Anywhere where I can get 2 or more row versions of these? Or is there a non-Fusion 360 version of the parametric file? Fusion 360 is not Linux friendly
This is great, except that I have already heavily invested in 50x50mm as the base dimensions. Changing the slotDimension parameter from 42mm to 50mm changes the basic unit size, however the base is not correctly scaled and the label doesn't size correctly (it becomes too wide!). I don't know Fusion360 enough to identify what the issue is, would anybody else who is more capable than me be able to fix this parameter to correctly scale up?
How do I delete the label tabs? I want a bin for planting seeds, and while I am at it, can anyone tell me how to put a taper on the inside of the bin? The taper helps get the seedling out of the bin without damaging the roots. Any help is very, very much appreciated.
Zack, how can I taper the inside panels of the boxes so I can use them for planting seeds and place a drainage hole (or holes) in the bottom of the boxes? I would like the outside of the boxes to be square - or rectangular - but I need the inside to be tapered so the boxes will fit in the What Is The Meaning Of Life design? Please help this slightly decaying ADHD old man figure this out.
Very excited about this system. I downloaded Autodesk Fusion (Free) just so I could manipulate the file to create different variations with the parameters. Has anyone experimented with making the magnet holes smaller so magnets can be pressed in without adhesive? Also...what's the point of the small (nail?) holes behind the magnet holes in the bins? They don't go through, so why are they there? Arguably, those are what's complicating the layer spanning the magnet hole, needing those supports.
Great Thanks for that... I have only one issue and that is the divider walls... no matter what I change in Parameters nothing happens. Any help on that?
What is the secret to printing these (all gridfinity blocks, not just this one) so that the magnet/screw holes aren't filled with unremovable supports? I've got the adhesion down and the rest of it prints just fine, but I've tried to print with and without supports. Without supports, where the magnet/screw holes narrow, it tries to print a floating circle with nothing to adhere to. With supports, I can't get them out to use the magnets like I want to.
Print alternative bins like Gridfinity Rebuilt, which a "printable slit" design where the printer can bridge across without supports.There's also Gridfinity Refined where the magnets slide into a special slot without being glued down, also prints without supports. They are all compatible with each other so you can experiment!
The parametric source code seems to have issues. When creating a bin beyond the base 1x3 it stops putting in the magnet holes and the Divider parameter doesn't do anything.
I think you have to lower the label "platforms" cause they are interfering with stacked boxes on top. Especially when you are using DYMO style embossing labels, which have their own thickness.
Hey guys, I am looking for a 5x4 divider box, but I want one long compartment across the top. The openscad modifier wont allow me to do this, but it gets close. Anyone know an easy way I can modify it? I think i would be ok just taking the walls out of the top row, but i am not familiar with openscad.
In the Cura slicer, it is easy to add filament blocking shapes, which might be an easy way to combine compartments by cutting the walls out during slicing.
I'm trying to edit the AutoDesk model parameters to get variants of the boxes without the label bar. I'm getting errors when trying to change the number of slots.
It would be cool to have all your gridfinity models on Github, so you can just clone the entire repo and easily update if you make changes. There are just so many models. Awesome system by the way!
Zack, I'm obsessed with Gridfinity, and I so appreciate the work you put into it... so I decided to pay homage to you in my first 3D Printing related YouTube video. Hope you enjoy my little humorous bits ;) https://youtu.be/KtbKwAuwv9s
I really like the gridfinity system but I have some troubles with the fusion file. The dividers don't seem to work properly no matter what size or number of dividers I choose I only have one compartment. Also, it would be helpful to name the important steps in the timeline for better clarity.
Thank you so much for the gridfinity system. I have used it to organize a lot of my workshop. Now I am printing custom boxes for my bathroom and other parts of my home. I love this system!!
Zack, the parametric drawing breaks if youre trying to change dimensions of the basic box (ya, Im a bad person) but if, on sketch 3, you add an enforced outer radius of 4 and a colinear constraint of any of the external lines of sketch 3 to any of the overlapping lines of sketch 1 it fixes itself.
