How does the enclosed-box attach to the rack?

[seantbaker]

Sorry if this is obvious, but I'm struggling a bit to visualize how the enclosed-box rails attach to the rack.

From the gifts of the enclosed-box and the assembly guide, I'd guess that the enclosed-box rails should attach with screws to each MainRail; there are rows of screw holes along the "sides" of the MainRails that I think would allow for that.

But when I render my enclosed-box parts, the supports on the rails are only ~50mm apart or so, which doesn't seem nearly far enough apart to attach to the MainRails. My rack dimensions are configured to be:

["custom", [
      ["maxUnitWidth", 236],
      ["maxUnitDepth", 102],
      ["numRailScrews", 16]
    ]],

I'm guessing that because my maxUnitDepth is 102mm, the screw holes in the enclosed-box rails (only ~50mm apart) won't line up with the mounting holes in the MainRails.

Am I missing something here? Or maybe I've got something misconfigured, and the enclosed-box rails should have their screw holes further apart?

[jazwa]

I think what you have is correct. Yes, the side rails are to be mounted with the "side" holes of the main rail.

The maxUnitDepth here measures the distance between the "front" faces of the front and back main rails.

The distance between the front of the main rail, and the middle of the main rail's "side" hole is around 22mm (the distance here is only along the dimension representing "depth"). So 22mm + 22mm + 50 mm ~= 102 mm.

I'm a bit fuzzy on this though. If you end up printing it and it doesn't work out please let me know.

[mattnukem]

Did you set 'profileName = "micro";' to 'profileName = "custom"; in the rackFrame.scad file? If you don't change this, the entry.scad file will not grab the correct dimensions for your rack.