Timothy J. Aveni

Looks like MakerWorld puts the model ID in the STL file; you can find it at the beginning of the file if you open it in a text editor.

Here's the model you're looking for.

It doesn't have to! I've written some info about magnets here.

Short bins, nonmoving bins, and bins with heavy things in them aren't very likely to need the extra grip. I don't use magnets in most of my baseplates, though I do use magnets in my bins to make sure they'll be compatible if I want to use them in magnetized baseplates later.

I've bought magnets on AliExpress and on Amazon, without much price difference in my experience.

Try my magnet rebase tool!

(edit: unless you meant the baseplate on the top, rather than the bases on the bottom?)

Thank you! I'm glad you've found it useful.

Yeah, that's a good call -- I got a bit carried away there. I think a good compromise is for it to spin until the first time you drag, at which point it turns off the rotation (until you reset the model). I've just pushed that update. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for linking this! I hadn't heard of this spec before. I totally agree that this would be a good use case for the rebase tool.

The immediate issue with those models (e.g. the 1x1x1 FN HN file from the site you linked) is that the automatic model rotation detection gets wigged out by the snap tabs. I've just added a toggle in the rebase tool to turn off this detection -- for now it's in the "More info" section of the page. If you turn off "Rotation detection for replacement base", the Snapfit base gets correctly detected and spliced into the other model.

Unfortunately, it looks like Snapfit isn't quite compatible enough with Gridfinity for this to work well out of the box. The Snapfit spec shaves off a 0.8mm-tall chamfered section from the bottom of the Gridfinity spec's bins (which is what caused the base detection code to fail), and this results in the whole base being shifted downwards relative to the Gridfinity base. If you can add that chamfered base back onto a Snapfit bin and still fit the resulting bin into a Snapfit grid, then that might work as a base within the rebase tool. Otherwise, it'd need a bit more tinkering in the code on my end to make it work with the height offset. I'll try printing a couple tests and see if it'd work.

The other issue, looking at the spec, is that Snapfit bins are expected to contain snaps only on the exterior of the bin (see the bottom of page 2 of the spec). The rebase tool just places the same base in every cell -- splicing different bases in different spots is out of scope for now -- so there would be snaps all throughout the base. My guess is that this would work okay but that bigger modules might have too much snapping force; it'd also be worth testing.

Let me know if you experiment and discover anything helpful here!