May 8, 2023
Description
It's important to keep your fluids up through the day. Â Having a good source of water close on-hand is ideal. Â Here is my design to keep my 1L water bottle at the edge of my desk.
The water bottle/cup holder clips to the side of a desk via an integrated "C" clamp. Â The holder supports drink containers up to 80mm in diameter and steadies containers up to 75mm. Â The clamp adjusts to desk edge thickness upto 50mm. Â The "C" clamp screw bolt is an M12x1.75mm. Â I've shared print files for two bolt lengths to cover thick and thin desk edges.
To simplify the 3D printing step, I've made clamp and cup holder two separate parts. Â The two parts interlock and slide together to form a strong single part.
I've covered the underside of the "C" clamp with a layer of non-slip material to improve the clamp effectiveness and secured the material with CA glue. Â Layer adhesion is normally the weakest part of a screw bolt, hence to protect the bolt, don't over tighten the "C" clamp.
My print is made in 1.75mm eSUN PLA+ black filament, with 0.2mm layer height and 15% infill on a PRUSA I3 MK3S printer. Â Print supports are required on the base plate when printing the cup. Â I suggest printing the screw bolt with a brim perimeter of 10 lines.
I hope you can find this print useful, too.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial