{"id":2037,"date":"2026-04-10T02:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:21:57","slug":"3d-printing-the-dash-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/archives\/2037","title":{"rendered":"2. 3D Printing the Dash Display"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2037\" class=\"elementor elementor-2037\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-beeda32 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"beeda32\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f4379f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f4379f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">The dash display will require:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">A printer capable of printing up to 15.50\u201d x 6\u201d (393mm x 153mm).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">A printer capable of printing in materials such as ABS,ABS-GF,ASA or PETG. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">The dash display is best printed in a heated chamber with PEI plate.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">It is not recommended to print with PLA or any material that can deform to outside environment.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">You can print in any density down to 15\u201d but it should have at least 4 walls for heat set inserts to grab into.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">All printed pieces will require tree supports.<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><br \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">How I printed the\u00a0 dash display:\u00a0 I used a Anycubic Chiron with PEI Texture plate. I modified the chiron with a BIQU direct drive print head. I then built a plywood enclosure around the printer and use a cheap office heater to heat the enclosure.\u00a0 This printer is normally very slow so I used software to increase its speed with the direct drives faster ability. This improves the print time by 60% but the machine is very loud.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4d23e7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e4d23e7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3e360a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c3e360a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-1024x827.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2041\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-320x258.jpg 320w, https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-480x388.jpg 480w, https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-800x646.jpg 800w, https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241-600x485.jpg 600w, https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20221107_185241.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I printed the  dash display:  I used a Anycubic Chiron with PEI Texture plate. I modified the chiron with a BIQU direct drive print head. I then built a plywood enclosure around the printer and use a cheap office heater to heat the enclosure.  This printer is normally very slow so I used software to increase its speed with the direct drives faster ability. This improves the print time by 60% but the machine is very loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bst_post_transparent":"","_bst_post_title":"","_bst_post_layout":"","_bst_post_sidebar_id":"","_bst_post_content_style":"","_bst_post_vertical_padding":"","_bst_post_feature":"","_bst_post_feature_position":"","_bst_post_header":false,"_bst_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-king6fab-products-how-to","category-lcd-dash-display-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/king6fab.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}