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Small parametric greenhouse

Small greenhouse with four shelves, three of them removable, and a window on the roof that can be built using very basic tools and sized to fit into almost any space.

The full assembly is in draws/Main.FCStd. It also contains the spreadsheet used to define the sizes.

Greenhouse pic

Prerequisites

  • FreeCAD. Version 0.19 works, but other version could work as well.
  • FreeCAD's Assembly2+ addon. v0.4.53 at the moment of writing this document. It can be installed from inside FreeCAD using the Addon Manager.

Configuration

In order to tweak the size of the greenhouse, follow the below steps:

  1. Clone the project: git clone https://github.com/malcp/small-greenhouse.git
  2. Open the main file with FreeCAD: draws/Main.FCStd
  3. Open the parameters spreadsheet. It is called params. Parameters pic
  4. Set the desired sizes and save the document.
  5. Go back to draws/Main.FCStd and click to Update parts imported into the assembly and then Update imports recursively.
  6. Finally, update the parts lists.

Cut lists

https://www.opticutter.com/linear-cut-list-calculator and https://www.opticutter.com/cut-list-optimizer have been used to calculate the amount of wood and plastic boards required for building the greenhouse.

License

Shield: CC BY-SA 4.0

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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