Tray Generator

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Create your own tray to help organize your life! Tons of uses for these trays, use it to remember where you put your wallet and keys, organize screws, or a place to put your tv remote. Use the parametric model maker with the provided code to make the exact tray you want. Choose the shape, adjust the size, add a pattern and more!

 

There are 15 settings that you can adjust and an advanced setting for those that want to create their own patterns by defining a custom heightmap.

 

Click the customize button above or Click Here to get started!

 

Need some containers? Check out these parametric container creators.

• Cylinder Containers
• Cube Containers

Printer Limitations

Depending on the printer, you can set the width, length, diameter and height to the size of the print bed. You probably want to leave a little bit of margin. I have put a size on those settings of 240mm.

• A1 Mini (Recommended max) - 170mm Diameter x 170mm Height.
• All others (Recommended max) - 240mm Diameter x 240mm Height.

Settings

The tool includes descriptions for each of the settings. If you are unsure of what a setting does, the best way to tell is to make a change to a setting and generate to see how the model changes.

 

Main Settings

• Shape - Choose from Round or Rectangle
• Tray_Width - The width of the tray for Rectangles
• Tray_Length - The length of the tray for Rectangles
• Tray_Height - The overall height of the tray
• Tray_Radius - The radius of Round trays or the radius to use for rounded corners of Rectangle trays. Set to 0 for no rounding.
• Tray_Scale - The scale of the tray top compared to the bottom.
• Wall_Thickness - The thickness of the tray walls.
• Bottom_Thickness - The thickness of the bottom of the tray
• Color_Picker - Preview the tray in various colors (no effect on the model or printing).

Texture Settings

• Pattern - The pattern to apply to the container and/or lid. There are 18 patterns to choose from and can be further customized. Select none for no pattern
• Pattern Depth - How much depth to apply to the pattern.
• Pattern Size X - Target size for the texture on the x-axis.
• Pattern Size Y - Target size for the texture on the y-axis.
• Add Pattern Border - Add a border region to some of the textures. Only applies to checkers, cones, hex_grid, and trunc_diamonds.
• Pattern Border - The amount of border to add to the pattern.

Advanced Pattern Creator

Create a heightmap that can be used to apply a custom pattern to the tray. I wasn't able to use the vector UI customizer since that is limited to 4 elements. The heightmap is defined by 10 rows and n columns. I recommend using 10 columns, but that is not required. Each row must have the same amount of columns.

• Custom Pattern - Set to true or false if you want to apply the defined heightmap to the tray.
• Row1-10 - Use comma separated numbers to define the pattern.
  • The value provided will be multiplied by the Pattern Depth setting to determine the extent of each individual height.
  • Decimals are valid.
  • Negative values will inset or can make holes in the model.
  • Positive values will extrude out from the model.

Basic Example