Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer

https://geniecrate.com/

by woktalk • 4 months ago

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antsar• 4 months ago

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."

amelius• 4 months ago

Same.

(Firefox, Linux)

Neywiny3• 4 months ago

Same

(Firefox, Android (which is Linux))

simondanerd• 4 months ago

Wait long enough and it popped up for me. (Android, also basically Linux but using Vivaldi)

Took about 10 secs.

ggsp• 4 months ago

Why these wouldn’t be cached is beyond me. Cool idea though!

1e1a• 4 months ago

It looks like that's just a generic error message. For me, this websocket message is received when the error appears:

    {"error":true,"body":"Your credit balance is too low to access the Anthropic API. Please go to Plans & Billing to upgrade or purchase credits.","done":false,"id":"XXXXXXXX","type":"cf_agent_use_chat_response"}

Artoooooor• 4 months ago

The error message should point that it's the server, not the user problem.

IceDane• 4 months ago

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.

dwroberts• 4 months ago

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

Gigachad• 4 months ago

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

nolroz• 4 months ago

Oh cool do you have a good one you can share?

Neywiny3• 4 months ago

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

jLaForest• 4 months ago

This is clearly using gridfinity. You might want to actually check out the link before commenting next time

Neywiny3• 4 months ago

I tried and it didn't even load me a result, like others in the comments. If this is an AI wrapper around gridfinity, that's even worse

fortran77• 4 months ago

Yes. Just use gridfinity. This adds no value

mememememememo2• 4 months ago

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.

mijoharas2• 4 months ago

Shhhh! Some of us need to convince our significant others that a 3d printer is actually useful, and not just a toy/waste of space.

contingencies2• 4 months ago

On this tangent I can recommend 3D printing jewellery and RC toys as well as repairing broken stuff around the house. Kids like custom fidget spinners.

LtWorf• 4 months ago

Hey i 3d printed the toilet paper holder that had been broken since I was born more or less

atonse• 4 months ago

Honestly the fact that the kids are so into it after I got it has made my wife come around.

Her main argument was, is this just going to sit around gathering dust?

and I’m about to go on a gridfinity spree in the next few weeks so she’s going to enjoy the OCD organizing.

Aurornis• 4 months ago

Everyone I know who uses the system likes to print different little specialized containers for their different things.

I don’t know anyone who just prints a lot of identical 42mm buckets.

lostdog• 4 months ago

Is there something mass-produced that's flexible and consistent like gridfinity? As a non 3d printer owner, I've been looking for something I can just buy that would work.

jimnotgym2• 4 months ago

Yes these

https://share.temu.com/m885rYiehMB

Also on Amazon. Search tool box organiser or drawer organiser

fouc• 4 months ago

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.

conception• 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui

theendisney• 4 months ago

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.

jdboyd• 4 months ago

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.

Haeuserschlucht• 4 months ago

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.

randunel• 4 months ago

I find the sum of all 3d printing tools and consumables required to build something useful (i.e. drawer inserts) a lot cheaper than the sum of all wood tools and consumables.

whackernews• 4 months ago

Also I thought plastic was bad. We seem to just be producing new pointless bits of plastic crap here?

Animats• 4 months ago

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.

skowalak• 4 months ago

Like this? https://www.tooltrace.ai/

nfgrep• 4 months ago

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 :)

cranium• 4 months ago

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/

thi2• 4 months ago

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.

tekno45• 4 months ago

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

Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer

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