Extruder Cable Tie-Clip for Prusa Printer

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Background to the designFirst of all, I guess, the basic idea came orginally from Yosuke's model, that I saw while browsing Printables for useful stuff. So some credit to him. However, I am convinced my interpretation is far enough away from his one, so I have not to call it a remix.Nevertheless, this modification for your Prusa printer (except from MK3.5/3.9/4: they have no need for that) serves to straighten up the cables a bit coming from the Einsy casing and leading to the extruder.From my personal view, without any mod the cable does not look as good as it should. It almost bends a bit if the extruder is not that high and for me, mostly printing small parts, that was enough of a reason to construct this little help and print it with my Prusa MK3S+. Information about printingThe part is available as .stl file so that you can make the settings that suit you and your printer best. Alternatively, there is a ready-made .gcode uploaded with which you can start printing directly. But check the configurations in advance!In order to create the .gcodes, I used PrusaSlicer version 2.5. » Tie-Clip«Before we continue, let be said the images show an older version, which is dimensioned a little to small. With the intention in mind to spare unneedy parts made from plastic, I decided not to print the corrected version. Only that corrected one is downloadable on this page! Ok. Now talking about possible issues coming up for parts clamping around the main frame from Prusa printers.First, at least for the case of MK3S and upwards, so I think at least, you can adjust belt tension for x-axis using a longer screw beside the corresponding stepper motor (yes, not the best solution, but it is what we get by Prusa Research). This screw reduces the gap between frame and parts from the x-axis as a whole. After having a look on following image, though, it is clearly visible that even if it is not much space, it does not colliding anyhow.The motor itself is not big of a problem as well.Secondly, there is the possible case in which the cables from the extruder itself can collide with the clamping clip: if it moves to completely zero in direction of x, as seen in the second image. Yes, the clip do touches one of the ties from the cables. It do moves the tie very slightly aside, too.That is why I had to minimize the size of the "frame embracing arms" to very little. Doing so cannot prevent the phenomen. However, moving the extruder upwards and downwards some times manually showed me, if you not overdo this strategy in a way like bending tests are done by industry (where you bend cables thousand times within a tiny time), - there should not be any bigger problems with maintance caused by the clip itself.So the conclusion is: the part does not harm your printer nor your printings while processing. If the part got your interest, print it and use its advantages like very less used material/ time or that it fits to different Prusa printers, since you can set it yourself by keeping more or less length of the tie before cutting it! AfterwordIf you like my design, feel free to show me that too :DThis can be done in different ways. It would be best if you upload your prints of the model as a make and give feedback by commenting.Thanks for reading and possibly your prints ♡ ♡