Customizable Outdoor Utility Belt

Fully Customizable Outdoor Utility Belt by 3DWerks

Introducing the fully customizable, make your own, outdoor utility belt! No need to pay for fixed and expensive utility belts when you can specify what you want on your belt and the dimensions.  Go to the outdoors in practicality and style! 

Whats new in Latest Release

v1.3

• NEW: Exposed the segmentw parameter to customizer to allow controlling spacing between tools. Note: you need to play around with the right width for segmentw and the widths for Cup and Pouch tools in order to maximize space or to minimize space between two pouches for example.

v1.2

• NEW: Option in customizer to remove pouch flap to make it more like a ‘pocket’ style pouch.
• Update: Optimization and code clean-up

Features

• Five different Utility Tools to Choose from: Bottle/Cup Holders, Flat Hooks, Eye Hooks, Pouches and Flashlight Holders
• Supports many belt widths  and sizes
• Choose as little as 1 or up to 5 tools on one utility belt. If that is enough, make more utility belts!
• Flexible and comfortable on waist with the use of tuned TPU print profile. Combines flexibility and strength

• Customizable Belt and Tool Colors

   

Sample Use-Cases

Hiking

Climbing

Dog Walking

Bird Watching

Camping

Outdoor Paintball / Airsoft

Cottage

…. possibilites are endless!

How to Print - Steps to Making your Own Custom Belt

1. Hit the customizable button above to get started. Select how wide of a belt you want to support
2. Choose how many tools you want on this belt. 
3. Set up the tool of your choice for each of the slots up to the number of slots you selected in step 2.
4. Change the options for tools that support it (cup/bottle holder, pouch and flashlight holder tools)
5. Hit generate button and download
6. Print! See Tips and Tricks section below to decrease chance of failure and disappointments!

Tips and Tricks

• TPU is pretty much a necessity given the flexibility needed. Who wants a belt piece that sticks out like… a stick!
• Building a belt with five tools is highly unlikely to fit on most build plates (unless using smaller tools). Print multiple smaller utility belts
• The provided 3mf file above has been tuned to minimize supports time needed. Download and load in your generated print
• You can print with out supports however you will get stringing that needs to be removed. 
• It is highly recommended to include supports for the cup holder and flat holder tools. Use organic tree supports 
• You can print smaller segments in other more rigid materials as they will not need to be as flexible on your belt.
• Show off your prints in the comments section
• Warning! It may same obvious, but this belt cannot support weight/load such as in climbing. This designer is not liable for misuse of this design.

How this design was made

This design was developed in pure code in OpenSCAD. Using different geomtric shapes in full parametric form, the program is designed to provide flexibility for the different tools and shapes. Feel free to modify the parameters if you are feeling adventurous but there are a lot intertwined sections and the program could easily degrade with minor tweaks.