Plant Box Holder - Build your own Plant shelf!

You want to plant Strawberrys or other vegetables or fruits? Than this is a great solution to do this in a way that saves a lot of space and help to prevent problems with cats or or other animals.

What´s the Idea behind this design?

This holder is made, to hold a typical Plant Box for Balconys - it is designed for the Box from “Erdbeerprofi”, you can find it here:

https://erdbeerprofi.de/zubehor/balkon-und-terasse/profi-balkonkasten

This Box could hold up to 10! Strawberry Plants per Box. I want a Shelf solution, to hang up 4 of these Boxes - so in total 40 Strawberry Plants could be planted on a minimal space. 

The advantages of this Design are:

• Space saving plant solution
• prevent animals like cats or so to use your planting bed as a toilet
• easy to build with a bit of wood and the 3D printed Holders for the plant boxes
• great for adding a watering solution like “Gardena Microdrip”
• optimized for the boxes from “Erdbeeprofi”, but should match with other Boxes too (look for the Measurements of the original Box on Erdbeerprofi.de)

Measurements:

• The Model has a angle on the back of 68 degrees - a optimal angle, to store 4 Boxes on a wooden rack - you could use your own ideas to create the rack - be sure the angle fits 68 degrees and see my photos for some inspiration
• The holes are made for 25mm wood sticks, which are holding the Box

Print settings:

Recommended Material: ASA/ABS - i highly recommend to use ASA for durability

Layer Height: 0,2 mm Standard

Wallgenerator: Standard

Wall Lines: 4 (

Upper and Lower Shell: 5

Infill: 20% Gyroid infill

Brim: You should use a Brim! It is a big model and ASA tends to Warp! 

I also recommend to heat up your chamber and calibrate your filament! You can manually preheat the Bed and close the door on a P1S or X1C to bring up the temp in the chamber up to 40°C. 

Please note: Printing issues depend on the filament the most time - the print profile is tested well, so if it warps: Check your filament settings and calibration! I use optimized Print speeds in my profile - so use this as a starting point.