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Weighted Gridfinity Baseplates (CadQuery Customizable)

CadQuery Customizable reimplementation of Zack Freedman's weighted Gridfinity baseplates
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updated February 1, 2024

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NOTE: I RECOMMEND YOU USE MY IMPROVED SUPPORT-LESS WEIGHTED BASEPLATES AVAILABLE HERE INSTEAD:

https://www.printables.com/model/186703-support-less-weighted-gridfinity-baseplates-cadque

This is a from-the-ground-up reimplementation of Zack Freedman's weighted Gridfinity baseplates using CadQuery instead of Fusion 360. See this video for further information about the project:

This version is customizable in CadQuery so you can generate custom sized weighted gridfinity baseplates, including ridiculously large ones like 10x10 baseplates etc. I have included a random selection of grid sizes from 1x1  up. These should be fully compatible with the official boxes/grids. You can also fully customize the X and Y unit sizes AND the presence of weight slots AND/OR magnet/bolt holes! (in the filenames: nowt = no weight slots, and nohole = no magnet/bolt holes in the baseplates).

I re-implemented this because it seems like a perfect fit for an open source CAD software like CadQuery. With that in mind I have also released the source code python script that was used to generate the STLs. I would love for others to help me create new organizer bins and/or re-implement organizer bins in open source CAD software like CadQuery or OpenSCAD.

I used CadQuery/CQ-Editor to design this with a recent version checked out from github on April 13th, 2022. Unfortunately CadHub.xyz does not have a recent enough version of CadQuery to render this properly (n.b. the issue is with lack of a combine argument in the older version of the eachpoint method).

CQ-Editor is available on github at CadQuery/CQ-editor, but the latest stable release will NOT run the included cadquery source code, so please instead use a static build from here: https://github.com/jdegenstein/jmwright-CQ-Editor/releases/

If you are interested also check out my related model for basic gridfinity baseplates here: https://www.printables.com/model/170956-basic-gridfinity-baseplates-cadquery-customizable

And my related model for undivided gridfinity boxes here:
https://www.printables.com/model/174715-basic-undivided-gridfinity-boxes-cadquery-customiz

If you are interested also check out my collection of all the gridfinity-related designs I have released: https://www.printables.com/social/107343-jdegs/collections/154274

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