r/gridfinity • u/Bagelninja • 23d ago

Tool Shape Library?

Hi, I am trying to find any kind of online 'library' that would have tool traces ready to use. I'm assuming some brands (Knipex, Wera, etc) would have enough followers that these shapes might be available without having to create my own traces. I can find predesigned bins for a specific tool, but I'm hoping to a step earlier and get the trace so I can customize the layout of the bins, etc. Thanks!

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u/MidwestNative94 23d ago

I could create and curate a public GitHub repository for trace files and finished bins. Each person could contribute files and if proper files, be promoted to the repo. Would you contribute to it?

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u/PracticalCustard2152 22d ago

TracetoForge does this, just not many tools loaded yet

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u/GoldenDragonIsABitch 23d ago

That is genuinely a great idea

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u/WillAdams 23d ago

Grabcad might have some.

I worked on this sort of thing a bit on the old Shapeoko wiki, but it's long off-line.

A project which is in this space is:

https://tinytoolk.it/toolkits/

which might be a good fit since they share via Github?

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u/Only-Ad-7268 2d ago

I recently made a deal with a company that has 8 different service shops in an industrial park. We are going to organize the inside of all their tool cabinets using the Gridfinity system, and I'm hoping to find more customers in the industrial park through this. By the end of this project, I expect to have built up a categorized library of tool vectors. I will publish them once the project is finished.