Some of the first designs I made on thingiverse was different variation of cable holder. Now I needed a new one again and this time I thought it would be time to make it customizable.

Customizable cable holder

A generic cable holder in OpenSCAD. Change the settings below according to the requirements, render the model, export it, print it and enjoy ;)

Project links:

• gitlab
• Thingiverse

Note that when the model renders, the base size of the model will be printed, this should make it easy to see if the customization will fit the 3D printer.

Readers guide

Knowing these should make is easier to understand names of the parameters.

Definitions

• The back plate is the part of the holder that hangs against the wall
• The bottom is the... the bottom part... biggest thing in the XY plane.
• Sargs: I have no idea what this is called in English and even google translate could not help be, so I just took the Danish word instead.
• The sargs are support flanged that give the individual holders their strength.
• Landing is the area of the bottom plate between the slot and the sarg.
• The front is the stop block that prevents the cables from falling off the cable holder.
• The slots are the slots where the cable will be hanging in.
• The rosettes are the reenforced parts of the back plate around the screw holes.

Some abbreviations:

• h: height
• w: width
• t: thickness
• r: radius
• d: diameter
• l: length

Parameters

• Plates
  • t_back_plate: Thickness of the back plate
  • h_back_plate: Height of the back plate
  • t_bottom: Thickness of the bottom plate
  • w_landing: Width of the landings
• Sargs
  • h_sarg: How high the sargs will be above the bottom plate
  • w_sarg: Width of the sargs
  • r_sarg: The radius of the fillet between the sargs and the back plate. Note that this will also be the distance from the backplate to the start of the slot.
• Front:
  • h_front: Height of the fronts
  • r_front: Radius of the top corners of the fronts
• SLots:
  • w_slot: (array) The width of each individual slot. Note the order is opposite to what will be rendered
  • l_slot: Length of the slots - not the depth of the entire cable holder
• Srew holes:
  • hole_positions: (array) The position of all screw holes. The screw holes will be placed in the middle between two sargs. The unit of measure is slot number, where slot 0 is furthest to the right, slot 1 is the second from the right. Slot -1 is the last slot (or first from the left), etc.
  • d_screw_hole: Diameter of the screw holes
  • d_screw_head: Diameter of the head of the screws
  • depth_screw_head: How far the screws will be countersunk
• Rosette:
  • w_rosette: Width of the widest part of the rosette
  • h_rosette: How far the rosette protrudes from the back plate
  • rosette_below_top: The distance from the top of the rosette to the top of the back plate