Magnetic Charging Phone Stand

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<p>A desk phone-stand with an integrated <a href="https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WMFM5N2">right-angled magnetic charging cable</a>, which runs through the bottom of the stand and out of the back. &nbsp;Just drop the phone onto the stand to start charging.</p><p>It’s sized for a phone wearing <a href="https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B3DV9M8">this case</a>, leaving the fingerprint sensor on the back clear. &nbsp;You can edit it online <a href="https://www.tinkercad.com/things/iOiQSBvGRqS">in Tinkercad</a> to fit your own phone (case).</p><p>Add four <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=2.5%C2%A0mm+adhesive+feet&amp;tbm=shop">2.5&nbsp;mm-tall adhesive rubber feet</a> under the stand for grip.</p><p><strong>See </strong><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/139268"><strong>V2</strong></a><strong> which has a narrower bed for more comfortable access to the power button.</strong></p><p><i>(Re entry into Cable Organizers competition: I designed this to organise a single loose charging cable – not quite sure whether it’s what the competition setters had in mind…)</i></p><h3>Print settings</h3><p><strong>Layer height</strong>: I used 0.32&nbsp;mm – though after eight months of pressing my fingertips against the side multiple times a day as I release the phone, I see there’s a crack there, so maybe 0.2&nbsp;mm would be better to squish the layers together more.<br><strong>Initial layer height</strong> (assuming 0.32&nbsp;mm layer height elsewhere): 0.172&nbsp;mm to avoid a small gap, in Cura at least, between the sloping phone bed and the charger retainer<br><strong>Line widths</strong>: inner wall &amp; infill 0.4&nbsp;mm; outer wall &amp; top 0.8&nbsp;mm (my nozzle diameter is 0.4&nbsp;mm)</p><p><strong>Wall thickness</strong>: 1.2&nbsp;mm (being a 0.8&nbsp;mm outer plus, where there’s space for it, a 0.4&nbsp;mm inner)<br><strong>Outer before inner walls</strong> for the slope of the bed.<br>I put the <strong>Z seam</strong> at the back, out of sight.</p><p>Just two <strong>top layers</strong> (for 0.32&nbsp;mm layer height), to avoid extra passes making the phone-bed bridge sag, and so that the finished bed is thin enough to have some give, which is probably good for dropping the phone onto it over and over.<br>I used no <strong>bottom layers</strong>.</p><p><strong>Infill:</strong><br>I used a Cura <a href="https://support.ultimaker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013370140-How-to-adjust-print-settings-of-a-part-of-my-model-in-Ultimaker-Cura">infill mesh</a> to make two sections:</p><ul><li>To contain the cable tunnel, I used 15% Triangles infill for the bottom 3.692&nbsp;mm (to just below the phone bed).</li><li>I left the rest with no infill: the phone bed bridged happily without; and with no infill the thin bed has a bit of give.</li></ul><p>I positioned the infill mesh over the top rather than bottom section, to avoid a Cura bug/feature whereby the meshed infill got printed before the walls.</p><p><strong>Supports</strong>: none</p><h3>How I designed this</h3><p>In Tinkercad. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.tinkercad.com/things/iOiQSBvGRqS">Edit it online.</a></p>