DRAWERFORGE · BINS

Count the cells of the baseplate you already have and these fill the millimetres in — 4 × 6 cells is a 168 × 252 mm drawer. Measure the real drawer where you can: the leftover millimetres are what tell you whether the last bin fits.

Usable height is drawer floor to the lowest thing above. Baseplate height is 4.25 mm unless your joint forced a solid floor — the baseplate tool passes the real figure across.

Draws the real drawer in the preview — floor and four walls, translucent so the bins still show through. The sides stand at the usable height you gave above, because that is the number the fit check already uses and a second side measurement could only disagree with it. The front panel is often taller or lower than the sides, so it gets its own figure; leave it at 0 to match them. The walls sit at the drawer's inside dimensions, so the gap between them and the baseplate is the space the grid cannot reach. It is a view only — nothing you download changes.

Only affects the material estimate, not the geometry. Thin parts — walls, floor, dividers, lip — print solid whatever you set; the feet are thick enough to be infilled, and they dominate. Assumes 2 perimeters and 4 solid top/bottom layers.

Bins print upright, so a bin's own height has to clear your Z. A tall drawer will happily let you ask for a bin taller than the printer can make.

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Dividers are counts of walls, not compartments — 1 divider makes 2 compartments.

A bin marked printed stays in the drawer and in the layout, and drops out of the print plates, the STL downloads and the filament estimate. It is what you want when you are filling a drawer a few prints at a time.

Builds rails on the walls instead of a divider across the bin, and exports the plate as its own part. A drawer gets re-divided far more often than it gets reprinted. The plate drops in from above and lifts straight out. Clearance is per side. 0.25 slides; tighten it to 0.15 if your dividers rattle, loosen it if they bind.

A scoop fills the front inside corner with a curve so you can sweep contents out — try 8 mm. The label shelf juts in from the top of the back wall with a 45° underside, so it prints without support; 12 mm suits a printed label. Both need their wall to exist.

A flat plate with a skirt that seats inside the bin’s lip. Prints upside down, so the plate is the first layer and there are no feet to print — a fraction of the filament a bin costs. Untick a side to leave its skirt off, for an edge you want to reach past.

This bin has a lowered wall, so it has no stacking lip for a lid to grip. Set every wall to full height to give it one.

Front is the front of the drawer, matching the map. Corner posts stay full height and a lowered wall ramps up to meet them, so the side walls keep their ends — a wall that stopped square against the post snapped off there. The ramp is 8.5 mm at each end whatever the bin’s footprint, so a wider bin keeps the same corner and gains a longer flat opening. Lowering any wall removes the stacking lip — nothing can sit on it.

Splits it into the fewest pieces that each fit, covering the same cells. They sit side by side on the baseplate, so nothing is lost but the wall between them — and if you want one continuous compartment, set the facing walls of the new bins to Open.

For when you want a single bin and not a drawer of them. Opens the same uncluttered page, with no grid to place it on and no drawer measurements to fill in — just the bin, its preview and its download. You can drop it into the drawer at the end, or never.

Hides the drawer, the layers and the map, and gives this one bin the whole page. Everything here still works and the bin stays exactly where it is — this only changes what you are shown.

Click cells of this bin to cut them out, and click a gap to put one back — that is how you make an L, a U or a notch. Alt-click does the same thing without turning the mode on. Press Escape or the button again when you are done.

Combines the selected bins into a single bin of whatever shape they make together — the other way to build an L or a U. It keeps the first bin's settings, and loses the stacking lip, dividers, scoop and label, which all need a rectangle.