I presume "trying to change dimensions of the basic box" means changing the value of the slotDimension parameter? If yes, do you have an updated fusion 360 file with your changes, as it is not clear (to me) what your fixes are.
Thanks, Jim
Hello! Thank you for all of this. This is amazing.
One note. While editing the parametric file in Fusion, if I adjust the "slotsDeep" to anything other than 1, the holes for the magnets don't repeat in that direction. They repeat in the "slotsWide" no problem.
Double click "Extrude 2" (the one that extrudes the main body) then click OK, you should now only have 1 body and the magnet holes pattern should work correctly.
this is fantastic, but the parametric file is a bit broken, I cant change the sticker shelf length, and when I try to make a 1w x 3d the model breaks giving the box a top and the sticker shelf floating in mid air and an extra wall...
Thank you for this script, I've used it to create a ton of bins custom to the sizes I want as I wanted larger bins. When I set the numbers for slotsWide and slotsDeep to 1 it comes out flat with no walls. Anyway to have this do custom height 1x1 boxes?
if anybody can send me the measurements of the bottom shape/design + the measurement of the top edges/design. (the interlocking system design). + the thickness of the walls. in a Direct Message, i can have the next level of this concept ready soon. i will work on the prototypes designs until then. (plz help the noob - me)
If this is truly parametric, Mr Freedman, could you please release 4-unit high boxes? I have a storage box with a lid, and inside is 4-units high (which means the lid would cover the top and stop things falling out). I need 1x1x4, 2x1x4, and 4x1x4, with the corresponding range of compartments (1, 2, 3 & 5). Please! I don't have Fusion, sorry.
Not so fast, but mission accomplished. I needed to chop the top part off a 6-unit box, the bottom back part (under the label) of a 6-unit box, and the bottom front part with the curve from a 3-unit box.
Here's the code. It works for a 1-compartment box, and I think it will work for divided boxes.
// Height of top is 7 x n + 3.8 mm
// To make a 4u box, we cut a 6u box down by 14 mm
union() {
// Top section, with label plate
translate([0,0,-14])
intersection(){
import("Divider Box 1x1x6 1-Compartment.stl");
translate([0,0,30.8])
cube([42,42,30]);
}
// front section, with curve
intersection() {
import("Divider Box 1x1x3 1-Compartment.stl");
cube([42,25,17.8]);
}
// back section, under label
intersection() {
import("Divider Box 1x1x6 1-Compartment.stl");
translate([0,25,0])
cube([42,21,16.8]);
}
I should be able to import the STL for the 3-unit box into OpenSCAD twice, chop the top off one copy and the bottom off another, and stick them together to make a taller version.
Hey, great job. I am pumping plastic like a maniac.
I noticed that the 4x1x6 1-Compartment part is missing magnet holes, and the rounded thingy in the bottom. Perhaps was generated with a previous revision of the design?
Those are explicitly not present as you can make those up with 4 and 3 1x1x6 1-C. If you want them to print in one piece, just place them at the right spots in your slicer and it should be able to print everything as one piece.
I printed 3x1x2 and 3x1x3 and I can confirm you are correct. They're the same dimensions, the only difference between them is that one has the tab to attach a label and the other does not
Ive updated the fusion files to work with up to 10x10 bins in any orientation, I havent got subdivision working.
https://github.com/bakerboy908/Gridfinity_Parametric_Boxes
If someone wants to get the divider bit working id love that :)
I have some serious learning to do. tried to open the .f3d in F360 and it failed. someday when I am not a noob, I will probably appreciate whatever you did here to help make these boxes more generically useful and flexible. lol
These are amazing boxes. I am just new to 3D printing and haven’t figured out fusion 360 at all yet. You wouldn’t happen to be working on 2x2x6 and 2x3x6 boxes would you? Those would be super additions for larger screws and such. Great stuff and I love your YouTube also!
There's a problem with the holes for m3 screws. The first few layers when the holes are printed tell the printer to print a circle in mid-air. I think I don't have to tell you that unless we get rid of gravity, that's not gonna print well. Here's how it looks like.
