My new storm door came with extremely cheezy clips meant to hold the glass and screen panels of the door in place. The clips were already starting to deform and would not have taken much force to break. So I made my own and used them to hold aluminum Z-channel in place that in turn holds the panels in place much more securely.

The door has a Southwestern design of a lizard (or is it a gecko?) on it, so I made the clips resemble that design. The original clips held the screws out at a distance from the door frame, and I needed to mimic that so the original screws would hold tight.

Because nothing is easy, however, every screw was a different distance away from the panel, so I used OpenScad to place the screw standoff part in a different location along the lizard's middle for each screw. I've included an STL of a 'basic' version, but if your situation is like mine, you are going to want to adjust the values in the .scad file and export a new STL for each screw. The liz.svg file is imported into the .scad design, so be sure to download that as well.

Note that the design is not parametric, so if you change the size of the lizard or anything, you will need to adjust all other parts as well.

Print Settings

Printer Brand: SeeMeCNC

Printer:  Rostock MAX v2

Rafts: Yes

Supports:  No

Resolution: 0.3mm layer height, 0.6mm width

Infill:  100%

Filament: ABS

Notes: 

These clips are pretty small. Rafts may not be strictly necessary, but if you are printing them at high speed, rafts help keep things in place.

Post-Printing

Remove rafts if using. I colored in the diamonds on the lizards back with a permanent marker. Be prepared to file edges of the standoff if your screw is extremely close to the edge of something.

How I Designed This

I took a picture of the lizard design on the door and used Gimp to create a silhouette of the shape. Once I had the edges of the shape clean enough, I converted it to a path, imported the path into InkScape and saved it as an SVG file so I could import it into OpenScad.

Category: Replacement Parts