Nonet Cup Tray (Folding Design)

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<b>Universal Cup Tray (Holder) for coffee/thea/soup/beer. Scalable to desirable cup size. Convenient folding design for 5-9 cups.</b> The design has been thoroughly tested in an office environment through daily use (up to 8 times a day) for almost 2,5 years! Other uses can be at a party or an event. <i>(Think beer/beverage)</i> Fully printable, no mounting hardware required. The tray is very easy to hold and operate. You always have one free hand, for example for operating the coffee machine or opening a door. The clips have a double function: not only clamping, but also at the bottom your index finger lies around the clip and at the top your thumb clamps over the clip. This prevents shifting. Because the outer cup positions shift backwards when the number of places is expanded, the center of gravity also shifts to the support position. This makes carrying a full tray (9 cups) very stable. <i>(I myself have run up and down a narrow and steep curving staircase with a full tray without spilling...)</i> The clearance between clips and tray in the central hole is fairly wide. This has been chosen to be easy to assemble and to be able to rotate freely. (construction-technically, this works well in practice) If you want less slack, feel free to "tweak" this by, for example, scaling up the clips in the slicer in X-Y direction very briefly (do not adjust height/length of the clips!). The Trays are printed flat, with no support. Use 30% infill for strength. The Clips needs to be printed with the "legs" horizontal (See added image) with support! Info about assembly and scaling in your slicer software for other cup sizes is added as DOCX files. <i>p.s. The name for the cupholder derived from the naming of a group of 9, refering to the maximum number of cups you can comfortably hold in one hand.</i> <i>duet (two), trio (three), quartet (four), quintet (five), sextet(six), septet (seven), octet (eight), nonet (nine), dectet (ten)..</i> Added on request single trays (3 positions and 5 positions) for Starbucks Cups. Since they are large, the design has grow bigger. I approached the original as much as possible in the design. You probably need a little support for the added bottom recess. You can personalize this tray with (different) color clips. For hot drinks you can print at 100%. For cold drinks (because the cups are even bigger) you need to scale all items to 106,5%. I have added a DOCX with further explanation and made a visual representation of how deep each different cup size will stand in the tray. ______________________________________________________________________ <i>* This is a repost. I had only left this model on my Printable page. However, the model is worthy of greater prominence. Try it out (in an office environment) and you'll be hooked.</i>