Hinge generator

A two-leaf hinge for boxes, cabinet doors and lids, with a hole up the knuckles for a pin: a nail, a bolt or a piece of filament. Set the height, knuckles, leaf width and the pin.

Hinge generator: the part as it comes

How to make yours

  1. Set the hinge's height, the number of knuckles and the leaf width.
  2. Set the pin hole for your pin: a nail, a bolt or 1.75 mm filament (make it 1.9).
  3. Set the gap between the knuckles and the screw holes.
  4. Download it as STL, 3MF or STEP, print both leaves, push the pin through.

What each slider does

Height 20 to 150 mm
How tall the hinge is along its pin.
Knuckles 3 to 9
How many knuckles there are, both leaves together.
Leaf width 12 to 60 mm
How wide each leaf is from the pin.
Leaf thickness 2 to 6 mm
How thick the leaves are.
Knuckle radius 3 to 8 mm
How fat the knuckles are.
Pin hole 1.8 to 6 mm
The hole up the knuckles for the pin.
Gap between knuckles 0.2 to 1 mm
The gap between one leaf's knuckles and the other's.
Screw hole 2.5 to 5 mm
The size of the screw holes in the leaves.

Also called

hinge, printable hinge, box hinge, door hinge, cabinet hinge, lid hinge, pin hinge, butt hinge, hinge generator, parametric hinge.

Ready