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height in design reference does not match other user models #16

Open yertle opened 1 year ago

yertle commented 1 year ago

The Design Reference here lists 0U=14mm, 1U=21mm, and the lip adds 3mm. This does not match other 3rd-party models, such as https://github.com/kennetek/gridfinity-rebuilt-openscad. There are pros and cons to both approaches. The downside of the gridfinity.xyz approach is that stacking a 0U on top of a 0U is the height of 2U, or 1U+1U=4U. There could also be a use case of a 7mm-high riser, which would be -1U with the xyz spec.

I think it makes more sense to define 2U=14mm, and everything is in increments of 7mm.

Regardless of which spec "wins" - we definitely have an inconsistency with the xyz spec and popular parametric models in use, and that means we could all be printing bins that are incompatible with each other. Sure, the height is not as important, but if you want to stack across bins then NU should always be a consistent height.

I was going to edit the design reference and submit a PR, but I do not see the SVG source in the repo. Is there an editable source available?

willtree8 commented 1 year ago

Hiya, designer here, sorry for the slow reply - been super busy recently. I totally agree, my first draft of the height units has been bugging me for some time and I have fixed it in v5 of the spec. I'll submit a PR for that now. PR here #18 And you're right, there's no editable source available currently. I design in illustrator but I appreciate thats not particuarly accessible for many so I can upload SVGs rather than ai files if that works better. I'll have a look into it :)

Thanks!

yertle commented 1 year ago

AI and SVG source files would probably be useful! I have Illustrator (although I'm no expert), so I could edit the AI if you want some help.

Thanks for the reply!

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Hiya, designer here, sorry for the slow reply - been super busy recently. I totally agree, my first draft of the height units has been bugging me for some time and I have fixed it in v5 of the spec. I'll submit a PR for that now. And you're right, there's no editable source available currently. I design in illustrator but I appreciate thats not particuarly accessible for many so I can upload SVGs rather than ai files if that works better. I'll have a look into it :)

Thanks!

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