As I get my shop re-organized, one thing I’m planning to do is trade out my disorganized wire shelves for cabinets and a cleat wall. I’ve been traveling recently, so decided to hammer out something that I think will be useful for the cleat wall: an automatic SVG generator!
Inspired by systems like Gridfinity, this lets you enter in the size of cabinet you want, plus information about your stock / cutter / wall, and generates an SVG for import into EstlCAM or wherever you need.
I have some features I’d like to add, including:
support for metric
custom cabinet types (like a simple tray rather than a cabinet, a drill holder, etc.
support for drawers (either more SVGs or STLs to 3D print)
If I really go crazy, I’ll look into things like custom layouts (i.e. more optimal nesting, generating cut panels according to sheet sizes) or generating a render for the finished shelf. In the meantime, I thought I’d share it here in case someone else finds it useful. If you end up using it to build something, please do share pictures!!
Try it at stash.zach.network. There’s a link on there to report issues or request features you think might be useful.
Yes inches, let me update it to make that clearer.
edit: done. should be live in a minute or two.
edit-edit: I removed all the units to better support metric. Now you should just use the same units throughout the options and you can use either metric or imperial units.
Sure, go ahead. Though, as I said, some are heavily inspired by the boxes page.
What I always try to do is to make sure I have 3-5mm on top of the slots so they don’t necessarily need glue. In your version the bottom would fall out.
You can see my V1 in the File Holder (open) and V2 the Chisel holder (closes, but besides that basically the same model).
What about making a test fit part too. One that would use less material, but you could check tolerances and get your cam right before cutting a whole cabinet.
