Wall Mounted Duotang Holder
I needed a way to organize some of my project duotangs for student use. This allows for an obvious central storage location of my project booklets.
For a future version I would tweak this to fit better. You can see in the video I had to do some extra cuts as my CAD design does not account for material thickness.
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Feel free to modify the plans to work for you but don't sell or distribute them. Please link back to my website.
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duotang_wall_holder.dwg | |
File Size: | 41 kb |
File Type: | dwg |
duotang_wall_holder.dxf | |
File Size: | 135 kb |
File Type: | dxf |
Below are my original sketches before drawing in Autocad.
It had to fit multiple duotangs (rough measure 11.5"x9"). I originally was going to only do 2" for the depth but later in Autocad I changed that to be 2.5" to allow for some extra wiggle room. The front height of 5 is enough to stop a duotang from falling forward and the rear height of 7" was to make it visually appealing as well as allow for an easy access hole that meant I could easily use a screwdriver to install it onto a wall. Even though this is a very simple design and build (by hand or with a CNC) you still have to consider all the little things.
It had to fit multiple duotangs (rough measure 11.5"x9"). I originally was going to only do 2" for the depth but later in Autocad I changed that to be 2.5" to allow for some extra wiggle room. The front height of 5 is enough to stop a duotang from falling forward and the rear height of 7" was to make it visually appealing as well as allow for an easy access hole that meant I could easily use a screwdriver to install it onto a wall. Even though this is a very simple design and build (by hand or with a CNC) you still have to consider all the little things.
Hems are either 1" or 3/4" wide for support and easy layout. I designed this project using imperial measurements because the other software along the way (Sheetcam and MAch3 for the CNC) show Imperial numbers.
I did my initial design in Autocad based on how I would do a layout directly onto sheet metal. I added rectangle cuts to the right side image so allow for easier bending of the 16g sheet metal I was using.
The G-code gets read by MACH 3 and after doing a dry-run test on the FastcutCNC Plasma Table and then turned on the plasma cutter to get the gcut started
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The cut worked out perfect! This used up 24" x 7" of 16g sheet metal
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I hope this walkthough is helpful to anyone else who might need a design like this. Feel free to modify the plans to work for you but don't sell or distribute them. Please link back to my website.