And here is how EVA project fixed it by tricking the slicer to make a bridge there.
Also, the corners REALLY like warping. And my bed adhesion is very strong, too strong for some parts. There's just not enough surface area around the magnet recess. I don't think there is an easy solution except moving the magnets more inwards and maybe using a brim(I'm gonna try that tomorrow).
Other than that, GREAT JOB! Thanks for making it open source. I decided to build my entire storage system around Gridfinity.
Same issue, I ended up printing with supports 'touching buildplate only' with roof interface. Kind of annoying but the holes are small so it doesn't add much to print time.
+1. chamfers would be fine, vs prusa style which isn't as tolerant to different layer thicknesses. I guess a lot of these are gonna be printed fast with thick layers...
it'd be great if the prusa style bridging holes were incorporated - I edited the parametric model to incorporate chamfers instead of horizontal overhangs
Printing with a 1mm nozzle to save time. ended up wasting 1kg in a night because the "print thin walls" option wasn't selected. Use a 0.6mm as mentioned or select this option (in Cura)
hi zack can i get some clarity on what you have written here about the ledge. you have said if the ledge is over 40mm long it sags so if a compartment is longer than 40mm long the ledge must be cut to 40mm long and justified right/right,left/right,center,left depending on the number of compartments how does this relate to the 2x1 boxs with only one compartment, i have printed a couple of these with now sagging and the ledge spans both units meaning it must be about 80mm wide?
Unfortunately, I didn't have time to make the label ledge fully parametric. If you'd like to do this, I can give you write access to the project. These need to be implemented:
2-unit-high bins are too short for the ledge, so it needs to be omitted when the height is 1/3 or lower
If the label ledge is more than 40mm long, the overhang will sag, so when compartments are more than 40mm wide, the label ledge needs to be cut short.
If there's exactly one compartment more than 40mm wide, the label ledge should be right-justified for consistency.
If there are exactly two compartments more than 40mm wide, the label ledges should be justified left and right for visual balance.
If there are exactly three compartments more than 40mm wide, the label ledges should be justified left, center, and right for visual balance.
If there are more than three compartments more than 40mm wide, the label ledges should all be justified right, for consistency
Otherwise, the label ledge can go all the way from one wall to the other
As it stands, I had to do all this manually, so that's why there are so many suppressed grouped extrudes and chamfers...
Discussions — Gridfinity Divider Bins
Just as a warning to people who like magnets: the following models are missing magnet holes on the bottom of the bin.
Divider Box 3x1x2 1-Compartment Divider Box 3x1x3 1-Compartment Divider Box 4x1x3 1-Compartment Divider Box 4x1x6 1-Compartment Divider Box 5x1x6 3-Compartment
No one man should have all that power!
Just wanted to mention that the box 3x1x2 1 compartment appears to actually be the same height as 3x1x3 1 compartment without the label part
Anywhere where I can get 2 or more row versions of these? Or is there a non-Fusion 360 version of the parametric file? Fusion 360 is not Linux friendly
EDIT: Found an answer: https://github.com/kennetek/gridfinity-rebuilt-openscad
This is great, except that I have already heavily invested in 50x50mm as the base dimensions. Changing the slotDimension parameter from 42mm to 50mm changes the basic unit size, however the base is not correctly scaled and the label doesn't size correctly (it becomes too wide!). I don't know Fusion360 enough to identify what the issue is, would anybody else who is more capable than me be able to fix this parameter to correctly scale up?
How do you get access to the Fusion 360 parametric source file? When I click on the link, I get the following error message:
"Unauthorized
Sorry, you don't have permission to access this page."
I have the Personal license for Fusion 360.
How do I delete the label tag on these things?
How do I delete the label tabs? I want a bin for planting seeds, and while I am at it, can anyone tell me how to put a taper on the inside of the bin? The taper helps get the seedling out of the bin without damaging the roots. Any help is very, very much appreciated.
