Gridfinity allows you to organize just about anything! Well lets test out 3 different ways of designing bins to store any object of any shape!
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Gridfinity Files!
Where it all started! – Gridfinity by Zack Freedman https://www.youtube.com/@ZackFreedman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8
Gridfinity Reddit Community
https://www.reddit.com/r/gridfinity/
Gridfinity Generator
https://gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/
📋 Gridfinity Master Collection by GlitchPrinter
https://www.printables.com/model/242711-gridfinity-master-collection
📏 Gridfinity Ruler by engineering by coincidence
https://makerworld.com/en/models/856330#profileId-805694
🔥 Hacksmith Mini Saber Gridfinity Bin
https://www.printables.com/model/1120037-hacksmith-mini-saber-gridfinity-holder
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🍌 Banana for Scale Gridfinity Bin
https://www.printables.com/model/1120045-banana-for-scale-gridfinity-holder
https://makerworld.com/en/models/910347#profileId-871093
Banana For Scale by Sevro
https://www.printables.com/model/516674-banana-for-scale/
Basic Banan by Wilko
https://www.printables.com/model/135167-banana-01/
Gridfinity Base for Kobalt Workbench Drawers by Makerstufferupper
https://makerworld.com/en/models/872259#profileId-824377
Gridfinity Generator
https://gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/
Fusion360 Custom Tool Organizers by youtube.com/@PhilVandelay
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00:00 – Custom Gridfinity Bins
02:35 – Trace to SVG
05:58 – Basic Shapes
07:14 – Digital Tracing
10:37 – Time to 3D Print
12:00 – Test Slice
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Merry Xmas! Having fun experimenting with some different ways of designing custom inserts!
I know that getting started with designing solutions specific to your needs can be intimidating. What a great video to get people into 3D design!
inkscape, photopea also work
Have used Tinkercad a bunch of times over the years. It seems simple but is there is tons you can do in it.
Another option for getting scale from a picture, is if you include the piece of paper, the paper itself is a standard size. For regular letter paper its 8.5"x11", and you can find the dimensions of all other standard size sheets online.
The SVG Scaling issue on import is pretty annoying – I don't know how photopea is defining theirs, but this happened a lot when I was exporting from illustrator and importing to cad tools like Easel. 96 vs 72 units per inch (so I'd have to scale to 4/3, or shrink to 3/4. Or sometimes scale to 5/4 (old versions of inkscape maybe?)).
Nice tutorial!
Instead of using your phone to take a picture you can use a flat bed scanner, it won't have any distortion problems and should be to scale.
Awesome video! I love using my XL to add a TPU liner in the middle of the container for cushion
@UncleJessy To make it even easier, i.e. without paper etc., you can also simply place the part on a document scanner. This means you don't have to pay so much attention to taking the photo as accurately as possible from above, because the scanner takes care of that.
6:25 @UncleJessy where did you get the files for the mini saber I would like to know because I would like to make a gridfinity bin for my mini saber
Pro tip when taking a picture is to include some measurement in the picture. Small ruler, etc.
I have found that when I trace an complicated object its accuracy is lost with the pen free hand . To over come this issue I have created a "Tracing Tool" (Kowala) on Makerworld to over come this.
Also some sticky tack to hold the object parrallel to the tracing paper.
Hope this will help
Thanks for the video. I now have new ambition to gidfinity everything in my house. 🙂
One tip on making a photo: try to do it from as far away possible. Closer proximity tends to give more of a fish eye effect.
3D Scanner ? Photogrammetry ?
Man, for $100 that Shaper Trace tool is a massive time-saver. That was an instant buy after you mentioned that. TO SCALE, and auto-trace of outline OR center-line. That's super useful for anyone dealing with vector files. Hopefully they'll make an app that doesn't need the cloud to make it perfect, but if you value your time that's a great find.
Nice tutorial and thanks for the shout out to my model in makerworld. I'm in the middle of organizing items in my Kobalt workbench too and the tips in your video and very helpful!
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Great video! When scaling in TinkerCAD you can make your reference cube transparent by pressing the T key. It'll make resizing the reference easier.
I really love your banana for scale that is so nice
The Cool Uncle strikes again. 😛 Thanks, Jessy!
I love Gridfinity, but at some point you're not saving space, you're wasting it.
Basic boxes of different sizes are really all you need.
Years ago filament Friday made a video with a similar problem and he used a photocopy machine just to get the outline of the object you needed to reproduce
With these kind of tolerances it doesn't really matter and taking a photo of a traced, flat outline helps also. But as some have mentioned, taking a photo of an object that close creates parallax error, which in turn doesn't translate well to a gridfinity bin (ask me how I know 😅)
1) Lay a ruler next to your object
2) Take a photo from your object
3) Import it into Fusion
4) Calibrate the photo with the ruler
5) Draw the sketch exactly how in method nr. 3 in the video with lines and splines
6) extrude the sketch and subtract it from your gridfinity base
All of this is easy doable in fusion without the need of 2-3 different softwares …
iPhones now have a “scan” feature that will remove the parallax if you dont take the picture directly above
It's Pho-topea…it rhymes with Utopia
What happened to your eye?
I haven’t even watched the first 10 seconds and I want to personally thank you and send you a thank you coffee when can I send the donation!!! ❤🎉❤
so i have a elegoo neptune 3 max and i got it right after seeing you're video, but Ive had problems ever since like the extruding and bed adhesion and under extrusion and most times its coming out squishy so would it be possible to see what settings you had for that specific printer cuz the quality difference im getting is extreme?
Do you have some white eyelashes?! Thats so cool!
theres an app for phones called microsoft scan, it allows you to get flat shots easier and adjust the corners to be falt etc