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Key caps have lower tolerances than the rest of the board, and the slot for the stems is a very small (the whole cross is 4.1mm wide with the "arms" of it being
by xypage 3y ago
Key caps have lower tolerances than the rest of the board, and the slot for the stems is a very small (the whole cross is 4.1mm wide with the "arms" of it being 1.17mm [1]) negative space, which 3d printing isn't great at. It's certainly possible and I know Zach Freedman [2] did this using his publicly available/free mx keycap model [3], but honestly unless you're more committed to having a board totally made by you than having one that sounds/looks good (which is totally reasonable, making one just to be able to build one from scratch yourself is something I want to do too), I'd say buy some.
1: https://www.cherrymx.de/en/dev.html https://www.cherrymx.de/en/dev.html
2: https://youtu.be/yYcNi9hKxDk?t=688 https://youtu.be/yYcNi9hKxDk?t=688
3: https://thangs.com/designer/ZackFreedman/3d-model/KeyV2%20G20%20Cherry%20MX%20Keycap-10467 https://thangs.com/designer/ZackFreedman/3d-model/KeyV2%20G2...