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Gridfinity Extended OpenSCAD Model
https://docs.ostat.com/docs/openscad/gridfinity-extended
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request: no lip, but full height #48

Open avxmw opened 3 days ago

avxmw commented 3 days ago

It does not currently seem possible, if it is pointers would be nice.

I'd like the option to remove the lip (already existing) but keep the height as if a lip was there. I want to be able to mix boxes with and without lips having a uniform height.

ostat commented 3 days ago

I think what you are asking for is the minimal lip? The lips are 4.4mm that sit on top of the bin height. So a 3unit height bin is 21mm + 4.4mm lip.

There are four lip styles.

https://docs.ostat.com/assets/openscad/gridfinity-extended/gridfinity_basic_cup-lip_style_text.gif

Keep in mind. The lip is above the box height. Separators, labels, filled in bins will not go in to the lip space, As this would prevent stacking. You could achieve this if needed by increasing the bin height by 0.6 units. 3units with lip, should be close to the same height as 3.6 units with no lip.

avxmw commented 3 days ago

Thank you, I'll look into that. In case you're interested, Gridfinity Rebuilt (https://github.com/kennetek/gridfinity-rebuilt-openscad) does this as 1-click option which you might be interested to adopt.

ostat commented 3 days ago

I am happy to improve the UI where we can, however I am not sure what option you are referring to. Can you provide screenshots, with the option on and off describing what it does?

avxmw commented 3 days ago

Surely, hopefully these screenshots help.

Screenshot_20241004_113314

This shows where to find the option in 'gridfinity rebuilt'.

Screenshot_20241004_113925

This hopefully illustrates what I'm interested in.

GF-rebuilt allows to have the same total height of a box no matter if you want a stacking lip or not while GF-extended allows to cut off the lip, but loses height.

There are times where the stacking is not needed, but actively in the way of reaching a tool or cleaning, for example in a tool drawer. Also for me it looks nicer if the height is uniform and I can just mix and match self-made and boxes from others.

I'm relatively sure this could be done with your version, but it is as of now not intuitive/noob friendly.

ostat commented 2 days ago

Thanks for providing the extra info. Yes I think we can do something like that.