I saw this video a few days ago and thought it may be of use to some of you on here. I know not everyone has a 3d printer as well on this forum but those that do may find this interesting.
I especially have been wanting to reorganize my bits/work-holding drawer I have under my shapeoko and this looks like the ticket to me at first glance.
Wow, he can communicate. Wish my brain was that fast.
Looks great. I will have to try it out.
For those who don’t do videos, this was the subject of a Hack-a-day article:
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This has come up a few times since, and I’m considering standardizing on it myself — towards that end, I have made and printed one small case as a test:
which worked well to hold most of my odd drill bits and associated odds-and-ends.
However, the most interesting Gridfinity case design:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gridfinity/comments/1mgmjth/gridpacone_no_status_update_this_time_just_the/
is a bit more than I want to take on (and due to patent considerations, doesn’t use the nifty T-loc).There is a wooden variation:
for which there is a PDF drawing, so adapting that to make on the machine seems promising, but the first thing which is needed is a baseplate in Carbide Create (assuming that it makes more sense to cut one as part of cutting the bottom of the box…)
Given that the dimensions are written up at:
and I’ve rather consciously chosen not to use magnets, this should be pretty straight-forward:
The underlying grid is 42mm square:
so it should be pretty-straight-forward to just draw up the geometry and assign toolpaths to cut this into a surface…
The baseplate grid is simply a pair of nested rounded squares:
with appropriate toolpaths:
to appropriate depths…
until one arrives at the lowest angled section:
which wants an 0.7mm diameter 90 degree V endmill with a rather long/delicate shank…
Initial preview (once geometry association w/ toolpath was fixed) seems promising:
I was wondering when we would see some fruits of your labor you’ve been creating? The case/tray assembly look really good. Nice print.
Is the reason for the Vcarve for ease of alignment into the grid when placing the containers into the grid?
Thanks! (the default settings for basic PLA in the Elegoo Slicer worked well for an old roll of Amazon Basics PLA printed on my Centauri Carbon on the textured baseplate)
Yes, the V carve matches the geometry of the Gridfinity baseplates (bins too if one adjusted the dimensions and reversed things by adding surrounding geometry and was willing to make a two-sided cut).
I thought that was the point of it. Thanks.
Drawing up the baseplate in profile, as well as a 1/8" 90 degree V endmill we get:
So if the bottom pocket/angle is increased in depth by:
we should be able to preserve that geometry, but a V carving toolpath would not work since it might try to lift out at an angle — instead, we use a No Offset Contour at the appropriate depth and if we also cut all the way through with the V tool, it shouldn’t be an issue to find a small enough square endmill to finish the cut.
When can we expect the cutrocket upload 
