Gridfinity Maker

How Gridfinity Maker works

1. 1

   Choose a template

   Three cards, three parts: bin, baseplate, socket organizer. The card text tells you what each one is for.

2. 2

   Tune the template

   Only the fields that template owns appear — cells and height for a bin, cell counts for a plate, size rows for an organizer.

3. 3

   Check the live preview

   Spin the model, read the millimeter panel, and step back to the cards any time with the back button.

4. 4

   Download the STL

   Watertight-checked, binary, millimeters — generated locally like every tool on this site.

The template step is the whole idea: most beginner confusion comes from seeing bin fields and plate fields at once. Gridfinity Maker separates them by part type, so the socket organizer never shows wall thickness and the baseplate never shows height in U — each screen asks only sensible questions.

The three Gridfinity Maker templates

In prose: the bin template builds the boxes that hold things, with walls you can thicken for hand tools and dividers that split the cavity into square compartments. The baseplate template builds the 5 mm landing surface, sized purely in cells because its footprint is simply cells × 42 mm. The socket organizer template is where Gridfinity Maker rounds the set out — literally — with cylindrical pockets for sockets and other round stock. Whichever card you pick, Gridfinity Maker keeps the part on the shared grid so the three templates mix freely on one plate.

Tuning the bin template in Gridfinity Maker

Picking the bin card opens the full bin control set: X and Y cells from 1 to 12, height from 2U to 12U, wall thickness from 0.8 to 4 mm with 1.2 mm as the default, and floor thickness from 0.6 to 10 mm starting at 0.8 mm. That is the deepest the Gridfinity Maker tour ever gets — and it is exactly as deep as the bin needs.

• Wall thickness 0.8 to 4 mm, default 1.2 — the Gridfinity Maker starting point, thin enough to save filament and thick enough for hand tools.
• Floor thickness 0.6 to 10 mm, default 0.8 — raise it when the bin will carry metal parts.
• Dividers up to 10 per axis — the cavity rebuilds so compartments stay square and printable.
• Lip and magnets are single toggles: the 3.8 mm stacking lip nests identical bins, and Ø6.5 × 2.4 mm pockets take common 6 × 2 mm magnets.

Gridfinity Maker geometry stays standard

Whatever the template, Gridfinity Maker output respects the community gridfinity standard: 42 mm pitch, 0.5 mm subtracted once from the whole outline, 1U = 7 mm with the 4.75 mm foot inside, baseplates a flat cells × 42. A bin tuned here drops into a plate from any other tool on this site — and into most community plates elsewhere. That interchange is the point of the system, and Gridfinity Maker never trades it away for convenience.

Gridfinity Maker or Gridfinity Gen?

They are the two short paths on this site, aimed at different moods. Gridfinity Gen shows four fields and nothing else — type, X, Y, U — for the moment the decision is already made. Gridfinity Maker asks one question first — what are we building? — and then reveals only the relevant controls. If you know the exact part, use the gen screen; if you know the job but not the part, the Gridfinity Maker cards will point you at it.

The back button returns to the template cards at any time and keeps your parameters — cheap experimentation is the whole idea. Print small, test the fit against your plates, and let the next run correct anything the first one guessed wrong. Gridfinity Maker makes iteration cost about a gram of filament.

First project ideas from the Gridfinity Maker cards

• Bin at 2 × 2 cells and 3U — the calibration print of the Gridfinity Maker system; if it clicks into a plate, everything else will.
• A 4 × 3 baseplate — 168 × 126 mm, one piece on a 220 mm bed, no splitting needed.
• A socket organizer with 12, 16 and 20 mm rows — round pockets for the tools that never sit still.

Each idea is one card and a handful of numbers. The point of Gridfinity Maker is that the distance from idea to STL should stay small, and that every result still speaks fluent 42 mm grid when it lands on a plate.