Parametric Door Catch (Latch / Stay / Stop) - Customizer

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My second Thingiverse "Thing" is a remix of Worlds6440's simple and effective door catch, remixed because I wanted rounded ends on the female part and various different stand-off lengths. I had a spare couple of hours and wanted to play with OpenSCAD again. I was thinking about a solution to our new puppy's appetite for rubber door wedges when I came across Worlds6440's approach. I created a new OpenSCAD version, making it fully parametric with Customizer support just because. The separate .STL files are for various sizes that I've printed and seem to work okay, but using Customizer or especially OpenSCAD, you can change everything I could imagine needing changed (sizes, tolerance, force required to open etc.). This design is of some use if the original doesn't suit for whatever reason. The standoff arm is simple and might benefit from a design adjustment for strengthening purposes, but I'm going to see how this one holds out for now. ------------------------------------------------------- If you find this or any of my other designs useful, please let me know in the comments section or with a posted "make". It's good motivation for posting additional things. Marble Solitaire Game - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3364658 Door Catch - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3470398 Modified Cubes Retraction Test - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3682887