Welcome back to my dank dark corner of the interwebs, with a new week comes new blog posts, so let’s go ahead and get started. Last week I introduced a problem I’ve been having, which is to stay I’m a broke ass college student and cannot afford a spice rack, so I figured, ‘why not?’ and decided to model my own spice rack using Fusion360 and 3D print it later on when I had the chance. I started the modeling by taking some measurements of some of my spices in my cupboard. I wanted to have three different levels, one for smaller spices, one for medium sized spices, and one for large spices (pictured below):
I figured the simplest way to do this is to make a stair-looking design in order to display the different levels:
I started by making a 350mm x 300mm x 60mm cube, and then started making cuts into the cube in order to place the spices in correct slots. The first row is 330mm x 60mm with a depth of 10mm, so that the spices won’t fall off the rack. The next tier up is 330mm x 80mm with a depth of 10mm again. The last tier is 330mm x 10mm with a depth of 20mm, as the larger spice was a lot taller compared to the other spices, and I wanted to keep it stable in the rack.
The design itself didn’t take all that long. Same with the modeling, as Fusion360 is pretty intuitive when it comes to cutting. Might of taken a bit longer if I was using something like freeCAD, but I intentionally designed this to be simple, so that there would be a lot less trouble when it came time to print, so even doing this in freeCAD wouldn’t of been that bad. Plus, I’m more of a function over form kind of guy, so while sure, I could of made it prettier, I preferred having the rack work really well with different sizes of spices, so a small compromise was made.
Honestly, making this was pretty fun. Required a little bit of brain power, but no headaches were involved thanks to Fusion. But until this thing is printed, I’ve got more spices to through in the cupboard.
Cheers, Taylor Lundy
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