Zack, how can I taper the inside panels of the boxes so I can use them for planting seeds and place a drainage hole (or holes) in the bottom of the boxes? I would like the outside of the boxes to be square - or rectangular - but I need the inside to be tapered so the boxes will fit in the What Is The Meaning Of Life design? Please help this slightly decaying ADHD old man figure this out.
The 3x1x2 is the same height as the 3x1x3 but without the label. All the other x2 bins are shorter.
Great design, this is something I've been looking for recently, and there happens to be some leftover ABS filament at home.
Hi, Guys, Does anyone know which is the parameter to make the Divider Box taller in Fusion360?
what is the third number when these are described? 1X8X6? I know its width X length, but how is the height measured?
Height is in 7mm increments (e.g. x6 would be 42mm high)
Very excited about this system. I downloaded Autodesk Fusion (Free) just so I could manipulate the file to create different variations with the parameters. Has anyone experimented with making the magnet holes smaller so magnets can be pressed in without adhesive? Also...what's the point of the small (nail?) holes behind the magnet holes in the bins? They don't go through, so why are they there? Arguably, those are what's complicating the layer spanning the magnet hole, needing those supports.
Great Thanks for that... I have only one issue and that is the divider walls... no matter what I change in Parameters nothing happens. Any help on that?
What is the secret to printing these (all gridfinity blocks, not just this one) so that the magnet/screw holes aren't filled with unremovable supports? I've got the adhesion down and the rest of it prints just fine, but I've tried to print with and without supports. Without supports, where the magnet/screw holes narrow, it tries to print a floating circle with nothing to adhere to. With supports, I can't get them out to use the magnets like I want to.
Print alternative bins like Gridfinity Rebuilt, which a "printable slit" design where the printer can bridge across without supports.There's also Gridfinity Refined where the magnets slide into a special slot without being glued down, also prints without supports. They are all compatible with each other so you can experiment!
The parametric source code seems to have issues. When creating a bin beyond the base 1x3 it stops putting in the magnet holes and the Divider parameter doesn't do anything.
Hello, Which parameters it's use on cura for : -Infill
Thanks
I think you have to lower the label "platforms" cause they are interfering with stacked boxes on top. Especially when you are using DYMO style embossing labels, which have their own thickness.
https://imgur.com/a/4umNb8S
gridtacular
Hey guys, I am looking for a 5x4 divider box, but I want one long compartment across the top. The openscad modifier wont allow me to do this, but it gets close. Anyone know an easy way I can modify it? I think i would be ok just taking the walls out of the top row, but i am not familiar with openscad.
In the Cura slicer, it is easy to add filament blocking shapes, which might be an easy way to combine compartments by cutting the walls out during slicing.
how i download this as an stl, its a zip file
download the zip file and extract the stl files
I'm trying to edit the AutoDesk model parameters to get variants of the boxes without the label bar. I'm getting errors when trying to change the number of slots.
Video of changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4pbiao69fg Edited model: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11SN-eW5hRD-TVLA0ixxy6Op2EBFhT1YH/view?usp=share_link
got the same issue :/
I need a reason to get 3d printing. will try these.
It would be cool to have all your gridfinity models on Github, so you can just clone the entire repo and easily update if you make changes. There are just so many models. Awesome system by the way!
Zack, I'm obsessed with Gridfinity, and I so appreciate the work you put into it... so I decided to pay homage to you in my first 3D Printing related YouTube video. Hope you enjoy my little humorous bits ;) https://youtu.be/KtbKwAuwv9s
I really like the gridfinity system but I have some troubles with the fusion file. The dividers don't seem to work properly no matter what size or number of dividers I choose I only have one compartment. Also, it would be helpful to name the important steps in the timeline for better clarity.
They don't. It's not you. The file that you can download is broken upon opening it. There are two timeline errors right away.
nice stof, but the "Divider Box 4x1x3 1-Compartment" is mising the ez scoop up thing
Thank you so much for the gridfinity system. I have used it to organize a lot of my workshop. Now I am printing custom boxes for my bathroom and other parts of my home. I love this system!!
