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.
@halfpress so when I did this the process was as follows:
1 take picture
2 trace in inkscape
3 measure tool and use ruler in inkscape to scale.
4 import into OpenSCAD and scale to 1.02
5 linear extrude and difference from bin stl
6 print
Had much better results than tool trace ai
Bonus: print a 50x50x1.5 cube and use it in the picture as a scale
@ahasty I’m following a similar but slightly different path. I’m experimenting with using a flatbed scanner for the reference image with a small metric ruler in it for scaling accurately. It eliminates lens distortion and parallax issues I get using anything short of a telephoto at a distance.
The tracing happens in Fusion 360 currently and fundamentally follows a similar process to what you describe. Going to try FreeCAD as well since I’m curious to learn it.
@ahasty This flatbed is actually an Epson inkjet multifunction printer that I abandoned as a printer eons ago. Got so sick of the ink hassles, but the scanner in it does flatbed but, more importantly, double sided self feed quite well. So it takes up space in addition to our Canon laser with the crappier scanner whose flatbed lid is now refusing to open properly.
I really hate printers for the most part. :)
Aaron Mahler
theHastyOne