Thingiverse
Parametric Box with Snap-fit Lid (Terraforming Mars) by qubist
by Thingiverse
Last crawled date: 4 years, 11 months ago
A parametric box with cuboid interior. Cover slides and snaps closed.
I was looking for a box to exactly fit small cube-shaped game pieces for the game Terraforming Mars: Player Markers and Resource Cubes. I wasn't happy with the sliding lid on the boxes suggested in this collection, though I loved the idea of "self-assimilating boxes" that, "when you dump in a bunch of cubes while lightly shaking it, the cubes will magically line up with an almost borg-like consistency." Other boxes on Thingiverse either had weird interior shapes or hard-to-print lids. gryn's Small Organizer with Sliding Lid looked great but had a rounded inside and wasn't parametric. Inspired by that design, I made a parametric version with a cuboid interior cavity to fit cubes exactly.
This design is customizable using Fusion360. If there's enough interest I'll port it into OpenSCAD so it can work with the Customizer. See the design section for details.
I was looking for a box to exactly fit small cube-shaped game pieces for the game Terraforming Mars: Player Markers and Resource Cubes. I wasn't happy with the sliding lid on the boxes suggested in this collection, though I loved the idea of "self-assimilating boxes" that, "when you dump in a bunch of cubes while lightly shaking it, the cubes will magically line up with an almost borg-like consistency." Other boxes on Thingiverse either had weird interior shapes or hard-to-print lids. gryn's Small Organizer with Sliding Lid looked great but had a rounded inside and wasn't parametric. Inspired by that design, I made a parametric version with a cuboid interior cavity to fit cubes exactly.
This design is customizable using Fusion360. If there's enough interest I'll port it into OpenSCAD so it can work with the Customizer. See the design section for details.