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Description: This is a plus-shaped piece designed to hold a picture/certificate frame spaced apart on the wall. Four pluses hold one frame, and each additional frame sits in one of the corners of the plus symbol so that large arrangements can be perfectly spaced.
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Project status: Designed Now accepting: Fabrication Bids
Design Type-Tier: simple-bronze
Design Price: US$25.00 | Paid: US$25.00
Fabrication Price: Payment Pending
Order Number: 20160826232629-558-10-0
Material desired: brushed aluminum
Quantity desired: 30
Additional Information: The top of the design is a rounded corner plus shape, with a smaller straight-edged plus shape hidden below it so that picture/certificate frames can be inset into it and held securely against the wall. Four of these would go around one picture/certificate frame and allow multiple frames to be held together with the same spacing on the wall. It should have a recessed hole in the middle of the surface plus shape for a screw to go through the whole design and secure it to the wall. Ideally it would be about 1 cm tall from the bottom of the inner plus to the bottom surface of the larger, outer plus shape. The finished product would hold frames like this one, roughly 1 to 1.5 cm apart - http://tinyurl.com/hfprzcp. I'd like the top plus shape to extend out over the silver edge of the frame in the link, but not out into the certificate area, so it should extend roughly .75 to 1 cm out from the inner plus shape. The top plus shape should also be fairly thin, it's meant to securely hold the frame to the wall, not be a point of focus.
Another sketch has been uploaded for further clarification - this component is meant to be two plus shapes stacked together, one smaller inner plus about 1 cm tall, and another larger outer plus that sits on top of it. The idea is that the shape, when screwed into the wall, sandwiches the corner of the picture/certificate frame between it and the wall. When four are used all on corners of a frame, additional frames can be interlocked into the first using more of these spacers to maintain a uniform placement on the wall. The additional sketch shows a side view (poorly done, I know), with one of the sides of the plus facing you (colored in), and the thinner top plus shape on top, then an "x-ray" top-down view where you can see the inner smaller plus through the shape with a frame in each corner of it, along with the larger outer plus sandwiching the corners of the frames in. The last is a top-down view of the shape as you would see it on the wall, with a screw through the middle to anchor it (most likely a silver screw going into a drywall anchor. I picked the simple project type because it's basically two shapes with a whole in the middle and no moving parts, so it shouldn't take a lot to design it, and I'm not sure how I'm going to fabricate it yet. I'm trying to get the idea out of my head and into something usable before I move onto the next step of making it reality.
Update: I'm not sure how to provide feedback via you3dit.com without editing the project/accepting the design and I'm not sure if accepting the design marks it as completed or gives the opportunity to select it and move forward with that design, so I haven't accepted it yet. This is my first experience with this site... That being said, the updated design posted is almost exactly what I'm looking for design-wise and is pretty much perfect with two small changes if possible. First, I'd like for the bottom plus to have 90 degree sharp corners in the inner corners so that the frames being held sit cleanly and snugly into the corners. The rounded outer edges of the bottom plus are fine, but the inner rounded corners as currently depicted might make the frames sit a little loosely/wiggle. Second, can you recess the screw-hole? I'm sure of the exact technical description, but the screw on this page is kind of the design I'm looking for, where it has a tapered head - http://www.lowes.com/pd/The-Hillman-Group-42-Count-6-x-0-75-in-Flat-Head-Aluminum-Slotted-Drive-Interior-Exterior-Wood-Screws/4258171. I couldn't read the specs on the CAD drawing you included and the top plus looked a little thick to me, but I agree with you on starting with 4 printed to make sure the sizing is right and then moving on to milling the rest. I think I'd also like to keep it one piece if possible just for the sake of simplicity. I can see having a separate top and bottom to help align everything, but splitting it into two and only using one screw to hold it all on the wall seems like it's going to take more hands to put it all together on the wall.
