This page is for all of you who are looking for a ready-to-print keyguard design. With luck, we have what you need. If not, you can tweak one of our designs to match your needs. Read more about that below.
We want to thank Christine Baudin, M.S., CCC-SLP, and founder of the “AAC for the SLP” Facebook group, for suggesting this idea and acting as the “final decider” for all questions and issues during the first round of designs.
We’ve chosen the most popular layouts for the most popular AAC apps on the most popular tablets (the iPad 7/8/9, the iPad 10/11, and the iPad Mini 6/7) and created designs (STL files) that you can download and print yourself or give to someone else to print for you.
Begin by going to the page devoted to your tablet:
- iPad 7, 8, 9 Ready-to-Print Designs
- iPad 10, 11 Ready-to-Print Designs
- iPad Mini 6, 7 Ready-to-Print Designs
By the way, if you simply can’t come up with an easy way to 3D-print your chosen design, the good folks at AdaptedCreations on Etsy will be happy to take your order, print the keyguards, and send them to you at a reasonable price.
If you have an AAC system close to one of the ready-to-print designs, but it has a different layout, iPad model, or case, you may want to turn to the AACKeyguard Etsy shop for help designing and/or printing your keyguard. Producing a new design is more time-consuming than simply printing an existing one and is especially challenging to do remotely, but I’m sure the price will be reasonable.
Tweaking these keyguard designs
If one of these keyguards is close but not quite what you need, you can “easily” modify it so it will. You’ll need to learn how to use the keyguard designer, but you can get a big leg up by starting with the design we’ve already created for that keyguard. Learn more about the process here.