April 30, 2025
Description
My daughter wanted to hang a mirror in her room above the door and angled.
Perfect opportunity to sit down with Onshape and sculpt a bracket.
The mirror is Ikea SVARTBJÖRK
https://www.ikea.com/cz/en/p/svartbjoerk-decorative-convex-mirror-black-80517122/
Onshape model:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0536ed0a14142fa246483bd4/v/0b7ae3d6bc6028161564a178/e/fdac1309e2b91e07e7519a8b
My strength was:
* the ease of printing without supports
* the self-aligning folding of the parts into each other
* the ability to extend the top arm to change the tilt angle
How it folds:
(all the steps described here are also shown in the pictures)
First we glue the wall bracket together, this becomes the parts:
* wall-holder-v2 - wall-bracket-top
* wall-holder-v2 - wall-bracket-bottom
Next, glue the lower part of the upper arm:
* wall-holder-v2 - extension-arm-bottom-left
* wall-holder-v2 - extension-arm-bottom-right
Now join the wall bracket and the upper shatterproof arm.
* you can screw the joint together or
* you can glue the joint together
I'll leave it up to you what you prefer. I made the bolt joint there in the prototyping phase and left that option.
If you decide to add screws, you will need 2x M3 square nut and M3 16mm Allen screw.Take a look at one of the pictures.
Screw the hook onto the end of the sliding upper arm.
Here I have used a prot screw joint so that other types of hooks can be used as required.
For mounting you will need 2x M3 square nut and 2x M3 10mm Allen screw. Take a look at one of the pictures.
This allows the holder to be used for other applications as well.
The upper arm consists of three parts.
* wall-holder-v2 - extension-arm-bottom-left
* wall-holder-v2 - extension-arm-bottom-right
* wall-holder-v2 - extension-arm-top
Lets glue bottom-left togather with bottom-right
The corrugations on the third part of the wall-holder-v2 - extension-arm-top allow the length to be fixed so that it does not change spontaneously once the length is set.
To keep the arm firm, it is fixed at its ends with rings (sleeves). These are easily slipped onto the arm from the front.
Next we glue the foot, which I have split into two parts for better printing:
* wall-holder-v2 - foot-body
* wall-holder-v2 - foot-top
The footer is to hold the mirror diagonally so that it doesn't hang vertically by gravity. I didn't want you to see the mirror being held askew. Hence the Velcro.
Slide the foot onto the wall bracket by using the guide grooves to snap the foot into place.
Glue one Velcro to the foot. The dimension is 29mm.
The second Velcro will be glued to the mirror later using 3M double-sided adhesive tape. To determine the place where to stick the Velcro counterpart, hang the mirror on the holder, put it in an angled position so that the foot touches the mirror and mark the place with a marker.
Or you can put both pieces of Velcro on the foot, stick double-sided tape on it and press the mirror to the foot.
It hangs on the wall by one screw.
I hope that this model will find its application and that you will enjoy building it.
I have attached 3 project files for Prusa Slicer:
* wall-holder-v2-plate-1
* wall-holder-v2-plate-2
* wall-holder-v2-plate-2-cross
The last 2 differ in what top of the holder is used.
See files:
wall-holder-v2 - wall-bracket-bottom
or
wall-holder-v2 - wall-bracket-bottom-cross, this one is more stable on the wall.
I have also attached the pre-sliced gcodes for MK3.5
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution