Vertical Stand for Two MacBooks

Files

laptop_stand.scad: 69 bytes. Updated October 30, 2013.
laptop-stand-profile.scad: 1718 bytes. Updated October 30, 2013.
laptop_stand.stl: 44378 bytes. Updated October 30, 2013.
laptop-stand-profile.svg: 2782 bytes. Updated October 30, 2013.

This work is licensed Creative Commons - Attribution.

Description

I’ve got an old white macbook and a newish retina macbook pro. Typically these live on my desk stacked on top of each other, with keyboard/monitor/mouse plugged in.

My cat likes to sit on top of them because they are warm. She also likes to chew on nearby cables. This is a problem.

So, here’s this Thing to stand them vertically!

Kitty came by looking for her warm spot, but didn’t stay long. My desk is now clearer, but also more lonely.

… success?

Instructions

I modeled this in Inkscape and OpenSCAD. I roll like that.

If you want to make your own changes:

Edit up the SVG profile image to match the thickness of your laptop(s). I just eyeballed the curves for the corners and it mostly worked out.
Make sure you end up with a single path.
Use the Inkscape OpenSCAD Poly extension to export your new profile as laptop-stand-profile.scad
Open up that file and look at the name of the module. It’ll be something like pathXXXX().
Open up laptop-stand.scad in OpenSCAD, render and save the STL
PRINT THAT SUCKER.

I printed my copy on a Replicator Dual with 0 extra shells, 10% fill, 0.2mm layer height. It took quite a while.

My Replicator is semi-enclosed, but I had some issues with cracking. Since I don’t care too much about the aesthetics, I just hit it with a heat gun to fuse the cracks together afterwards.