Glasses box for magnetic whiteboard

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Usually I work in my home office, on a too small desk. Too often I had to seek my reading glasses. Sometimes they were hidden behind the laptop, the other minute I found them on my printer or under some sheets of paper. Luckily I have a magnetic whiteboard in my room. So I decided to design and print a glasses box, that I can attach in eye height on the board, using two 34 mm whiteboard magnets. Since I had finished it, I always found the glasses without long searches. How to print: Model A has a large cutout to reduce its weight. I achieved the best result when I turned it on its back and used a tree support that grew from the build plate to the inner wall of the box. There is a narrow one for smaller glasses and a broad one for larger glasses. Maybe it is a good idea to print with few retracts or a short retraction distance. Otherwise a large amount of retractions on the top of the tree support can flatten the filament rod in the extruder, so that it gets stuck and the feeding suddenly stops. Which happend at my first try to print the broad version of model A. For those who don't want to use supports, I created model B. It has six round holes instead of the one cutout. You can print it as it comes in the stl file, standing, without supports. The overhangs may have not the best quality, but it works. All versions I printed with PLA from different manufacturers, at a slow print speed (25 - 50 mm/s), with a layer height of 0.2 mm and two skirt lines.