Gridfinity CHEP Thing
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[Chuck Hellebuyck](https://www.thingiverse.com/elproducts/designs) is a genius! Putting a clickie button on a circuit board with an LED to level your print-bed? Brilliant! He has provided so much information to noobs (and dyed-in-the-wool professionals alike) on a budget, the man deserves an award! I have used some of his profiles to get me started with nozzle sizes I never used before, to get an easy baseline without having to reinvent the wheel. Kudos to the guy we all know as [CHEP](https://www.youtube.com/@FilamentFriday) One thing though really GRINDS. MY. GEARS. It torques my beehive! The so-called [CHEP Cube](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3189377)... In 2013, user larryj uploaded a [20mm calibration cube](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:214260). In 2018, Chuck claimed to have created a calibration cube in Tinkercad, slapping his logo on it and calling it the CHEP Cube. It is possible that CHEP came up with his design entirely independently from Larry, but really how likely is that? A cube with letters, anyone can make that. Right! But the exact same size, the exact same font? After you have spent years trawling through Thingiverse (pretty much the only such repository back then)? I am not buying it. And then to flog this thing on your YouTube channel at every opportunity you get? It feels icky. It's like me slapping my name on a #3DBenchy and insisting it's called the Jay-boat. 'Nice Benchy, Jay.' 'Excuse me, this is a Jay-Boat. See how it doesn't say 3DBenchy on the bottom, no this is substantially different!' So in honor of dubious practices without giving proper credit, or at least recognising the influence of other designers, I present the first annual award for blatant plagiarism in 3D Printing to the otherwise exemplary human being that is Mister Hellebuyck. This completely useless print (takes too long and uses too much filament) is not at all based on Zack Freedman's Gridfinity system. The fact that is has the exact same measurements is purely coincidental. The logo is not a copy of that on the CHEP Cube, it's just random letters I have hand-drawn in Fusion 360 Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is entirely a figment of your distorted perception and has no basis in reality unless your reality includes copious amounts of LSD (which for legal reasons we do not endorse consuming).
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