Ele-Box – Parametric Electronics Enclosure

Ele-Box

From bare-bones to fully loaded. You choose every feature — and the size.

v0.2 · 2026-06-14 — see what's new in the changelog.

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Ele-Box is a fully parametric enclosure for 3D-printable electronics and project builds: a box plus a matching lid, with an optional gasket and backplate. Set your inside dimensions, toggle the features your build actually needs — screw posts, ports, vents, standoffs, glands, snaps, seals — and you get a print-ready box laid out flat on the bed. The default is 160 × 100 × 40 mm inside, with 3 mm walls, floor and lid and a 5 mm corner radius. Change any of it. Made for Bambu Lab.

What you can generate

Choose what to print:

• All — base + lid (and backplate, if enabled), laid out side by side
• Base only — the box body
• Lid only — the lid
• Gasket only — a flat sealing ring to print in TPU
• Backplate only — an internal plate drilled to match your standoffs

And how it comes out:

• Layout: Print (flat on the bed, lid pre-flipped) or Assembled (stacked as it fits together, for a sanity check).
• Split: halve an oversized model — Length A/B or Width A/B — for a small bed. It's a plain straight cut, so glue or dowel the seam yourself.
• Quality: Low, Normal, Fine or Very fine curve smoothness — drop it while experimenting, crank it for the final.

Box body

• Inside length / width 20–300 mm, inside height 10–180 mm.
• Wall, floor and lid thickness 1.2–8 mm each.
• Outer corner radius 0–30 mm (0 = sharp corners).
• Fit clearance between base and lid, plus a plug-in lip with tunable depth and wall thickness.

Lid mounting

Six ways to close it — Screws, Press fit, Snap lock, Removable snap lock, Glue, or a Plain plate — with the lid shaped as a Cap (sits over the rim) or Inset (drops flush into the opening).

• Screws — base posts sized for M2, M2.5, M3, M4, M5, M6, 4-40, 6-32, 8-32 or a custom size. Head recess socket/pan, flat countersunk, or none. Set post diameter, inset and the rib that blends each post into the wall.
• Snap lock latches all four sides; Removable snap lock latches only the length sides so the lid pops back open. Tune catch height, reach, width and position below the rim.
• Press fit — grip ribs on none / length / width / four sides. Net grip is rib depth minus fit clearance (about 0.25 mm per side by default): deepen for tighter, raise clearance for looser.
• Glue / Plain plate for the simplest builds.

Openings

• Round and rectangle holes in the lid top or any side wall, as parametric rows with rounded corners — set count, size, offset, spacing and axis for connectors, switches and displays.
• Vent grids — slots or round holes with independent row and column spacing: up to 12 rows × 20 columns on the lid, up to 10 rows × 20 columns on a side wall.
• Panel connectors — up to 4 cutouts from named presets that set the exact opening: USB-A, USB-C, Micro-USB, Mini-USB, RJ45 Ethernet, HDMI-A, DC barrel jack, Audio 3.5 mm, SMA antenna, DB9 serial. Each picks its wall, height and offset, with an oversize option to clear a whole plug body when a port sits back from the wall.
• Cable glands — PG7 / PG9 / PG11 / PG13.5 / M12 / M16 / M20 or custom, 1–6 per wall, with an optional inner boss so the gland nut has material to bite into.

Board fit and ports that line up

This is where Ele-Box earns its keep. Two things have to be right: the hole sits where the port is, and the port actually reaches the wall.

• Standoffs — a primary quad set to your board's hole pattern, an optional second quad, and up to 4 individually placed posts. Out-of-bounds standoffs are trimmed to the interior automatically, so nothing prints floating.
• Board anchor — define the board outline and park its port edge a small gap from a chosen wall, then reference your connectors to the board so the cutouts auto-align to the real ports.
• Preview ghost — a translucent board outline you can switch on to line things up (preview only, never printed).
• Backplate — a separate internal plate drilled to match every enabled standoff group, with its own wall gap, thickness and corner rounding.

Onboard hardware

• Battery holder — snap-in cradles that self-size to AAA, AA, 14500, 18650, C or D cells, 1–4 across. End clips grip just past center; a 9V block gets an open-top well for the snap clip and leads.
• Display window — a rounded screen cutout with an optional inner ledge so an OLED/LCD drops in from inside and rests on the step.
• LED indicators — 3 mm / 5 mm / custom holes in a row, 1–8 across, with an optional underside collar to align and grip each LED.

Mounting and finishing

• Base mounting — side tabs, corner ears, a full flange, or floor holes; on the length, width or all sides; one centered hole or two near the corners. Fixings can be round, slot or keyhole, in compact / normal / large sizes.
• Waterproof gasket — shrinks the lip and cuts a sealing channel with a retaining ridge. Print the flat gasket ring in TPU (PLA/PETG stays too rigid to seal), or use it as a cutting template for rubber or foam.
• Rubber feet — shallow recesses in the four bottom corners for stick-on feet.
• Lid text — an embossed or engraved label with your own string, font, size, position and rotation.

Make it your size

Every dimension and every feature is a setting. Punch in your inside length, width and height, pick a lid style, toggle the features you need, and you get a print-ready box — anywhere from a 20 mm trinket case up to a 300 mm enclosure. No remodeling, no guesswork.

Printing

• No supports. The base prints open-side up and the lid prints top-down (pre-flipped for you in the print layout). Standoffs, battery cradles, LED collars and the display ledge all grow up from a surface, so there's nothing to bridge.
• The one overhang is the optional inner boss on round ports — it's off by default and short enough to bridge, but add a chamfer if your printer struggles with it.
• Size the box for what goes in it: cradles and ports land where you ask without enlarging the box, so check that your inside dimensions clear the cell length and connector height.

From a USB breakout to an 18650 power bank, it's one parametric box. Pick the parts, set the size, print.

Free for everybody, for personal, non-commercial use — print all you like, just don't sell it. Not monetizable, not for resale. Closed-source design; the source files are not distributed.