Parametric Box Design Breakdown + MakerWorld Setup

for Setup (2023) Lift the Lid

Pmdage

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Plan Your Print

About 38 g of filament

Print Profile 1h 2m 38 g PLA

What it takes

2 plates 1h 2m 38 g PLA

P1S, X1E, X1, H2D Pro, P2S, P1P, A1, X1 Carbon, A1 mini, H2D, H2C, X2D, A2L, H2S

• No supports required • Use 0.2mm layer height . The tolerances are designed specifically for this setting and may not work correctly at other layer heights. • Your slicer may warn you about gaps and cuts in the models. These are intentional breakaway points. Please ignore these warnings. • These breakaway points need to be freed before first use. Do this manually by pinching the cantilever arms with your thumbs or pressing them against a flat surface. Yes, it will crack, and it will be fine :) • Most PLA brands and colours are easy to free up, but some combinations may result in stiffer parts that require a bit more pressure to break loose. The design works very well, you may just need to work it a little harder depending on your filament.

Plate Details (2)

0.4 mm nozzle, all plates

Plate 1 · Paramatized Box

32m 22 g PLA · 22 g

Plate 2 · Paramatized Lid

30m 16 g PLA · 16 g

Designer's Description

Customizable Card Box Tutorial: The Model, The Design and the Setup

This is a parametric box with a snap-fit lid. You can customize height, width, and length to whatever you need.

The lid uses a cantilever beam snap-fit system. It has small flexible pieces built into it that bend slightly as you push the lid and snap back into place once it clears the edge, holding the lid shut. This ensures your lids will hold up a lot longer after repeated use (and it's quick to print!).

None of these parts require supports to print, regardless of how you print the lid (face up or face down).

Boost Me If you print any of these and they work well for you, a boost on MakerWorld is a great way to show it. Boosts earn me points I can put toward filament, materials, and parts, which matters more than it sounds. Every design here went through multiple prints before I was happy with it. Either way, happy printing.

Tutorials

How to model a snap-fit lid using the cantilever-beam method

This video shows how to do it in Fusion 360, but you can apply the principle to any modeling software. The voice track is a bit rough as english is not my first language but it does the job ;)

How to make a parameterized model on MakerWorld using Fusion 360

On MakerWorld, it's possible to create models that can be customized by users. This is how you can make that happen using Fusion 360.

Check out the rest of my work here:

https://makerworld.com/en/@user_2443559174/upload

If you like what you see, there are trhee ways you can help me make more designs.

An easy way is to boost me through Makerworld.

I also sell most of my models on Etsy .

Or maybe help (aka Design Juice).

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