Zack, the parametric drawing breaks if youre trying to change dimensions of the basic box (ya, Im a bad person) but if, on sketch 3, you add an enforced outer radius of 4 and a colinear constraint of any of the external lines of sketch 3 to any of the overlapping lines of sketch 1 it fixes itself.
Thanks!
i am a bad person too, did you have any luck?
I presume "trying to change dimensions of the basic box" means changing the value of the slotDimension parameter? If yes, do you have an updated fusion 360 file with your changes, as it is not clear (to me) what your fixes are. Thanks, Jim
Can you do some 2 wide bins? mainly looking for a 4x2x6 1 compartment. How do I do this myself too?
Hello! Thank you for all of this. This is amazing.
One note. While editing the parametric file in Fusion, if I adjust the "slotsDeep" to anything other than 1, the holes for the magnets don't repeat in that direction. They repeat in the "slotsWide" no problem.
Any fix for this? Or am I doing something wrong?
Double click "Extrude 2" (the one that extrudes the main body) then click OK, you should now only have 1 body and the magnet holes pattern should work correctly.
In fact, I just added magnet holes.
That is why I wrote the script (see my comment below). That said, someone needs to add magnet holes but that should be easy.
this is fantastic, but the parametric file is a bit broken, I cant change the sticker shelf length, and when I try to make a 1w x 3d the model breaks giving the box a top and the sticker shelf floating in mid air and an extra wall...
I don't think it's actually possible to do this without scripting. So, I wrote a script: https://github.com/benlaurie/gfdb.
You rock! This seems to work great. You have a lot of work in it. Thanks!
Thank you for this script, I've used it to create a ton of bins custom to the sizes I want as I wanted larger bins. When I set the numbers for slotsWide and slotsDeep to 1 it comes out flat with no walls. Anyway to have this do custom height 1x1 boxes?
if anybody can send me the measurements of the bottom shape/design + the measurement of the top edges/design. (the interlocking system design). + the thickness of the walls. in a Direct Message, i can have the next level of this concept ready soon. i will work on the prototypes designs until then. (plz help the noob - me)
Can someone make a 2x2x6 1 compartment holder?
If this is truly parametric, Mr Freedman, could you please release 4-unit high boxes? I have a storage box with a lid, and inside is 4-units high (which means the lid would cover the top and stop things falling out). I need 1x1x4, 2x1x4, and 4x1x4, with the corresponding range of compartments (1, 2, 3 & 5). Please! I don't have Fusion, sorry.
Not so fast, but mission accomplished. I needed to chop the top part off a 6-unit box, the bottom back part (under the label) of a 6-unit box, and the bottom front part with the curve from a 3-unit box.
Here's the code. It works for a 1-compartment box, and I think it will work for divided boxes.
// Height of top is 7 x n + 3.8 mm
// To make a 4u box, we cut a 6u box down by 14 mm
union() {
// Top section, with label plate translate([0,0,-14]) intersection(){ import("Divider Box 1x1x6 1-Compartment.stl"); translate([0,0,30.8]) cube([42,42,30]); }
// front section, with curve intersection() { import("Divider Box 1x1x3 1-Compartment.stl"); cube([42,25,17.8]); }
// back section, under label intersection() { import("Divider Box 1x1x6 1-Compartment.stl"); translate([0,25,0]) cube([42,21,16.8]); }
}
Replying to myself...
I should be able to import the STL for the 3-unit box into OpenSCAD twice, chop the top off one copy and the bottom off another, and stick them together to make a taller version.
There. I fixed it.
The parametric version doesn't seem to do dividers - did I miss something?
Hey, great job. I am pumping plastic like a maniac.
I noticed that the 4x1x6 1-Compartment part is missing magnet holes, and the rounded thingy in the bottom. Perhaps was generated with a previous revision of the design?
