Type the three measurements of whatever you need to pack.
Every case PLASTON publishes is scored against it as you type, smallest
first, and the one that takes it with the least room to spare is flagged.
Step by step
- Measure what goes in. Length, width and height over the
widest points of the part. The Units switch in the header takes the
whole page, typed figures included, between millimetres and inches.
- Type the three figures. There is no search button: the
results re-rank on every keystroke. Each case is tried in all six
orientations, so a part that will not sit square may still go in turned on
its base or laid down.
- Say how much room to leave. Padding per side
reserves 5 to 20 mm all round for foam or an insert, and comes off every
interior dimension before the fit is scored.
- Read the results. The flagged card is the smallest case
that takes the part: it says which way round it has to go, what is left
over on each axis, and how much of the interior gets filled. The drawing
beside it is to scale in first angle - front elevation above, plan below,
the part in place and the padding as a dashed inset.
- Look at the near misses. Folded away under the results:
the cases that fall short on a single axis by 25 mm or less, with the exact
shortfall, so a small trim or a thinner insert is an obvious option.
- Plan a stack. Add to stack on a card or a table row
builds a column and reports its height, footprint, interior volume and empty
weight, drawn as two elevations. Every case above the first adds its own
height less 10 mm, because the lid rim stands proud and sits in the recess
underneath the case above it.
- Send it to someone. Copy link to this search puts
the measurements, the padding, the units and the stack in the URL. Opening
that link brings the whole search back.
Worth knowing
- The whole range is at the foot of the page, drawn to scale and sortable by
any column. The heights there are the stacking pitch, and each case links
PLASTON's flyer and its CAD.
- Interior sizes are measured off the CAD rather than taken from the flyer,
and it is the measured interior the fit is scored against.
- The fit is box against box. Ribs, screw domes and the dome in the lid are
not collision tested yet, so a result with a couple of millimetres to spare
is indicative rather than a promise.
