How much can you overengineer cable storage solutions: YES!
Disclaimer: This is my first Fusion 360 design. I'm thankful for any constructive feedback :-D
This project was originally intended to organise my cable mess at home. Just furl your cables in a linear direction and put them into one of the storage bins.
But I guess you can store anything non-liquid (or non-sandy) in it.
You can use it horizontally and vertically (standing) since the back parts are closed with a lid.
The key aspect of this model is modularity. So each bin can be attached on any other (as long as the male/female direction aligns), hence the hex-design.
The model itself comes with fixed lengths of 21cm and 42cm (2 halfs, each 21cm) and a horizontal diameter of 70mm which exactly fits my own cupboard depth.
Due to the fact, that the female side of the front rim is sealed, different heigths (long and short versions) will align perfectly fine and vertical usage is no problem. BUT this forces you to assemble from bottom to top.
Here are the key aspects of the assembly:
I also attached the original parameterized f3d file. With it you can modify the “height” (which ressembles the depth of your cupboard) parameter to your needs. The “hex_side_length” parameter is a bit bugged, so better don't touch it atm.
But you can edit “start_piece_length” and “end_piece_length” to create exact fits.
When changing depth, there's a possibility that the skelettization doesn't come out as well as intended (e.g. 40cm looks a bit off). Just do a bit of experimentation here.
The model is designed in a way, so that any length/depth of a storage module will be attachable with any other module, independent what length it is. In other words: You can mix short an long versions or customized “height” versions without any problem.
The 3mf file should already contain the right settings, but here are the key aspects:
I'm open to constructive feedback and change requests. Let's discuss your ideas!
This thing is still under active development and I cannot guarantee that future versions will be backwards compatible (but I try and if so, I will provide “bridge versions”).
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This is the initial public versions. There were some (13 ;-) ) versions before, which I wasn't comfortable publishing. So this is the first okISH one. But to put it into context to mk.1: