Sofle RGB V2 Tray and Tenting Piece

     PRINT INSTRUCTIONS: 

You Will be printing the Tray and the Tenting Piece. I used Prusa Mini+ for all my parts

For my Tray, I believe I used a 15% Gyroid infill, and Galaxy Black Prusament PLA, but it should be an easy print with any other filament and infill settings.

For the Tenting Piece, I used higher infill, and the same filament. You may get stringing between the pieces, but I left gaps between each of them for the sake of using less filament, and printing faster. I recommend using a brim, as it would reduce the chances of the print detaching from the bed and failing, which happened to me in with the earlier designs. I added a chamfer to widen it and reduce the chances of it falling over though, so if you would like to try it without one, feel free.

The diameter of the holes in the tray is 5mm. You can potentially add M3 heat set inserts and skip the tenting piece altogether if you would like to. They would allow you to adjust the tenting height of the keyboard from the start, that way you can experiment and find what suits you. Just make sure you have long enough M3 screws to tent it to your desired angle.

   NOTE: The models I am adding are only for the right side, you can mirror the part before printing and it should fit the left side just fine.

   NOTE: You may also need to sand down a slight grove around both the TRRS jack, and the port where the USB cable connects. My Sofle connects through USB C, and I have had no issues with clearance on that port. I did have to sand the TRRS connectors with a Dremel to make them fit. If anyone would like me to, I can redo the model to include those grooves, or I can lower the walls of the tray. I will also include all the Fusion 360 files if you would like to do that yourself as well.

     ABOUT THE DESIGN:

This is my own version of a Sofle RGB Tenting kit. I wanted a tent that went from the outer upper corner, to the lower inner corner, but I could not find this design anywhere. This print comes in two parts, one would be the keyboard tray, the other would be the actual tenting piece.

There are five files included: An STL of the PCB, the model of the tray, the model of the tenting piece, and the fusion 360 files for both of those.

   NOTE: I did not make the STL for the PCB, but I am including it in the files just in case anybody else finds it useful.

I based the keyboard tray of a model I had seen online for a different keyboard, with chunks sticking out to put attachments on. I found an STL online for the exact shape of the Sofle RGB v2 PCB, so I recreated the shape into fusion 360 and modeled a tray to fit it. I also modeled it with a 0.5 mm tolerance around the PCB, which worked alright for me. I initially tried 0.25 mm, but either my printer printer, or the tolerances of the PCB itself were not accurate enough, as it required a significant amount of sanding to make it fit. The included model has the 0.5 mm tolerance, it worked first try for me.

The second tenting piece locks into the holes designed into the tray through 4 pegs (4.75 mm Diameter). The angle is 20 Degrees from corner to corner. I left open spaces between each leg in order to conserve material and reduce print time. If the model was made to be solid, it might print better, with no overhangs, bridges, or stringing, however my printer handled it just fine. Feel free to modify it, or let me know if I should.

I ended up buying rubber feet for the bottom of the tenting piece and super gluing them on. This was to prevent it from sliding around.