A pretty simple phone stand is a circle with a slot in it, something like:
Phone Stand | BlocksCAD (blockscad3d.com)
This is easily made by cutting a series of cylinders with appropriate cutouts and stacking them.
The pieces may be cut out of pretty much any available scrap, and are useful as a test cut since they may be stacked and rotated to compare how the machine cuts in different orientations.
Drawing up a file is a simple matter of setting up a file:
Drawing a circle:
Duplicating it:
Drawing in some slots:
(adjust as necessary to fit the phone the stand will be used on)
and then using Boolean operations, or the Trim Vectors command to create the desired versions — the top will need both slots in a T version and will be a through cut, so duplicate one of everything:
Then use the Trim Vectors command to remove what is not wanted:
until one arrives at:
OK
OK
Use Join Vectors to connect things:
Yes
and set aside the geometry thus made:
Repeat this for the overcut slot for the cord:
OK
OK
Join Vectors
Duplicate this, since one will want a version where one can cut the slot partially into the circle:
There are two options for cutting this out:
- leave the file as it is and cut using the center as an origin and cut out of small pieces of scrap
- measure a piece of stock and enter it and arrange the parts as desired
No matter which option is chosen, it will be necessary to add offset geometry and cut as a pocket down to tab height or the penultimate pass since the stock thickness is likely to be quite a bit more than the diameter of the tool used.
We will use the latter, the stock being:
Arrange things as desired:
Select the outlines:
Offset by the endmill diameter plus 10% or so:
Apply
Select the top layer and cut to the desired depth:
Select the next layer:
and start a pocket toolpath at the bottom of the previous one:
and cut down to tab height:
Add tabs to the outline geometry:
Then create a Contour Toolpath which starts at the bottom of the previous pocket:
and cuts things free save for the tabs:
Attached as a v7 file:
a simple phone stand v7.c2d (248 KB)
