Ice Box Case for Raspberry Pi 4 with Ice Tower Cooler

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dolbeau did a remix of the relevant sides of this for use with a Pi 3!
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4085554
I made some legs to stand this case up vertically, help organize cables into the PI, and add some visual interest to this case.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3974158
This is a basic case for the Raspberry Pi 4 with the Ice Tower Cooler by 52Pi.
It is designed to be printer with almost no support. The one place where support may be needed, around the SD card (providing easy access), the part called SDsideSUPPORT has a support piece modeled in (intended to be printed at .2mm layer height).
I have done substantial thermal testing of the Ice Tower with and without this case and while this case does not affect the cooling for better or worse, I did find that improved cooling with this Ice Tower Cooler could be had with the substitution of a Noctua fan and Arctic Sliver heatsink compound in place of the pink thermal pads that are included with the cooler.
In this video I show some details of this case, do a quick overview of the Ice Tower cooler, and share the results of my thermal testing.
https://youtu.be/3Eiq7k7Sekc
Required Hardware:
16 x m3 x 6mm screws.
Really any length of m3 screws can be used. Any longer than 6mm is excessive, but if you've got 12mm long screws, they will work, just longer to thread in.
The hardware for mounting the board to the base is all taken from the Ice Tower Cooler kit. The standoffs are reversed and used as screw to hold the Pi to the base, and then the cooler brackets screw down to the standoffs. This is all detailed in the video linked above.