Acrylic Greenhouse - ClickandGrow

This greenhouse was designed as a way to keep my cat out of my ClickandGrow tomato plants. It is very affective at doing so, but is also a great décor item and functional greenhouse as well. This greenhouse should work for most indoor planters. The interior dimensions are about 8x16 inches, with a maximum height of 20 inches, and a minimum of 18 inches, approximately. 

This print utilizes 8 - 8x8 inch acrylic sheets, 1/8 inch thick, and 8 - 8x10 inch acrylic sheets, 1/8 inch thick. The brackets are all 3D printed, with the hinges being 3D printed, print-in-place as well. The door magnets require a pause at layer to insert magnets, which will allow the doors to magnetically hold shut. The bottom is supported and leveled by TPU feet. The hinges and brackets require specific supports to print as nicely as possible, but most auto generated supports will work as well, organic working best. 

I plan on adding print files in a short while so that the pauses and supports will already be generated in the proper files.

IMPORTANT: When I built my greenhouse, the 8x10 sheets I purchased from amazon had terrible tolerancing, and were more like 7.75x9.75, rather than 8x10. This caused tolerancing issues and fitment issues at the top, which led me to manually measuring everything and reprinting them. If you use the files labeled “FALSE 8x10” they WILL NOT WORK unless you buy the exact 8x10 sheets I did, which can be bought from amazon from “Geetery” seller, and it is a 30 pack of acrylic sheets, and the are the cheapest 8x10 sheets by far. If you do not buy from this seller, and your 8x10 sheets are actually a true measured 8x10, please make sure to use the files labeled “TRUE 8x10”. 

WARNING: I did not test the “TRUE 8x10” files, I merely did the math for the angles and checked the fitment in Fusion360. In theory they will fit, but I did not check them, as my greenhouse uses the “FALSE 8x10” because of the badly toleranced sheets I had to use. The 8x8 sheets I bought had no tolerance issues, so those components should all be universal. 

Please try and do a “dry fit” test before drilling all the holes to ensure that everything fits properly. 

Please note: in order to utilize the magnetic doors, you will need to insert a pause at layer gcode command at the layer right before the printer bridges the gap for the magnets, and you will need to put the magnets in the print yourself. If you are not familiar with gcode manipulation, many slicers make it very easy to do so, please just look up “your_slicer_name pause at height/layer”. I will also be uploading the print files with all the necessary pauses in place as well. This just may take me a few extra days

You will need:

3mm countersunk bolts, nuts, and washers. I used mostly 12 and 16mm lengths, but most lengths longer than 12 will work. Bolts must be countersunk to fit in the countersunk profiles, otherwise they will just sit on the surface. 

8 - 20x3mm magnets

8 - 8x10x1/8 acrylic sheets

8 - 8x8x1/8 acrylic sheets 

A drill and a screwdriver/hex driver