Generic Box Template for personal projects in OpenSCAD

prusaprinters

<p>When doing electronic projects there always is the search for a housing. There are plenty on the market but rarely fit the exact size and usually can not be considered cheap for some molded plastics.</p> <p>In addition much mechanical work needs to be done to implement all elements needed.</p> <p>That was the reason why I decided to create an OpenSCAD template to automatically create a basic empty box by defining a hand full of parameters.</p> <p>The housing consists of the main box and a fitting cover. I decided to handle both in separate OpenSCAD projects since I wanted to center the design since empty, it is symetrical in X- and Y-axis.</p> <h3>Print instructions</h3><p>Depending on the size of the box it is helpful to print both parts with a brim to avoid lifting corners of the large area.</p> <p>Most of my boxes so far I printed with PLA in 0.2mm layer thickness and a 0.4mm nozzle. For the hole diameters of the screw and screw head I added 0.2mm to make it fit through easily.</p>