Folding panel
Flat panel with a thinned fold line down the middle, so a rigid print can hinge along it — lids, flaps, fold-flat boxes.
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Dimensions
60 mm
40 mm
3 mm
0.6 mm
4 mm
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What you can change
- Length
- 20–200 mm · default 60 mm
- Width
- 15–150 mm · default 40 mm
- Thickness
- 1.5–8 mm · default 3 mm
- Material at the fold
- 0.3–2 mm · default 0.6 mm
- Fold-line width
- 2–15 mm · default 4 mm
This part is generated from a hand-written, print-tested OpenSCAD module — the same numbers always produce the same geometry. It is not an AI guess, and it does not cost a credit. Before a load-bearing or fit-critical print, check it against our design guide for wall thickness, overhangs and orientation.
Print notes for this part
- This is one thinned band across a flat plate, not a repeating slot pattern — a single fold line, not the segmented 'living hinge' look some other tools produce.
- The fold survives on `web` (material left under the groove), not on the groove's cut depth. Too thin and it tears on the first fold; too thick and it barely bends at all.
- Print flat, fold line running across the bed — a fold printed vertically bends across layer lines instead of along them and cracks almost immediately.
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