Spacer for Attaching Loft Bed to Wall with Simpson Strong-Tie Bracket

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To add more stability, I attached my son's loft bed to the wall using several Simpson Strong-Tie brackets. The metal brackets are screwed into wall studs at the same height as the bed's rear horizontal rail so that it slides in when pushed against the wall. These 3D printed spaces hold the rail off the wall the same distance as our baseboards to keep everything straight. Cutouts in the spacer allow heavy duty zip ties to pass through the square openings of the brackets and around the bed's rail, securing it firmly to the wall. I tried to create a diagram that shows how things should fit. The magenta part if the Simpson Strong-Tie bracket, orange is the printed spacer, and the grey part in the foreground in the bed's rail with a zip tie wrapped around vertically. The brackets used were very inexpensive from the local hardware store: https://www.strongtie.com/rigidtieconnectors_miscellaneousconnectors/rtr_connect/p/rtr I printed these at 0.3mm layer height, 4 walls, 4 top and bottom layers, and 20% infill. I don't think these need to be overly strong as they only keep the top of the bed from being pushed further against the wall.