I’m a mobile developer and my desk has always been a mess because of all of the devices I need to manually test on scattered about.

This weekend I decided to finally organize my desk. To help do that I looked up some solutions for phone organization and decided instead of buying an organizer I can just design and print my own.

Used a caliper to measure the dimensions of the devices, wrote down an approximate ideal size of the organizer based on that.

Created this design in opencad after relearning the tool (haven’t used it in a few months).

Then got it printed in petg.

And voila it works. I’m pretty happy the first prototype worked as the print time was around 4 hours so I really didn’t want to have to iterate too many times.

      • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOP
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        12 hours ago

        From what I’ve heard, PLA sags when a constant force is applied. Phones arent that heavy so it might have worked here but technically since the phone is leaning against the plastic the entire time I guess it could sag over time?

        I never liked PLA anyways since I primarily print functional studd and I have been printing exclusively in PETG once I got comfortable with it so I didnt really think too much about the material.

        • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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          11 hours ago

          I see. I use PLA for lots of load bearing tasks and I don’t think you’d see warping here. Nonetheless there’s no real disadvantage to PETG other than slower print speed and fuzzimg if it’s not kept really dry.