HSW (honeycomb) adapters for Qube 500

Updates:

• 2023-10-16: Added pre-generated adapters for most commonly used offsets (small mounts)
• 2023-10-22: Added adapters for big honeycomb mounts

Introduction

These adapters let you mount individual HSW accessories directly to Qube 500, without having to use a baseplate. If you are unfamiliar, Honeycomb Storage Wall (HSW) is an organization system, for which people have already made thousands of mounts, for everything from specific tools to kitchen equipment.

Related work

There are other models which let you attach a baseplate to a Qube panel, but that means you have to commit an entire panel to HSW. Only four attachment points for the whole baseplate also may be less robust when attaching/removing accessories, compared to each accessory having its own attachment point.

Print settings

No supports. Orientation as in the files.

Accessories with a single mount

If the HSW model you want to use has a single mount, just use the supplied Base adapter, and you're done.

Accessories with multiple mounts

• First, print your accessory
• For the left-most or bottom-most mount, print the Base adapter (shown in red below).
• For rest of the mounts, measure the approximate distance from the base mount, and print the closest matching offset adapters from the STLs (shown in blue).
• For example:
  • For the purple steam deck mount, I will use Vertical 71mm
  • For the green shelf I will use a Horizontal 41mm, and Horizontal 82mm

• The offset adapter has a small circle inside, indicating which way should point up

Background

Why do I need different kinds of adapters?

HSW and Qube 500 have different pitches, which means you can't just use multiple copies of the base adapter (they won't align properly). So I've created a parametric version which automatically applies the correct offset between the male and female parts so they always follow their respective pitches.

So I calculate the required offset between the given HSW mount and the closest Qube mounting hole:

hsw_pos_x = round(approx_dist/hsw_pitch_x) * hsw_pitch_x
qube_pos_x = round(hsw_pos_x/qube_pitch) * qube_pitch
offset_x = hsw_pos_x - qube_pos_x

If you need to generate custom offset adapters

If the offset between your mounts is not in the pre-uploaded files, you can generate custom adapters. It's pretty simple:

• Print the HSW accessory you want to mount.
• Measure the center distance between the mounts. You only need an approximate distance - the software will automatically align to the nearest valid distance.
• Go to this link if your model has small mounts, or this link if you have big mounts. Enter the measurement in the top-left section, and check “Vertical?” only if the mounts are arranged vertically.

• Right click on each model in the parts list shown in the bottom-left corner and export. Select STL as format.