Phone-y Racing Wheel
I found Lewis Hamilton's accurate, but unprintable, Ferrari F1 steering wheel CAD document.
It was a Solidworks file with over 250 parts. Every nut. bolt. screw, circuit board, button, USB port, etc… (see the last pics)
Attempt 1:
Unfortunately all of the Carbon Fiber was 2D surfaces with Zero Thickness. The surfaces appear on-screen and in the slicer, but will not print. I got a frame of the wheel and things like the hand grips and clam shells did not show up.
Attempt 2:
Then I copied the hollow surfaces and made them solid models. That took hours and I didn't fix everything. The ½ size second print looked amazing but the model still had hollow areas inside. The details were close but not clean or perfect.
Attempt 3:
This all new version is meant to hold a phone for mobile racing games.
It looks a bit like the Ferrari wheel but I heavily modified it so much that it is it's own design.
Everything is 100% actual size as used in the Ferrari race car = about a foot / 30cm wide. 2 parts + a clip.
I did not change Lewis Hamilton's hand grips, size or position. They feel really comfy.
There are No Buttons or Functions, just fake buttons, LED's and knobs that look cool.
I did minimize and redesign the frame to be a phone stand. A phone stand you can twist in your hands to play mobile racing games.
- D'oh! I just noticed my design is upside down to the real F1 steering wheel. I was moving knobs and switches around the edges of the phone and things just ended upside down. No matter. You can hold it up-side down or right-side up and it still looks cool and works great.
I designed it to hold my basic phone but it can fit bigger screens. 6.5 x 4 inch = 165 x 100 mm clearance.
Somehow the file saved as Meters instead of Millimeters. I was experimenting with using OBJ files, and I may have missed a setting. You may have to scale the OBJ model if your slicer doesn't convert the dimension for you. Auto scaled model to 100000% of original size
I split the model into Half-Wheel-Left and Half-Wheel-Right halves to fit my 220mm print bed.
Glue the two halves together.
Wheel-clip-part fits into the slot and holds your phone in place. I had to revise it to 'Wheel-clip-part-4' to make sure the clip Grabbed my phone. Print it flat with the hook facing up. I did need to add foam rubber to the top clip and thin rubber at the bottom 2 clips so it holds my phone better.
The Onshape CAD file is Linked below if you want to modify the wheel.