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Gridfinity Eco

My Gridfinity bins are discontinued.

I am working on a new standard for better storage density, print efficiency, and customizability, mainly designed for deeper drawers (5cm~7.5cm), with the downside of no stacking (by default), and the lack of a community.

I am still extremely grateful that Clickfinity (ClickPlates) caught the community's attention, and brought this little repository to 100+ stars. I'm really happy that my little project made a magnet-less hold-down system an option, and saved people from buying thousands of magnets, extra filament to print the thicker baseplates and compatible bins, and the time to painstakingly glue in the magnets.

The reasons are as follows:

  • Gridfinity's 42mm standard is too small for fingers to reach in, unless we make the bins shallow, which compromises storage density.
  • Gridfinity bins are stackable, but just how many bins are stacked in your configuration? I personally do not find the universally stackable feature useful, especially when you usually can only stack a same size or-bigger bin onto multiple smaller bins and not the other way around.
  • The stackable lip on the Gridfinity bins make the walls thicker, or creates a lip that makes taking out parts difficult.
  • A gridfinity bin that is not 1x1 will take up a lot of depth to fill the base to make the bottom of the bin flat.
  • I rarely download premade Gridfinity storage blocks, because they rarely fit my needs. Designing one myself takes minimal time for basic stuff (like battery holders) and for complex stuff, the ones you find on the Internet usually don't fit my needs (like scissors). Therefore, I do not miss the community.

Check out Rackfinity for my new standard.

My repository for my cost-aware Gridfinity setup

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Yes, no labels yet

Update: here are my labels

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ClickPlates

No magnets

Innovative ClickPlates allow bins to be secured to their base plates without any magnets, which cut down costs by at least half.
Bins do not need to fill the entire base with plastic infill to leave space for magnets, which saves on plastic use. Even if you buy thousands of low grade neodymium magnets on Chinese websites, the costs still adds up.

Although, in fact, I'm not even planning on using ClickPlates for my parts storage, as they will be packed fairly tight so they don't move around. Also the bins are meant to be taken out or moved around as inventory changes, so a loose mount is fine for me.

This is a baseplate design that holds on to any Gridfinity block without magnets. Magnets are quite expensive, and using 8 of them for each cell just doesn't seem economical. Also you don't have to worry about the magnet holes hoverhangs, or the extra thickness and space wasted on the bins.

DO NOT PRINT IN PLA as it will creep and completely lose its springiness in a few days.

Remix by NoWarrenty on Printables

Additional features

  • joinable with edge and corner connector pieces
  • built-in screwholes
  • comes with more sizes

Remix by FPV Smitty on Printables

Additional features

  • fits in the Refined Baseplates ecosystem
  • joins together even more elegantly imo

I haven't tackle my base plate situation, as I am still building my new shelf. Also I still haven't think of any innovations from the current design, so these are the best places to enter the ClickPlates ecosystem.

PartsBinV2

Parts scoop and label tab with minimum plastic use

Current design is based on Gridfinity LITE Ultra Blocks & Template by Masibu, with modified scoop and label tabs to improve part stability and printability. Each kilo of matte PLA filament spool fits 95 1x1x6 bins, so with each spool costing less than 12USD from eSUN, this storage system is actually both cheaper and customizable than commercial options.

Maximum parts access

At least for 1x1 bins, the labels are just too big, and it is difficult to fit a finger and scoop around parts. The label height is reduced for more finger space. Also a solid slope with 60 degree overhang is used to print the label holder, instead of bridging from the original design by Masibu, to maximize printability and stability of the label holder. The bottoms of the bins are filled in with flat bases, so parts don't get stuck in the ridges. The scoop radius is kept, but radius is reduced so the bins can fit as much stuff as possible.

Print time is not a top priority for these bins, so it doesn't use vase mode. My previous design of economic bins use vase mode, which is extremely lightweight, but it is quite fragile, and many of the bins didn't last long before cracking on the layer lines, especially when used with ClickPlates. The current design uses more than double of the filament, but is way more rigid, and is more flexible, with nice part scoops and label tabs. I can also easily fit as many bins as long as it fits on the build plate, instead of 4 with vase mode.

Print Settings

  • Slicer: Prusa Slicer
  • Print settings:
    • Layer height: 0.2mm (0.15mm for ClickPlates)
    • Perimeters: 2
    • Solid layers: 3 top; 2 bottom
    • Infill: 10% Grid
    • Default extrusion width: 0.4mm
      • First layer: 0.6mm
      • Infill: 0.4mm
      • Infill/Perimeters overlap: 40%
  • Printer: Creality Ender 5 S1 (running Klipper, with stock Creality 5S1 PEI build plate)
    • Speed: 500mm/s
    • Acceleration: 5000mm/s2
    • Corner velocity: 20mm/s
    • Retraction length: 0.7mm at 45mm/s
    • Lift Z: 0.3mm
  • Filament: eSUN ePLA Matte (white)
    • Nozzle temperature: 215 degrees Celcius
    • Bed temperature: 60 degrees Celcius
    • Fan speed: 100% on layer 2
    • Minimum layer time: 2s