I have one of these pen tablets that I have had for a while now, and it’s become a pretty central part of my normal workflows these days. But the biggest frustration I’ve had with this XP Pen one is that the stand doesn’t allow for more than one angle option…and it doesn’t happen to be the one I want.

So I decided to design up a 3d printed stand that I could tailor more to my liking.

I decided I wanted to go with something that would be a fixed height, but that I could iterate on the height easily if I so desired.

On each side of the tablet is a mirrored set of three parts: tablet interface, stand, and base.

The bases sit flat on the desk surface, and they have these two cylindrical elements up on top. The Stand then has a set of V-grooves that nest onto these cylindrical elements. I am just relying on friction for controlling relative motion between the two along the axes of the cylinders. But since both of these parts are intended to be printed with the cylinders normal to the build plate, the layer lines will provide some extra help.

The lower-confidence spot where I’m also relying on friction alone is at the interface between the base and the desk surface. Ideally they’d be printed in TPU or the like…but I didn’t have any dry, and I’m lazy. So I decided to just print them in PETG and cross my fingers.

But, as a just in case, I decided to add some grooves to the bottom surface. If I find that the stands won’t stay still on the desk, I can add some silicone or other not-so-slidey (technical term) material.

I also went ahead and shelled it out from the inside to cut down on material usage a bit.

The stands are what actually set the height. They have the pair of V-grooves on the bottom, that I showed before, and a single v-groove up top.