FreeCAD Make-A-Box Generator
I just dropped this on Printables: A FreeCAD based custom size box generator. I've been using it for all kinds of stuff. Maybe some of you lot will get some use out of it, too.
https://www.printables.com/model/770701-parametric-simple-custom-box-maker-freecad-generat
Plug in your parameters, make a box with filament hinges -- No hardware required. No screws, no nuts, no supports, no glue, no Fusion, no proprietary software, no going cross-eyed looking at OpenSCAD code.
(And yes, the default size in the file will make an M:tG card deck case.)
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That is not properly secure storage for such a valuable item
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I suggest uploading some default-size STLs so we can view the parts in 3D.
Capital idea. Done, and the Printable has been updated.
nice 45° angles.
Not my first rodeo with holes printed vertically.
Cool, thanks!
Sweet!
Cool. Hope to print one later. Last week I have been searching for exactly this and could not find it. Did you think about an option for adding some simple dividers inside the box?
I'm sure there will inevitably be innumerable variants. I was thinking of adding a generator for Gridfinity inserts, and dividers wouldn't be too tough to add, either. Or handles, or swivel latches, etc., etc.
I have a few parametric projects I posed on my github:
https://github.com/profdc9/FreeCADParametricModels
One of them is called "Memorybox" and is a gift box I made that has parametrically definable dimensions, and the text embossed on it can be changed as well.
I think you could improve the latch design by making it curved, with a large-diameter circle centered on the hinge. But I tried to sketch this in FreeCAD, and my circles are coming out as jaggy polygons instead of round. How do people get anything done with this software?
Just because it renders that way doesn't mean it is. Depending on your zoom level and probably settings, FreeCAD will simplify the rendering on your screen for performance.
If you used the circle tool in a sketch, the final output when you export or whatever will be a circle.
It generated printable Black Lotuses? Jackpot!
For Version 2.0, I plan to add a feature that can do Moxes. You choose the color.
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