Headphone stand, customizable: any height, top width and base

A one-piece desk stand for over-ear headphones. The headband rests on a curved top 120 mm wide and 50 mm deep that rises 22 mm in the middle, with an 8 mm rim at each end so the band does not slide off. A 26 mm neck carries it 250 mm above a 160 x 120 x 16 mm base. Set the height (180 to 255 mm), the top width and curve, and the base size to suit your headphones and desk.

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Parameters

Overall heightmm

Curved top widthmm

Top curve height (sagitta)mm

Cradle depth (headband rest width)mm

Neck widthmm

Base widthmm

Base depthmm

Base thicknessmm

Recesses for stick-on rubber feet

Sliders and downloads are free. Changes by the AI designer use credits like any design; new accounts start with free ones.

It prints upright with no supports: the underside of the top slopes at 52 degrees. Your printer needs as much Z height as the height slider. The stand is solid plastic, so it only looks weighted: for real weight, print the base with more infill or glue a steel plate or coins under it. Four shallow recesses take stick-on rubber feet, and you can turn them off.

Parameters

Every slider in the viewer above, with the range the model accepts. The model rebuilds valid at both ends of each range.

Parameter	Range	Default	What it changes
Overall height	180 to 255 mm	250 mm	Overall height from the desk to the top of the curve. Make sure the cups of your headphones hang clear of the base.
Curved top width	80 to 160 mm	120 mm	Width of the curved top across the headband. Widen it for large headbands so the weight spreads over more of the band.
Top curve height (sagitta)	8 to 40 mm	22 mm	How much the top rises in the middle compared with its ends. A deeper arch follows the headband curve more closely.
Cradle depth (headband rest width)	30 to 80 mm	50 mm	Front to back depth of the curved top and the neck: the width of the surface the headband lies on.
Neck width	16 to 50 mm	26 mm	Width of the neck between the base and the top. A wider neck is stiffer and looks heavier.
Base width	100 to 240 mm	160 mm	Side to side width of the base. Widen it if the stand tips with heavy headphones.
Base depth	80 to 200 mm	120 mm	Front to back depth of the base, the main stability setting against tipping forward.
Base thickness	8 to 30 mm	16 mm	Thickness of the base plate. A thicker base adds weight low down.
Recesses for stick-on rubber feet	On or off	On	Adds four shallow 15 mm recesses under the base for stick-on rubber feet. Turn it off for a flat bottom.

Proof: measured on the model

What the design must satisfy and what our CAD engine measured on the model at the default values. Only measured values are shown here; nothing on this page has been printed by us yet.

Requirement	Wanted	Measured
Overall height	250 mm (the height slider)	250 mm
Width of the curved top at its ends	120 mm	120 mm
Depth of the surface the headband rests on	50 mm	50 mm
Neck width at mid height	26 mm	26 mm
Base thickness	16 mm	16 mm
Base depth, front to back	120 mm	120 mm

valid solid, one body, 160 x 120 x 250 mm, fits a 256 x 256 x 256 mm printer; overhangs: 1.5% of surface would need support.

Print notes

Orientation: Upright as modelled, standing on its base.
Supports: None
Material: PLA or PETG
Layer height: 0.2 mm
Settings: Use more infill in the base, or 100%, if you want the stand heavier
Hardware: 4 x stick-on rubber feet, 15 mm (optional)
Time and filament: About 11 h 30 min and 255 g at the default size: a rough estimate from the model's volume and surface (PLA, 15% infill, about 1 mm of walls, 0.2 mm layers), not a slicer.

The print is as tall as the height slider (250 mm by default). Check your printer's Z height and lower the slider if needed.
Check that the cups of your headphones clear the 26 mm neck and do not rest on the base when the band sits on the top.
For real weight, glue a steel plate or coins under the base and cover them with the rubber feet.
Stability was not tested with real headphones. Widen or deepen the base if your pair is heavy.

How it was designed

Designed with buildcad's AI agent, checked by the buildcad team. This is the request it started from and an edited account of what it did (more on how text to CAD works).

The request
A desk headphone stand about 25 cm tall with a wide curved top to hold over-ear headphones and a weighted-looking flat base.

1
It picked typical sizes
The prompt gave only the height, so the agent chose typical sizes and made each one a slider: a 120 mm wide curved top, a 160 x 120 mm base, and 250 mm overall. It listed the checks: height, top width, base size, one body sitting flat.
2
First build: overhang and a wrong measure
The first model built as one valid body, but the overhang check failed: 7.9% of the surface (7346 mm2) would need support, from the 45 degree undersides of the top. The top width measured 160 mm, because the bounding box picked up the base.
3
A steeper underside
The agent steepened the underside of the top to 52 degrees. The flagged surface fell to 1.5% (1383 mm2) and the check passed. It rewrote the width check to measure across the top itself, just below its ends, which gave 120 mm.
4
Every slider extreme
The slider sweep rebuilt all 16 extremes as valid single bodies. The agent's reply asks the maker to check that the headband fits the 50 mm deep top and the cups clear the neck.
5
Our change
We lowered the maximum height from 320 mm to 255 mm. The stand prints upright, so its height is the print height, and at 255 mm it still fits a 256 mm tall printer.

One run of the agent: 1 min 40 s, about $0.22 of model time at list price (claude-sonnet-5-5). We changed the code afterwards, as described in the last step.

Change it with AI

Set the sliders, then press Change it with AI: a copy goes to your designs at those sizes and the designer opens with a suggested change you can edit. Its changes use credits like any design; new accounts start with free ones.

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