DIN Rail Clip Remix 3D Printer Model

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License: CC BY-SA
File formats: step,stl
Download type: zip
Size:80.5KB

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Summary

A simple bracket to hold an Anker Power Port 6 power supply to 35mm din rail.

I really liked peaberry's original clip, which I believe was done using sketchup. I have recently begun to do my own design work using OnShape, and have been looking at small projects to gain some experience with it. I recently constructed a rolling workbench to hold my Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro, and had mounted a Raspberry Pi 4 on a piece of DIN rail, and thought that maybe making a bracket to hold the power supply (an Anker Power Port 6) would be a useful and fun project.

Peaberry's clip was great, I had printed a couple of them for other purposes. Originally I though I would just 3d print a clip that would screw onto those, but then I thought it might be fun to produce a remix of that with the clip integrated. I didn't want to laboriously the nice outline of the original though, so I embarked upon a rather absurd workflow which only makes sense to me.

I started with the STL. I have written rendering code for STLs as part of an experimental raytracer, so it was simple enough to output the vertices of all triangles from a face, and using the ezdxf python library, converted them into a DXF file that I could load into OnShape. I then "used" the exterior lines to create a fresh outline for the clip, which I could then extrude and accurately reproduce the existing model. It was then simplicity itself to create the additional extension to match the 27mm width needed.

I had two printed within the hour, and now I have a way to mount my USD power supply in a reasonably tidy manner, with the ability to move it around as needed.

dinclip.step 374.2KB
dinclip.stl 52.4KB