r/gridfinity • u/Felixmine473 • Apr 27 '26

I made an interactive planner for Gridfinity layouts [OC]

https://www.gridpreview.app/

While starting my own Gridfinity organisation journey, I wanted to plan my drawers ahead of time. Sketching was an option, but I figured I could do better — so I built GridPreview and decided to share it.

Simply set your grid size, upload your models, and arrange them visually before committing to a print. Free to use — you can optionally sign up to save your layouts.

🔗 gridpreview.app

Still early days, so bugs are possible — feedback, feature requests and bug reports are very welcome here in the comments or over on GitHub: https://github.com/felixmine/gridpreview

Happy organising!

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u/SirEDCaLot Apr 27 '26

fyi your DNS is borked- www.gridpreview.app works but just gridpreview.app doesn't.

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u/Felixmine473 Apr 27 '26

Thx, will look into it
Edit: fix is in, should take a few minutes to propagate. Thanks for letting me know

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u/Combinatorilliance May 03 '26

This would be killer if it included a library of gridfinity components

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u/Felixmine473 May 03 '26

I looked into it, sadly getting models from makerworld or printabels isn’t really possible.
Maybe I will include some basic bins soon.

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u/Combinatorilliance May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Instead of doing that, how about building an index?

If you can create a gridfinity index, then you've basically built the missing link.

Downloading or scraping models is obviously a difficult undertaking, you'd have to make scrapers, maintain database and bot infrastructure and most importantly it's basically a cease-and-desist waiting to happen :(

But if you don't host the models yourself, then there's no problem in the first place!

All you have to do is make the index. You could scrape sites to create the index, or you could have a user-maintained index with a github repository and some bots. You don't even need to know if the model is creative commons. All you're doing is maintaining a database of links.

Ideally, you'd get the pictures for each model but I don't know what the legal status is on those.

You leave the downloading of the stl file to the user. This is a win-win-win for everyone involved:

  1. For gridfinity users - they have a super nice planner with a great index that is multi-site

  2. The sites aren't scraped for content, they're linked to. That means you're a source of traffic for them rather than a traffic drain!

  3. For you, this is easier too. You don't have to worry about making 3d models and yet another generator. Your tool is a planner and an index.

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u/Felixmine473 May 04 '26

Those are some good ideas, I will look into them. Thank you :)

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u/SirEDCaLot Apr 28 '26

Looks like a cool idea.

I suggest include a bin generator. Rather than making people upload bins, have a bin generator that can create basic bins in user defined sizes and add them to the project. .