Arca Swiss Wall Mounting Plate

This is a model meant to allow you mount items with Arca Swiss ‘grips’ to your wall, so that you can make better use of the vertical space. Easy to store and grab your tripods and monopods off of this plate. Prints without supports. Has a few helpful features to make installation easier, as well as to make storing and grabbing gear off of these plates easier:

Conical recesses

Underneath the plate, there are conical recesses around each screw hole. This allows compliance with the wall anchors themselves, so that the mount may sit flush with the wall

Counter-boring

Screw holes are counter-bored on the top of the part. These features are currently sized for #4-6 wall anchors, but STEP and 3MF files have been provided so that you may customize this feature to match your particular anchors. It is recommended that you match the depth of these counter-bores with the height of your screw head (see below)

Sloped mounting pin area

This area allows the mounting/retention pin in some Arca Swiss grips to smoothly enter and exit this mounting plate (so long as the top of the screw head sits flush with the top of the plate; is matched to the depth of the counter-boring). Additionally, by leaving this space open, the spring underneath these pins can be left in its naturally relaxed state, so that you aren't compressing it whenever it is in storage (potentially reducing the life of the Arca Swiss grip in question)

Sloped grip entry

This entry slope makes it easy to simply slide your tripod or monopod down onto this plate by helping to align its entry into the grooves.

‘Taller’ version provided:

A taller version of the file has already been provided (15mm vs 10mm). If you need a different height, I recommend using the “Press Pull” feature of Fusion 360 by selecting the bottom of the part and utilizing this tool to ‘pull’ it out to thicken it. The front slope of the part should be maintained when doing this (this is how I made the “tall” version to begin with)

If you do not use Fusion 360, you might be on your own for figuring this on out, but between the F3D and STEP files, you should be able to import the full parametric data into your CAD of choice to make whatever changes you desire.

Printing & Installation notes:

• Recommend at least 4 perimeters when printing, particularly around the screw holes, you want solid plastic beneath the screw head to minimize the chances of crushing the part. And on that note;
• Be careful not to over torque your mounting screws during installation. The friction from their installation and force from torquing them down can install the screw heads too deep, resulting in a pit where the retention pin on your tripod or monopod's head can catch on when storing it and grabbing it off of this wall mount.
• Prints without supports. I was careful to keep the overhang angles relatively light, so that the outer perimeters could still have enough to grip onto beneath and besides them. But if you alter these angles to be more over hang-y, or try to print the external perimeters first, you'll likely run into issues (unless you're a god with your print overhangs; you do you)
• Center-to-center distance between the two mounting holes is 60mm (2" 12/32)

Words of caution

This mounting plate is intended for SMALL & LIGHT tripods and monopods (or what have you). If you hang something heavy off of this, make sure you screw this into the studs. If you hang something long off of this, make sure it is out of the way of anything that might catch on it, that could grab it and rip this mounting plate off of the wall (damaging your wall in the process). I mounted mine inside of the closest where I store all of the my photography gear, in a spot that is out of the way of anything that could hit it. I would recommend others do something similar. I am only providing this print. It is your responsibility to securely install it and take care not to damage whatever you mount it to. It is also your responsibility to not mount anything you'd be afraid to damage in case of wall mount failure (like, say, an entire camera, somehow)