Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer

Clicked one of the examples...

> I have a 400mm x 500mm x 80mm drawer for screws and bolts.

(thinking for a while)

"Please provide drawer dimensions to continue."

This seems harder than just using a regular gridfinity generator and controlling with sliders rather than free text input and prayers.

Nice idea but I'm missing the specialty bins that actually make Gridfinity useful: bins for storing the AA/AAA batteries vertically, for SD cards and USB keys, for a caliper, tape measure,...

With plain bins, you don't get the "this tool can only be stored there" lemma that changes how you think when you have a lot of tools. If a tool has only one place to go: 1) either it's there or it's used on a work surface, 2) it goes back there and not in a possibly-related dump (does this special double-sided tape go with all the tapes or with the leatherworking supplies?)

For other Gridfinity content:

  - Generate a specific bin for your tool: https://www.tooltrace.ai/
  - Generic bin generator: https://gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/pr/gridfinity-rebuilt/0/0
  - Hub for links: https://gridfinity.xyz/

Okay, so this is just a text prompt that could have been actual UI elements where I select dimensions, fed to an LLM in the poorest way possible so it doesn't even work properly, where you ask it to kinda sorta solve a binpacking problem.

Imma pass.

Gridfinity is a strange one as on the whole it would make more sense for much of it to be mass produced injection moulding. Everyone is printing the same 42mm grid and buckets!

But hobby gonna hobby.

I think the status page while waiting for generation is showing messages from across other users too? I saw a mishmash of different progresses, "Please provide dimensions" and then it returned to showing other random inputs

This keeps deciding that I am done describing my drawer before I can mention a single thing that should be stored in the drawer. I basically get paste the dimension and it decides that I hit Generate already.

Now I'm going to try typing my command in a different window and then pasting it in all at once. That worked, but now it isn't at all obvious how my items are supposed to go in the boxes generated, nor how they are to fit into the space.

I'd like to have one where you lay out all your tools, take a picture, and it makes you a drawer insert that has a custom slot for each tool.

Please create it for wood as in "this is the wood you need to obtain or cut as in lwh. Then, how many screws do you need where" and so on.

3D printing this is too expensive in even a little bigger quantity. Maybe a combination of 3D print and wood, but 3D print is way too powerful to be wasted on even surfaces that could better be created with wood.

App needs a bit of review, rather buggy, reloads and presents layouts while I’m typing, if I type in something thats not dimensions the error presents and then rotates through seemingly many different responses to other’s prompts? Vibe coding is a tonne of fun but its worth putting it through the wringer before making public :)

I'm curious how grindfinity's/geniecrate's calculation is made for the fitting problem.

I'm very interested in seeing some combination of LLM / genetic algorithms to generate optimized furniture placement in rooms, or even designing entire houses from a set of rules/first principles etc.

Isn't the whole point of gridfinity bespoke containers?

A generic bulk container isn't very useful if you're trying to fit something sensitive like calipers in your drawer

Broken on mobile, cant scroll the results and the top is cut off.

This seems to be a common phenomenom with all those vibe coded apps. Bit weird since most traffic is mobile nowadays.

Reminds me of pallet stacking software. Give it 200 boxes all different sizes and the robot stacks up the puzzle. I could watch it all day.

Use gridfinity instead. It actually works and isn't AI slop