Parametric Zip Tie Head Replacement (openscad)

prusaprinters

<p>Stop wasting 90% of your zip tie length!</p><p>NOW FULLY PARAMETRIC! (with openscad)<br>(note: if you are going to desing a head in the customizar add your own tolerances by modifying the width and height of the ziptie)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Once you printed the heads, insert your zip tie left over in the hole with no pawls, orienting the theeth outside of the L shape of the head, heat up the PLA with a lighter and press with pliers, let it cool off, and the join should be super strong.</p><p>Play around with the scaling in your slicer (or add extra width or height to the ziptie measures in the customizer) &nbsp;to have the best fit , it has to be the tightest tolerance possible to prevent slip on the teeth</p><p>Print settings:</p><p>(the thickness of the walls of the model are 0.4 increments to avoid printing infill or having empty spaces.)</p><p>(i sliced this model with cura, probably other slicers will have the same settings)</p><p>filament: regular PLA<br>nozzle:0.4<br>layer height: 0.2<br>line width:0.4<br>top/bottom layers: 3<br>wall line count: 2<br>temperature: 180ºC<br>cooling: 90% (very tight tolerances (0.5mm) that's why is very high)<br>print speed: 20 mm/s (you probably can print it faster, I didn't tried faster speeds)</p><p>fill gaps between walls: ON<br>filter out tiny gaps: OFF</p><p>the last two are very important, otherwise the pawls will be hollow and weaker</p><p>ENJOY!</p>