Sounds good to me, thank you both!
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I’m having the hardest time figuring out which file I would need for this. I looked in the two gitlab links and everything looks a year old or older. Can you point me to the file you used for this?
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I had the @fiacco file (Evergreen_new_case_1.1.stl) printed and like it a lot. However, as the weather warmed, I have experience some overheating while charging during heavy usage. Would be nice to modify the case to have slots all the way around the top and sides to aid cooling. I don’t think that would compromise the protection value of the case in any way.
Didn’t someone say that the stl file did not lend itself to modification in a CAD program?
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I made that mistake previously: Blender (at least) does open and edit .stl files. Not sure if other format would give better functionality and control, though.
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Ah… I haven’t tried a CAD program since AutoCAD for DOS. I’ve heard good things about Blender, but didn’t know it was good for creating/editing 3D printer files. I’ll have to try it out.
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That’s the same I did it with my last smartphones!
Imagine, when I bought my first iPhone, I bought armoured case for it but, in summertime, I experienced stop-working safety process from it to save it from overheating! So I definitely abandoned covers and now I’m using only bumpers!
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I really worried that Purism still not release a fancy gnu case for librem 5 : (
Librem 5 it very close to be a daily driver gnu+lnx phone strictly.
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+1
matthias
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We get closer to shipping parity fast. There are more L5s in the wild than ever. I really encourage Purism to offer a protective case. 
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Will be @francois-techene the HERO to make a fancy case for Librem 5 like N9?
Pine64 already make one for theys phones why why why Purism can not? 
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Where would your modded STL files be?
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