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@dlguess thanks for the idea. A closing latch is a good addition to a box with a lid. A snap-fit with its catch, a hook on one part and the catch on the other, is already being worked on by @marcus040473 together with screw bosses and ribs, and I'll see how that turns out. For a magnet closure you can already cut a pocket for a magnet into the lid and the box with a cylinder as a hole. Other kinds of latches stay here as a suggestion for now, I don't have plans for them yet. |
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I just got to thinking with all the lids going on I didn't want people to spill things out thinking just the lid would save them, that would be too much to bear them haing to chase down all that stuff that fell out and then try to remember what was in it to begin with. No wait, thats just me. :-) |
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Good news @dlguess: the snap-fit hook with its catch is in layerling 1.140.0 now, together with screw bosses and ribs (the enclosure parts): https://layerling.com/ – put the hook on the lid, the catch on the box, and it clicks shut. A latch built right into the lid tool is on my list too. |
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just like that, there it is. Thanks a ton, I was trying a bunch of different things that was taking way too long. Now I wont lose the lens cover at night and run over it with the mower the next day because I didn't see it in time. Onward to testing the latching and figuring out how to make a spiral gear for my old radial arm saw. Thinking will berequired for that one so I better drink an extra Boost and purple sugar free Monster. 
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@dlguess glad the hook and catch did it for the lens cover. The latch Marcus mentioned for the lid tool is in now as click bumps: small bumps on the lid's lip snap into dimples in the box's wall, so the lid clicks shut without a second part. It is merged and will be in the next version. Have fun with the helical gear. |
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@dlguess the click bumps for the lid are out now in layerling 1.141.0: small bumps on the lid's lip snap into dimples in the box's wall. |
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Dimples, didn’t think it f that.
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@dlguess thank you so much for your donation, that really helps and means a lot! And glad the dimples do the trick for your lids. |
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Fit like a glove Here's the prints will upload a fitment shot later. Left the cap off and it got a bit dusty so I better clean it up before the clean freaks run me down. Of course I didn't have any black filament to make for the hinge but had plenty of white. 
thanls again for the problem solving. |
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@dlguess that turned out really nice, thanks for showing it! The white pin hardly shows, you only see it at the end of the hinge. Looking forward to the fitment shot. |
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If you gonna have a usable box that closes, surely a clast or latch to keep them closed is needed. Bolt latch, spring latch,magnetic, locking, they'll need two parts to close it. All sorts of latches from the site below.
https://www.iqsdirectory.com/articles/latch.html
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