Aaron Mahler6d ago

So I have most of the zillion individual components sorted into labeled, standard #gridfinity bins in the workbench drawers now.

Now I'm delving into the custom holders for various tools and, frankly, it's a lot of fun. I gave tooltrace.ai a spin, but it was pretty buggy and not generating precise enough shapes for my tastes, so I'm just doing the designs myself in Fusion 360. I'm testing my own modified method and will share the workflow if it continues to work well.

#3dprinting

Show threadChris Huck6d ago
@halfpress You should use the Gridfinity workbench in FreeCAD and kick Fusion to the curb.
Show threadAaron Mahler
@chrishuck glad you said this because FreeCAD is on my machine and has been high on my list to explore. I’ve been wanting to kick the Fusion habit for a good while. Maybe Gridfinity is the ideal opportunity and I wasn’t aware of this workbench you mention… thanks!
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Show threadChris Huck6d ago

@halfpress Awesome! It makes creating custom bins and grids a lot easier. Turning on and off the stuff you need or don’t. You can use the Part Design workbench to make necessary cuts/additions to the bins or grids.

Here’s an example of some custom bearing press holders I made for a friend.

Show threadAaron Mahler6d ago
@chrishuck Nice! I was just looking at the Workbench GitHub and am eager to try it. I’m using a similar plugin for Fusion to generate my base bins, then either tracing images to extrude the sketch into the bin or modeling parts outright and using them as tools to cut from the bin body. I assume I’d use a similar workflow (?), but I need to get familiar with the FreeCAD UI and methodologies.