Frenchfinity French Cleat Caliper holder

Parameters

This model does not have any parameters since its made to hold a specific tool.

Source/Inspiration

• caliper holder, french cleat/screwable by Antimaterie | Download free STL model | Printables.com

What is Frenchfinity?

Frenchfinity tries to fix the issue that there is no standard for french cleat holders, while you have to re-build holders again and again. The project tries to be as convenient as possible to provide an easy “slide in” system to avoid waste while providing you the maximum flexibility possible.Frenchfinity is the missing french cleat sub system.

Watch our initial video to get an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbA6Cf03Jpg

Also check our website: https://frenchfinity.xyz/

Print recommendations

We printed all our test parts using a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon and the preset 0.28mm Extra Draft. For the most parts, you need a little support for the groove. Depending on the part you are printing, it may be possible to print it rotated by 90° to avoid any support.

The most parts were printed with 10% infill, and sometimes increased to 90% for more stability. In Bambu Studio, this can be accomplished by cutting the model in two parts (make sure you enable “cut to parts”). After that, you can increase the infill for the part representing the slider-

It’s also recommended to use regular support instead of tree support. Especially when you print higher holders, the thin tree may fail. You of course can avoid this using one or two layers of raft. Make sure you enable support only on build plate, since otherwise you will generate useless support for the font insets and screw hole.

We also had better experience with removing the support material when used PLA and “Support for PLA” over “Support for PLA/PETG“.

Fusion360 configuration

All frenchfinity projects are based on ParametricText by Thomas Axelsson. You can edit the parameters by opening the parameters' configuration. All parameters that are favorites are also used in the file name and printed on the model itself.

The model also contains a sketch that contains a text object with an automatically generated file name. We recommend you to use this file name to be able to easily identify files later.

Some models also contain an angle as parameter. For some reason, this angle is not updated automatically or cannot be a parameter (at least in the way I used Fusion360). Please make sure to update the angle parameter in the parameter configurationand the timeline manually by modifying the “move” action.

Adding labels

We can recommend attaching labels on your tools and your holder to make sure every tool always finds back its way to the holder that has been made for it. So you may want to label (for example) your hammers with increasing numbers and the prefix HA1, HA2, and so on.

Required tools

To use the plastic-only version, you don’t need any tools. If you want to create your own custom-made wooden french cleat wall anchors, you need a t-slot cutter m5 like this one: https://amzn.to/3xxiimd

To attach the printed wall anchor to your french cleat wall, we recommend 2,0*20mm screws like those: https://amzn.to/3zphU9Q.

To sand the tongue, we used some sanding sponges like these: https://amzn.to/3zuvetv

You may also want to attach labels, we used the Brother PT-P300BT label printer: https://amzn.to/4erY64n. We also used regular (original) tesa stripes to double secure the printed labels since they have not the best adhesion: https://amzn.to/3WyWaAr

Goodbye filament leftovers

Frenchfinity is perfect for any filament leftovers. Just print a little holder for one of your tools and if your spool is even too empty for that, use the last filament to fix and lock the printed wall anchors against your printed holders by pressing a small part of the filament in the 1.70mm between the tongue and groove.

License

Frenchfinity is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

You are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Support Bastelsaal

You like our work and especially our work? Feel free to support us:

• Buy us a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bastelsaal
• Paypal donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/bastelsaal
• Watch and comment our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbA6Cf03Jpg

Used the model without the cleat