Raaco Assorter 55 - Boxes with Label Plates

Hello all,

to find a structured place for all the nuts and bolts, the need came up to make something handy for the basement workshop.
A good way to do this, is using assortment boxes. There are plenty to find here on thingiverse. Printing a whole assortment box and a plural thereof is cheap, but there are commercially available assorter systems that are pretty sexy and rugged: Raaco makes such nice assortment boxes, e.g. type Raaco 55.
They have grooves to lock the little containers into place pretty well when closing the box' lid. A few patents and "utility models" (german: Gebrauchsmuster) have been filed.

That's ok, recognized and and won't be interfered with, since the following action is no derivative, but is a complete new design with new tolerances and shapes.

However, for my intended use case, their systems lack 2 major features.

Color.
Labels.

Colors. They are important (for me at least) to grab the right assorter container with one distinct grasp. Let's say M3 screws and nuts are put into orange boxes, M4 into greens...etc.

Labels. They are good to differentiate between M3x14 and M3x16 - something you wouldn't be able to do just by looking at a pile of screws, right? Raaco's containers only have straight walls to attach labels. This is difficult to read at an angle.

Those two requirements can be adressed easily using additive manufacturing. Also, it's a nice practice to getting better at fusion360. Anyway, that's when I drew a few (since I'm a novice: not so) quick sketches in fusion360 to have two small containers available:

-- Refer to section "Overview" below - newly added box sizes are described there!!

I'm sure they can be fitted into other systems or drawers as well.

To fit the notches of the assortment container, the boxes are tapered apropriately - the taper angle is a tiny bit larger than the original container boxes. Some of the boxes add grooves to fit properly - no supports needed for printing though.

The area of the label plate is 32mm x 7mm for all boxes. The plate's base is lowered by 1mm from the top edge of the container, so you can place them in any direction, since the lid has a non-symmetrical lock grid - difficult to explain - you'll see it, when you see it ;)
You can simply use 6mm label print cartridges - my cheap labelprinter has a handy "frontpanel" mode, that outputs labels with 30-32mm width and centers the text accordingly.

There is no post-printing handling needed - just print, remove from heatbed, label it, use it.

If requested, I could add larger container boxes as well as perhaps oddly shaped boxes (L-shape maybe?).

Happy assorting,
Hannes

PS: Available boxes are listed in section "overview" below.
PPS: I have no clue, why the markdown doesn't show the list kind of entry correctly in the overview section - oh well, use your imagination, while on preview, it all looked fine, I promise!