The first accessories I 3D printed for my Shapeoko.

Once you start buying robots to fabricate things, you’ll quickly start discovering ways your machines can help each out and compliment one another. Here are a few of the very first things I managed to sneak in on my office’s 3D printer the first week of owning my CNC machine.

A touch probe holder.

A place for everything, and everything in it’s place, or whatever. It’s a simple design that keep that nice chunk of aluminum from just sitting around, getting in the way, while still being at the ready. The probe drops in nicely, and there there is a little clip for the alligator clip doodad. The instructions say to use double stick tape to mount, but I threw in a screw so it could take some abuse. (I also threw a piece of electrical tape over the screw to avoid metal on metal contact). Source: Shapeoko Touch Probe Holder on Thingiverse.

A bracket to hold the drag chain.

Speaking of double sided tape, that is like.. the one bone headed thing about the Shapeoko assembly- the double sided tape holding down the drag chain holder. Pretty sure mine didn’t hold through the setup process. No worries, I found this super handy dandy bracket and it does a much, much better job securing the drag chain along the X axis. Highly recommended! Source: Shapeoko 3 XXL - X Axis Drag Chain Bracket on Thingiverse.

A boom arm for my dust shoe’s vac hose.

This thing is awesome! Presumably, it’s also for sale on the suckit website, though i have never seen it instock. That’s ok though, because they made the plastic parts available for free on thingiverse. The metal parts are hacked up from a cheap shower curtain rod from Lowes (IIRC there is a part number in the readme). This is a fabulous contraption for dealing with your dust shoe’s vac hose. Source: Suckit Vacuum Hose Boom on Thingiverse.

Last but not least, some clamps.

I tried a few clamp designs, including the Myers MDF ones and they were a disaster for me, personally. I had much better luck with this design from PWN CNC. Being able to apple some downward pressure is nice, plus they color coordinate with my dope vacuum hose boom arm! Source: PwnCNC Lever Clamp v2 on Thingiverse.

For reference, all files were printed with PolyMaker PLA on a LULZbot Mini via Octoprint, sliced in Cura Slicer.