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I’ve been at it again.

I’ve been using the hell out of these drawer thingies, what with you fill with Gridfinity bins and store pocketknives various things in.

Well, I screwed myself over and it turns out I need a stack of drawers one cell narrower than stock. The original author posted sources in Onshape but I will be buggered if I’m signing up for Yet Another Account just for that.

So I reconstructed the entire thing – my way – in FreeCAD. Because obviously that’s the less insane option. (I guess this also allowed me to excise the magnet ears from the drawers, which is a worthless increase in print time and small waste of material for me since I don’t use magnets with my Gridfinity bins)

Anyway, here it is.

This is my dinky 2x2 test print. Which is very nearly but not quite completely useless. (For instance, it fits Nite-Ize cable ties very well, as you can see.) If it makes you feel any better, the generator absolutely will make you a 1x1, 1u tall drawer assembly if you ask it to which truly will be fully useless…

    • GreyBeard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      It’s getting a lot better. It reminds me of how Blender took off. I’ve been messing with it and just updated to 1.0. I think it has a lot of work left for casual user onboarding, but the bugs are less and the crashes less common than ever. It’s getting there. Hopefully the foundation they set with 1.0 will propel them into the future.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I never knew such a thing existed, but I’ll look into it.

      I don’t touch the workbenches much. Up until now I’ve never found a use for them, and most of the ones I’ve tried on a lark tended to be buggy enough to be more trouble than they’re worth.

  • GreyBeard@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Thanks for posting this. I, too, have a FreeCAD model on Printables that I was using an embedded spreadsheet for, but I never noticed the “alias” text box. That will pretty up my model so much. I’ve been doing cell number references like “B8” and it is both ugly and painful.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      There are two ways to do that, actually. You can right click on a cell and use its properties window to add an alias, too. The alias box in the upper right is fairly new-ish, I think. I don’t remember when it was added, but I seem to recall pre version 0.2 you had to do it the long way, which was both A) hidden, and B) a faff.