Additional Gridfinity Generator Features – Scoops, Dividers and Solid Bins

[DannyDesignStudio]

I really like the recently added Gridfinity Generator, and I was very happy to see that the text shelf option has now been added as well. It’s fantastic to see Layerling continuing to expand the generator with useful features like this.

I would love to see a few additional options added in the future:

Scoops – to make it easier to access and remove small parts from a bin.

Dividers – with configurable positions, allowing a single bin to be divided into multiple compartments.

Hollow or solid bins – currently, the generator creates hollow bins. An option to generate a completely solid bin would be extremely useful, as it would allow users to create their own custom cutouts for tools, parts, or other objects directly in the software.

Having these options built directly into the Gridfinity Generator, alongside the text shelf, would make it much more versatile. In particular, the solid-bin option would open up a lot of possibilities for creating fully customized Gridfinity inserts without having to start with a model created in external software.

I think these additions would make an already very useful Gridfinity Generator even more powerful and flexible!

[henmedia]

@DannyDesignStudio the finger scoops are out in 1.90.0: a Gridfinity bin of 2 height units or more can have one along any of its inner walls, several at once, with one radius for all. Dividers and a solid bin are not in layerling. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart.

[henmedia]

@DannyDesignStudio the solid bin is out in 1.91.0: a Gridfinity bin has a Floor height, and it is solid up to it, so you can group holes in the shapes of your tools into it. Without the lip it can be a solid block. Dividers are not in layerling. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart.

[DannyDesignStudio]

Thank youVerstuurd vanaf mijn iPhoneOp 18 okt 2026 om 22:11 heeft Stefan ***@***.***> het volgende geschreven: @DannyDesignStudio the solid bin is out in 1.91.0: a Gridfinity bin has a Floor height, and it is solid up to it, so you can group holes in the shapes of your tools into it. Without the lip it can be a solid block. Dividers are not in layerling. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.Triage notifications, keep track of coding agent tasks and review pull requests on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS and Android. Download it today! You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[BigToyBox]

I will gladly pay for the addition of the GOEWS wall system. It ties in with Gridfinity bins.

[henmedia]

@BigToyBox thank you for the suggestion and the picture. GOEWS is not in layerling, and I have not planned it. Which parts would you need most: the wall tiles, or the holders and bins that clip into them? That tells me what a first step would look like.

[BigToyBox]

The developed of teh GOEWS system has his own site with the generator for the plates and all the shelves. He is unable to get it hosted on the Perplexing Labs pages so he is hosting his own site. I wold imagine that he would be open to having it live here.

[mlugo-apx]

@henmedia, dividers are the one part of this request that layerling does not have yet, and I can build them on the shelves, scoops and raised floor already in. Here is the plan:

• In the bin's settings, a number of compartments across and a number deep (1 by default, so nothing changes for existing bins), and the divider thickness (1.2 mm by default). The dividers start evenly spaced, and each one can be moved to a position of its own, in mm, as long as every compartment stays at least 6 mm wide.
• The dividers stop under the stacking lip, 0.85 mm under the top of the wall, as the label shelves do, so a bin stacked on top still sits as it does now.
• You still choose which walls get a finger scoop, as now; each scoop is then repeated against every divider that runs the same way, facing the same way, so every compartment on that side has one.
• Each compartment is cut out of the bin on its own, with the same rounded corners as the bin's inside now and its own scoop, in the exact body too, so fillets, chamfers and STEP keep working. I tried this in the CAD kernel on the bin below and on a bin of 3 x 2 units with every layout from 1 to 6 compartments per side, with and without label shelves: one valid solid each time, with every scoop and shelf there.
• Each compartment can have a label of its own, or none: on any of its sides, along a wall or a divider, the full length of that side or a part of it at its left, middle or right, with the same rounded or chamfered corners as the label shelves now. A label never reaches so far that it closes off its compartment.
• The dividers are full height for now; a setting for lower ones can follow if anyone asks for it.

Here is that bin, built in the CAD kernel the way I would build it: 2 x 1 x 3 units, a finger scoop along the front wall, 3 x 2 compartments:

And cut through, front on the right: the scoop at the wall, the same scoop against the middle divider for the back row, and the rounded corners on the other side of each compartment:

And the same bin from above, back at the top, with a label in each compartment, each set on its own:

If that sounds right to you, I will start.

[henmedia]

@mlugo-apx Thanks for the plan and the pictures, that sounds right to me. Please go ahead with the dividers. One wish: if it gets big, a first pull request with the dividers and the scoops against them, and a second one with the labels per compartment, makes each part easier to look at.

[mlugo-apx]

@henmedia, the dividers are up for review in the two parts you suggested: #649 with the dividers and the finger scoops against them, and #650 with a label in each compartment, built on #649.

[henmedia]

@DannyDesignStudio with this the last part of your request is done: thanks to @mlugo-apx, a Gridfinity bin can be divided into compartments, with dividers you can move one by one, finger scoops against them and a label in each compartment. It is merged and comes with the next release; I will post here when it is out.

[DannyDesignStudio]

Thanks so much, @mlugo-apx and Stefan! I really appreciate you adding this feature. The movable dividers, finger scoops, and labels are exactly what I was hoping for!Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhoneOp 20 okt 2026 om 18:55 heeft Stefan ***@***.***> het volgende geschreven: @DannyDesignStudio with this the last part of your request is done: thanks to @mlugo-apx, a Gridfinity bin can be divided into compartments, with dividers you can move one by one, finger scoops against them and a label in each compartment. It is merged and comes with the next release; I will post here when it is out. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.Triage notifications, keep track of coding agent tasks and review pull requests on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS and Android. Download it today! You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[henmedia]

@DannyDesignStudio the compartments are out now in 1.95.0: https://github.com/henmedia/layerling/releases/tag/v1.95.0 – a reload of the page brings them. You find them under Compartments in the bin's settings. Thanks again to @mlugo-apx.