Stackable 5oz cat food can organizer

Slim profile can rotation system designed to hold a lot of cat food cans. Stacks vertically, so you can fill up available space in a tight pantry or cabinet.

Can be printed without any additional hardware, and holds together reasonably well with friction, although glue is recommended.

A single layer holds 7-8 cans, depending on how they fall into the unit.

Printing

This isn't a terribly difficult part to print, but you'll want to make sure you print the right parts. There are two print profiles, one labeled bottom and one labeled stackable.

You will always need to start with the bottom of a stack, and so you should print the profile titled Bottom. You will not need to print the profile titled Stackable.

When printing units that will stack atop a bottom, you should not print the Bottom profile. You should print the profile titled Stackable

If you buy the hardware pins (5x20) from Bambu studio, or have some of your own on hand, you will not need to print the plate titled Pegs, which is present in each profile. Otherwise you will need one for each level of stacking

Assembly

Assembly isn't terribly difficult, but I recommend doing it in a specific order for simplicity.

Lay out all the parts and dry fit them together. It should be fairly easy to fit, there are nice tolerances wherever possible. Pay attention to the grid on the side walls, it should remain congruous. If you get hexagonal patterns that “break” around the seam, you're matching the wrong pieces together.

Once you have the pieces how they fit, I recommend assembling each half as a whole unit, before assembling them into the whole unit. Doing so the other way makes attaching the sidewalls, with their various peg and hole interfaces, difficult.

I put glue in each peg hole, and along each exterior mating plane, although you probably don't need anywhere near as much. The majority of the forces are going to be straight down, and very little will be horizontal, so keep that in mind when assembling things.

Stacking

When stacking, assuming you have two printed and assembled units, simply insert four of the pegs into the holes in one part of the stack, and place the second unit atop. Pay attention to ensure the drop-through hole at the bottom of a stacking unit lines up with the inlet at the top of its downstairs neighbor.

If your tolerances when assembling each level weren't tight enough, i.e. due to glue squeeze out or other similar gaps, you can just smear a big portion of glue on the top of one unit, and line up the bottom of the next one with it. The pass-through for the cans are generous, so being 100% exact isn't a requirement

Accessories

Sometimes you might notice the cans will roll out the bottom with so much force they pop up over the bottom lip, and fall out. To solve this issue, I've made a retaining arm, that you can print and install, which prevents them from flying out, but still allows easy access.