Ikea Alex bins, again

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So I needed to organize all my DIY "Stuff" I looked at the numerous youtube channels with people building ones from scratch. I decided that picking up an Ikea Alex was the best solution for a couple reasons. The speed to get it going and the cost of materials. I looked at a number of Alex bins here on thingivrse and none fit the bill or executed properly on my machines. I have an Any cubic Chiron and anycubic 4max. I tried a couple in spiral mode and the 1x1 ones ran fine but the bigger ones did not. I probably could of tweaked my setting but decided to design my own. I this is a common ration to give the 1x1 thru 3x3 sized and you can mix and match to fit. One "feature" of the alex is that because the draw does not fully open you need to use a 3xX on the back row to be able to read the label. Since the ratio is the same for all prints a full bed for the Chiron is about an 18 hour run and the full bed for the 4 max is about 8 hours. I started running it supports to get a better quality label face but it just chewed through filament. It did not affect print time to much though. So continually tweaked the design so I could print without supports and get a reasonable quality label face. If you tighten up the parameters you quite a good quality box but I chose speed over quality. To fill it requires 70 square area times 5 so lots of boxes. That is why I chose speed over quality. With My parameters the quality is still good very useable, from my printers, anyway Added 2x3 box