Hi Zack, This is awesome Any chance of having STLs for:
Just asking because It would be handy
Those are explicitly not present as you can make those up with 4 and 3 1x1x6 1-C. If you want them to print in one piece, just place them at the right spots in your slicer and it should be able to print everything as one piece.
make em? its open source for a reason. (=
I think the 3x1x2 1-compartment STL is wrong, it looks like it's 3 units high instead of 2.
I printed 3x1x2 and 3x1x3 and I can confirm you are correct. They're the same dimensions, the only difference between them is that one has the tab to attach a label and the other does not
Ive updated the fusion files to work with up to 10x10 bins in any orientation, I havent got subdivision working. https://github.com/bakerboy908/Gridfinity_Parametric_Boxes If someone wants to get the divider bit working id love that :)
Screw holes go all the way through, is this intentional. Id like the option for magnets, no screws.
I have some serious learning to do. tried to open the .f3d in F360 and it failed. someday when I am not a noob, I will probably appreciate whatever you did here to help make these boxes more generically useful and flexible. lol
These are amazing boxes. I am just new to 3D printing and haven’t figured out fusion 360 at all yet. You wouldn’t happen to be working on 2x2x6 and 2x3x6 boxes would you? Those would be super additions for larger screws and such. Great stuff and I love your YouTube also!
There's a problem with the holes for m3 screws. The first few layers when the holes are printed tell the printer to print a circle in mid-air. I think I don't have to tell you that unless we get rid of gravity, that's not gonna print well. Here's how it looks like.
And here is how EVA project fixed it by tricking the slicer to make a bridge there.
Also, the corners REALLY like warping. And my bed adhesion is very strong, too strong for some parts. There's just not enough surface area around the magnet recess. I don't think there is an easy solution except moving the magnets more inwards and maybe using a brim(I'm gonna try that tomorrow).
Other than that, GREAT JOB! Thanks for making it open source. I decided to build my entire storage system around Gridfinity.
hi, I'm using this method for a long time now and it's working just fine. https://youtu.be/IVtqAn4oDDE Regards, Peter
Same issue, I ended up printing with supports 'touching buildplate only' with roof interface. Kind of annoying but the holes are small so it doesn't add much to print time.
+1. chamfers would be fine, vs prusa style which isn't as tolerant to different layer thicknesses. I guess a lot of these are gonna be printed fast with thick layers...
it'd be great if the prusa style bridging holes were incorporated - I edited the parametric model to incorporate chamfers instead of horizontal overhangs
You missed the plain old box, no label ledge, no chamfered inner edge. Just boxes...
Thank you good Sir, was in the process of figuring out my own system as I'm moving into a new workshop space and wanted to start things off right.
Printing with a 1mm nozzle to save time. ended up wasting 1kg in a night because the "print thin walls" option wasn't selected. Use a 0.6mm as mentioned or select this option (in Cura)
Definitely looking forward to organizing my life! Thank you so very much for the informative YouTube, creating, and sharing the files. Thank you Sir!
is this another video sponsored by thangs?
Nope. I just don't trust Thingiverse search to actually show Gridfinity parts, and Printables doesn't work well with bulk uploads.
But think about all those Prusameters you could have :P
I think its just a long term partnership thing, where he uses thangs for any uploads
This is pretty awesome! I can't wait to print these, however there seem to be a number of issues in the Fusion 360 files:
Anyone else seeing same issues?
hi zack can i get some clarity on what you have written here about the ledge. you have said if the ledge is over 40mm long it sags so if a compartment is longer than 40mm long the ledge must be cut to 40mm long and justified right/right,left/right,center,left depending on the number of compartments how does this relate to the 2x1 boxs with only one compartment, i have printed a couple of these with now sagging and the ledge spans both units meaning it must be about 80mm wide?
thank you for your work bakerboiii
Hey Alex, I fixed the files to be able to resize in any config up to 10x10. https://github.com/bakerboy908/Gridfinity_Parametric_Boxes
Unfortunately, I didn't have time to make the label ledge fully parametric. If you'd like to do this, I can give you write access to the project. These need to be implemented:
As it stands, I had to do all this manually, so that's why there are so many suppressed grouped extrudes and chamfers...