Navpod 2023 - Single Din 3D Print

Hey all, new Spyder owner here for about 4 weeks. While doing maintenance and such I found the infamous SpyderChat and saw a ton of people doing variations of different Navpods so I thought it would be a good excuse to finally buy a 3D printer.

I printed out the 3D Navpod scan from thingiverse literally as my second and 3rd print. Went ok, but as we all find, that alone is useless. So I spent the next week learning Fusion 360 and some other things. So here is my 2 week progress.

Printed the original file. Realized its not symmetric and other problems. Made some prototypes to test print pattern, angles, do some scaling/corrections, fitment and such. Although i'm ok with post work bondo/sand but these days i'm lazy and i'll just be ok with spending more time here and working on fixing the print. You can see in the prototypes below, most all have rough edges somewhere from supports or bad angles, but i figured out how to get it better.



Here's basically yesterdays prints, as I'm still tweaking things.

I've designed it to fit a single din JOYING AUTO 7" android screen (no volume knob version).

I was able to figure out a good print angle for quality compromise on all visible sides when printing the front and back cover separately (i had a one point thought it'd be easier as 1 piece but it was always a sacrifice for the front face or back cover in quality). Now smooth at all visible angles.


Instead of redrawing the cover, i thought it'd be neat to just fix the problems with the original scan so I can keep the original wrinkle pattern in the print. And extended the vent holes since the radio will be mounted here now.


Added the single din bracket at an angle to match the pocket depth.


Added some LCD brackets to just slide in the new 7" LCD.
Here's the Joying auto 7" screen. Fits great, snug.


Radio with IDE/LCD cable mounted.


Radio mounted


I deleted the old latches and redesigned kind of a locking latch that you screw in the the bottom to hide it, and it holds much better now.


All assembled.


I need to clean up that sticky thing from the pocket rubber at the bottom..


I'm still doing a bit of tweaking to refine some things, I'm currently printing a new face cover that completely hides the chrome bezel. But at this point, it's just me being picky about finishing touches.

Everything is print in ABS. I haven't tried any other filament as I may just do a matte UV coating on my own.

I'm probably just going to run pwr/rem/gnd with RCAs leading to the amp to keep wires going up simple for now. The radio comes with GPS, 4G antennaes/wifi and such that you just sticky to the top of the DIN bracket inside. The mic hole isn't covered but you can use a better external mic too.

I know it's my first post, but the Spyder and the Navpod project has been fun lol. I was thinking of selling these, but it seems most the Navpod threads have gone dark so not sure if anyone still is looking for them.