Microswiss direct drive cable support with Filament out sensor for Ender 5+

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I am new to 3d printing, and for my first foray, I went with a Creality Ender 5 plus, which so far I have been very impressed with, especially as it actually worked out of the box. The one thing that I was not impressed with, was the lack of cable supports. One of my first tasks was to find and print the support for the bed wires, but after that, I was struggling to find any supports for the cables that pass to the head, and these were flopping down nearly touching the bed. I borrowed ideas from Thingiverse and designed ones that initially did the job, but then I fitted the Micro Swiss Direct drive, which meant starting from scratch. I looked around, but it seems to be something that is lacking. The first problem was the filament sensor, as part of the point of going for direct drive was to get away from the long Bowden tube, so I decided to make a cable support and filament sensor all in one. As the filament sensor, I used the Creality End Stop sensor, because that is nice and small. I use the filament clamp lever on the feeder as the indication of when there is filament. The end stop sensor slides and is screwed (2 x No 2 x 3/16 self-tapping screws) into it's housing, which then in turn slides into the cable support. There is a spring between the end stop housing and the cable support, and a 3mm screw which passes through to provide the adjustment for setting it up. In my case, I also fitted a rectangular LED to the end stop, which makes it easier to set up, but this is very fiddly, as you need to add a 180ohm SMD resistor to the 1K pads, and then solder the LED to the Diode pads. You do need to be pretty good at soldering for this bit. I printed the End stop Mount with the open end up, as this then means you do not need any supports. The cable support seemed to be best printed flat on the bed, with the cable channel facing up. I blocked supports in the 2 cable tie channels. This piece, in my case, took quite a lot of post printing clean up as the supports really stuck to it (Still learning). I wanted it to be a tight fit on the MicroSwiss mount, so the slot will need adjusting to get it wide enough to fit. I used a coarse sand paper folded round a needle file to increase the gap to make it just right. It's fixed to the MicroSwiss using 2 x M3 tapped holes that are already there. I used 15mm M3 Allan (Hex head) bolts for this. Once the cable support is mounted, the X axis end stop on the printer will need to be moved. On my Printer, this was in a pre-drilled and tapped hole, so I needed a "T" nut, and shorter screw. Extra parts 1 x Creality End Stop Sensor. 1 x M3 30mm bolt 1 x 5mm x 15mm Spring 2 x M3 x 15mm bolts 2 x No 2 x 3/16 self-tapping screws Extension lead for the Filament sensor. With the exception of the End Stop I already had most of the components. The Spring is from a Set sold by Halfords, and the Extension lead was made up from connectors and cable I already had in my various junk boxes. This is my first posting, and I have tried to give as much information as possible, Hope it helps someone.