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Hello, I hope somebody is here to read this "issue" and make progress. After printing the official Librem 5 case, please find my feedback and request :

Feedback

Overall feedback

• As you can see, the square shell increases the thickness. The visual feeling is a big box, with some slack locations, not satisfying in my opinion (but I strongly respect and thank the job done by the author).
• Volume & Power buttons + kill switches are reachable with the case, but you have to make an effort (however it is not annoying at all).

Way of improvement (what I suggest to correct)

I have tried to summarize those suggestions in the below sketch :

Details in text (click to expand)

1. round the corners at best to avoid the massive rectangular effect
2. round all the holes (from rectangular to rounded rectangle) to have a more welcoming design
3. except for the part surrounding the 2.5D screen, reduce the thickness to the strict minimum to gain in thinness :
   • (STL width - 1.5mm) at the back,
   • (STL width - 1mm) everywhere else
4. make the shell more flat against the smartphone
   • reduce the height by 1mm (STL width - 1mm)
   • reduce the width by 3 mm (STL width - 1mm)
5. correct the position of the speaker holes (at the bottom) and the camera holes on the back because they are not aligned:
   • speakers : merge the speakers and USB holes and reduce the height by 3mm
   • camera (point of view seeing the back of the smartphone) : correct the hole to 1mm to the right, and 1.5mm to the bottom.
   • flash LED hole: correct the hole to 1.5mm to the bottom, and change the shape from a rugby ball to a rounded rectangle.
6. keep (rounded) chamfers for each hole for aesthetics and easy button access

Request

I tried 3D rendering with TinkerCAD (open to beginners) but I can’t easily modify the original STL file due my lack of skills in this software, therefore I kindly ask you if somebody could clone and modify the original STL file according to my recommendations please ?

I have asked it in the forum, unfortunately without success. I think we definitely need to have at least a nice and elegant open-source case for the community.

Thank you very much for your kind help.

PS : just for information, this issue was also opened on the community project but I received no response, therefore if we could succeed to reach this request in this repository, I hope to close the one in the community repo, thank you !