Summary

Simple tape storage spool stl and scad program ,

See comments in scad file for changing prams for different tapes you may have.

There are a group of designs call tape spool tape measure spool etc . One of the big differences is the idea of print in place for the spool part . The idea of print in place rarely works right because of the many differences on how accurate your machine is in the smallest of prints , also many times you have to change the way your slicer works to get this to work. So I did try a few of these and messed with spacing slicer options but I could not get a clean print from them . So this design just does the spool and spool holder to 2 different prints i.e. not print in place . Since I changed the whole idea I didn't tie my design to any of them. The code for the scad file is a lot simpler and easy to read , and for the printer it's also easy . I put a plate on the bottom of the spool so that you can use it to turn the spool with and to keep the spool so it stays on the bottom . It turns out it's pretty handy for getting the tape out and back into the spool holder too, which was a surprise . This is really a simple print and design once the idea of print in place was tossed out . Hope this is useful for the masses out there ?