> People spend a lot of time printing generic bins and baseplates that would be better spent just printing custom bins

3D printing with a modern printer is set and forget. You send the print file to the printer and you go get it a couple hours later.

Still faster than waiting for a package from Amazon and lower resource usage than driving to the store.

The customization comes everywhere from picking the bin you want to selecting the color filament to match your layout. Gridfinity isn’t my thing but people who are into it are usually customizing something, from the color to the baseplate.

Time has never really been an issue imo. For the average person your printer sits unused 99% of the time if it takes you half a day to print a baseplate and some bins, who cares. It’s still faster and cheaper than shipping.

Commercializing doesn't really make sense. So I need to get a small 1x1x3 container to store washers or whatever. With my 3D printer, I'll have that container in under an hour. Even if I bought it with the fastest shipping Amazon has available, assuming it was from a local Warehouse, the earliest I could get it would be half a day away. Having a local store that sells them would be marginally faster, but then I have to go to the store, pick it up and come home. The hour I spend waiting for the printer isn't an hour. I'm I'm completely blocked from doing anything else. It's just an hour in which my printers busy.

I think they're a good intro to 3D printing.

You wouldn't download "Hello world"?

You can use this custom gridfinity generator.

https://gridfinity.perplexinglabs.com/

Ironically printing custom pelican inserts with this right now

I don't understand the sibling posts that're arguing with you.

Consumer-grade containers would be cheaper than 3d printing if buying a set, it'd get folk up-and-running without fuss, and when they wanted to customize it they could do so with the help of any of their 3d printing fanatic buddies.

So yeah. I agree with @stephenpetryk. Storage solution companies should start marking their bins as Gridfinity-compatible (which is a protected use of copyright regardless of whether "Gridfinity" is copyrighted).

Especially for baseplates, since I have some drawers that are larger than my print area. It'd be awesome to just buy an injection molded 8x7 on Amazon or whatever for $5 instead of fiddling with glue and interlocking puzzle pieces.

I guess selling injection molded parts is forbidden under its licensing terms, which seems unfortunate.

Let people make some money while everyone is saving money.