3D Printed Garden Hose Holder Using Tinkercad

So I've been working on my backyard and came up with this design of this handy wall mounted hose hanger, it has greatly improved the look of my backyard by saving space and keeping the hose out of my garden. It also prevents tangles and damage to the hose! It can support an 80ft hose without problems!

I designed it entirely using Tinkercad. It is printer friendly (no supports nedded) and it is very easy to install!
I also added a a Compartment for storing hose attachements and accesories.
Here's how I designed it, at the end you can also find the finished STL file. Hope you like it!

• 3D Printer
• Plastic Filament
• 2 x M5x40 bolts + Plastic anchors
• Drill
• Hose

I'll start by adding a box from the Tinkercad Library. Also I am adding a Round Roof that will copy the curvature of the hose. In the images you can see the sizes I used for both parts.

In order to save plastic and time I prefer to hollow the Round Roof. For this, I'll duplicate this part using Ctrl+D, once Duplicated I'll hollow this part and then downsize it 5mm from each side of this semicircle.

To prevent the coiled hose to fall from the hanger I'm adding this stopper right at the end. For this I'm using a Wedge from the Basic Shape library. I mirrored it in the Z axis and aligned it to the top of the semicircle.

Since the hose I use it's pretty heavy, I wanted to add some reinforcement between the wall and the backing plate, for this I'm using two Metafillet shapes, you can find this in the 'Shape generators' Library → All → Page 12.

As you probably noticed in the first image I have some excess plastic from the red backing plate and the blue stopper that are overstepping the holed semicircle. To erase them I will create two duplicates of this holed semicircle, then I will group one hole semicircle to each shape I want to trim.

I wanted to improve this design and create a place to store all the hose accessories, so I came up with this idea of creating this small space at the bottom of the holder by adding a 5mm thick box from the Basic Shapes library.

For this part I'll add two Cylinders from the Basic Shape library and aligned them to the center of the backing plate. I sized both of them so my M5 screws will fit correctrly, you can see the sizes I used in the image above. I duplicated this cylinders at 45cm from the first so I have two fixation points.

Once I was happy with the design I grouped all the pieces together and exported the STL.

To the printer!

Print settings are standard. No supports needed!

Using a pencil we will simply mark the holes where we would like the hose holder to be fixed, then we will proceed to drill both holes

That's a big step in keeping my yard neat and tidy! I'm very happy with the results!

In case you want to print your hose holder, here is the finished STL file.