Snapmaker U1 Touchscreen Tilt Mount

Introduction

Quite a few people keep their Snapmaker U1 close to the floor which makes the touchscreen a bit harder to see and use. This mount allows tilting the touchscreen upwards for better visibility and usability. This is not an articulated mount; print the STEP file for the angle you want. Alternatively, you can customize the angle using instructions from Customizing the angle section.

Usage

Slice the STEP files yourself. Do not print my 3mf file because it's optimized for my specific printer. Included STEP files can be opened in all slicers and if you need to re-export any of them there's my FcStd file which can be opened in FreeCAD or any other CAD software that is able to read FreeCAD files.

Multi-material supports recommendations

Model is optimized for multi-material supports. I like to print it out of PLA with TPU supports. To ensure nice quality, set support parameters to:

• Filament: TPU or PETG

• Top Z distance: 0mm

• Bottom Z distance: 0mm

• Interface pattern: Rectlinear Interlaced

• Top interface spacing: 0

• Bottom interface spacing: 0

Customizing the angle

You can customize the angle by opening the file u1-touchscreen-mount.FCStd using FreeCAD.

• Open the file in FreeCAD

• Once opened you'll see an element named "TiltAngleProperties" in the tree view on the left side.

• Click TiltAngleProperties and notice that you now see a property named tilt_angle at the bottom of the tree menu.

• Set the tilt_angle to your desired angle in degrees.

• In the tree select the main part to have it selected while exporting.

• Go to File -> Export menu and select STEP format to export the customized mount.

• Slice and print the exported STEP file.

Installation

• To disassemble the touchscreen, follow Snapmaker Wiki for U1 touchscreen replacement

• Taking off the plastic frame panel behind the screen was easy. Pressed upper frame towards front to get a bit of a gap between the outer frame and the panel, and then stuck a plastic spudger inbetween to pop it off.

• For screen removal, notice that the wiki says to push the screen from the back but doesn't mention that the factory screen is glued around the edges, not just sticky taped in the middle.

• To push the screen out, apply constant pressure to the bottom left corner of the screen to get the adhesive to start releasing. It's important to not apply too much force, but to apply it constantly because that's how adhesives work. It took me around 1 minute of constant force to get it started.

• When unsticking and pulling flat cables, be very gentle. They are fragile.

• I had to unstick the black flat cable from the frame and pull it out from its hole. There's about 5cm of slack in the cable.

• DO NOT PULL TOO HARD! Black cable is attached to the motherboard's connector and if you yank it out you'll have to disassemble the whole right side of the printer to reattach it.

• Once the screen is unstuck from the frame, pull the screen through the mount without disconnecting it.

• Put a bit of double-sided sticky tape on the back side of the screen to prevent it from vibrating out of the mount.

• Don't put too much tape because you'll have a hard time getting it out later if needed. A bit is enough because the screen is snugly fit in the mount.

• Pull a zip-tie through the mount's brace and into the frame's hole. Don't zip it yet.

• I used some velcro instead of zip-tie because that's what I had at hand.

• Pressure-fit the mount into the printer's frame. It should fit snugly and hold itself in place. If it's falling out, tune your printer because it's not printing accurately.

• From inside the printer, put the brace over the hole and zip-tie it tightly to the frame.

• No need to go crazy tight, but it should be tensioned enough to prevent the brace from vibrating out of place while printing.

• Put printer's plastic panel back into place.

Pitfalls

I only tested this mount at a 30° and 40° angles. Screen's cable might not be long enough for 50° and 60° angles. Please check before printing.

Bill of Materials

A ziptie or velcro and a bit of double-sided sticky tape.

Changelog

• 2025-12-25: make the screen and mount flush and friction-fit everything

• 2025-12-25: replace sticky tape mounting mechanism with brace and ziptie

Support

This is provided as-is and there's no support. Instead, there is a FreeCAD source file and STP files to make it easy to modify.

Contributing

Merge requests are always welcome. The FreeCAD file is made with v1.2-dev. Please note that it is not backward compatible with older versions.

Authors and acknowledgment

Horza entirely original work.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of MIT license. No idea why Printables doesn't have this license available for selection.

Design and description by horza , licensed CC0.