Simple Push on Spool Holder

myminifactory

This is my first-ever design. After giving a quick glance at the 3D printing nerd's spool holder challenge, I thought I'd give it a try and see what I could come up with. After spending the weekend playing around with Fusion 360 for the very first time, I finally came up with a design that I liked. The design is quite simple. The spool holder only needs to hold one kilogram and connect onto existing shelving that's about eighteen millimeters wide. In terms of force, this is nothing at all, so I decided to use a push-on design. You simply slip it over the 18mm part of the shelving and push it on. From my prototypes (which were longer in the brace section since I only had a thirty-five-millimeter piece of wood lying around), it easily supported all the spools I had lying around. The cantilever spool holder section is one hundred millimeters long. I printed this design on my Prusa I3 Mk3 using some leftover ABS. This version is optimized quite well for printing, taking roughly an hour to complete. Print with 15% infill, and no support material is needed. Due to my inexperience with Fusion 360, the item will open up vertically in the slicer, so you need to rotate it 90 degrees to get the flat long edge on the printbed. The only limitation with this design is that if the shelving has a curved edge around the top rather than a square edge, you won't get proper contact area support, and it will slip off.