Design Concept

This model is inspired by military storage crates, designed to look both sturdy and functional. The color accents are chosen to add visual interest and differentiation.

Summary

Small Rugged Box

This box is designed to be 100% out of the 3d printer and is to be assembeld with only a handfull of tools. The box itselft fits on an normal standard sized 3d printer and can be printed in a couple of hours. Given the Material i used (PETG) it was quiet flexible but did not break easily. The walls are pretty thin to save plastic. I tried to make the box still quiet sturdy and I will probably continue to improve it and add mor variations.

Parts needed

One Body

One Lid

two lid holder

Optional:

two stack holder

Walls

Assembly

The Box is assembled easily with some pliers and some 1.75mm Filament.

All the hinges are made with Filament that is forced inside with pressure.

Depending on your 3d printer it might fit better or worse. I tried to make up for both variants.

Some glue to prevent the filament from coming out again cant hurt but in the current versions i didnt need it.

I might add some longer or shorter latches to compensate for the different print settings.

The first closings and openings might be rough!

Statistics

As most things in the world everything has a limit of torture it can withstand. This Box is nothing out of the ordinary in terms of that. I was still suprised at how much weight it can hold but this will depend with material and printer and I am eager to get some resuslts from some other people

The future

I have plans for wall inserts in the next weeks.

A low profile version

A bigger Box

What you guys can think of

Assembly video of me failing to asseble my own creation

Updates

2024-11-07

Added a lower version of the body compatible with the same lid

2024-09-27

Added a simple wall stl which should fit as planned for splitting the box up to three times

Extras

I have tried to make an assembly guide, but i am not satisified i will still upload it.

Small Rugged Box (100% Printed)

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 8% infill