Filament clip

thingiverse

I almost feel guilty for uploading another filament clip again! I liked the idea of a clip that clips onto another turn of the filament itself to avoid 'spool compatibility' issues altogether, but the one I downloaded didn't hold on very well to the filament when printed with my printer, so I decided to design my own. That should not take more than 5 minutes of work anyway... Four prototypes later, which were either too tight or too loose, I abandoned that design and came up with another one that isn't as demanding on precise tolerances to work. It also seemed cumbersome to thread the filament through the hole, so I did a symmetric clip that grips both turns of the filament in the same way. I've included the 'FreeCad' source code in case anyone finds it useful and needs to adjust it a bit. For 1.75mm filament. There's also a premade _tight version of the .stl with a bit tighter grip if you need that. If you'd rather have a universal clip that clips onto the spool flange, check out this great design: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3757356