Squeeze Tube Organizer, customizable

The squeeze tubes of herbs were flopping around in my fridge door, annoying me when I wanted something from that shelf of the fridge door.

This is a truly simple honeycomb holder to keep them in their place, upright.

The tubeHolder.scad source code is for the free, open-source, cross-platform OpenSCAD, using the free, open-source, cross-platform BOSL2 library.

Once I've defined a few constants, the code is just:

linear_extrude(height){ grid_copies(spacing=2*(rad+thick/2), n=3, stagger=true){ zrot(180/6){ stroke(closed=true, width=thick, hexagon(ir=rad+thick/2)); } }}

Without the unnecessary { } it would be a single line of code.

I measured my squeeze tubes with a calipers and the one with the largest diameter measured 40mm. I gave 1mm of clearance all the way around.

Since I'm using BOSL2, I did not mark this as a Thingiverse Customizer, but if you are running OpenSCAD locally, it should be customizable for you just fine.

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Prusa

Printer:

i3 MK3

Rafts:

No

Supports:

No

Resolution:

0.3mm. Standard 0.4mm nozzle

Infill:

n/a

Notes:

Gray PLA filament.

I used a brim, but on my printer I still had some warping at the outer corners after the first layers. For a print like this, it doesn't matter: I just flipped the result upside down so it sits flush on the fridge door shelf.