McMASTER catalog box

We received our McMaster-Carr Catalog at work a few weeks back. It is addressed to our group, and we take turns who gets the current year.

Since there is only one true catalog, I figured it would be fun to hand out some little replicas and went to see if McMaster had a 3d model of the catalog, since they do with almost everything else. 

In this case, they did not :-(, so I scanned it in and recreated the catalog.

I also make a lot of little boxes, and since it is roughly box shaped, I extended the box treatment to the model. The box model is scaled to 50% and is a fun size to ahve floating around. I did end up deleting and enlarging some text to get it to print in a semi-legible fashion with a 0.4 mm extruder, but a 0.2 would probably be more fun.

The model uses 8 5x2mm magnets, which I glue in after printing with a drop of CA glue. The gel type is my preferred for this application. They may need a little tap to seat them, though I slightly increased the magnet hole diameter in the uploaded model from the one shown.

I have not yet tried it, but if you want to put your catalog into the box, it appears that a ~320% scaling is required

For fun, I also uploaded the full size 3mf that has not been converted into a box.