Cable Strain Relief for Anet A8 Heat Bed

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Strain relief for Anet A8 Heat Bed This design is based on an idea from a remix, but I created it from scratch using OpenSCAD. It's meant to work with the Connector Housing I designed here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2428313. The bracket attaches to the top of the carriage - above the bearing housing and provides a simple way to secure the cable loom near the Connector, preventing additional movement. It works for me and you can take it and modify it as you wish. Using this design and the Connector Housing, you shouldn't need to solder ("hack") your heat bed connector anymore; some of the soldering jobs I've seen are quite bad. NB: In the OpenSCAD design file, I'm including a custom library. The library contains a simple function to create cubes with rounded corners, which I use in this design. Here's the function: // A function I use often to create a cuboid shape with rounded corners module roundedCube(xdim,ydim,zdim,rdim) { hull() { translate([rdim,rdim,0]) cylinder(r=rdim,h=zdim); translate([xdim-rdim,rdim,0]) cylinder(r=rdim,h=zdim); translate([rdim,ydim-rdim,0]) cylinder(r=rdim,h=zdim); translate([xdim-rdim,ydim-rdim,0]) cylinder(r=rdim,h=zdim); } }