Square Grid

Square Grid is the orthogonal one — a plain checkerboard of square cells, the waffle you find on machined base plates, breadboards, camera cages and the underside of every well-made housing. It has no organic pretensions and no decorative flourish, which is exactly why it sits well on technical parts where a honeycomb or a weave would look like styling. The grid is real geometry generated from the face's own bounding box at regeneration time, so it re-tiles itself whenever the plate changes size. Each cell is emitted as a single frame — an outer square with an inner one cut out — so neighbouring cells share one wall instead of stacking two. No polygon union to compute, no doubled-up line anywhere, and the grooves stay a clean constant width whether you place nine cells or nine hundred. The Style switch then flips what the pattern is: walls keeps the grid lines themselves, Thickness wide, a waffle of ridges or grooves; holes relieves the solid inner square and Thickness becomes the land between cells, giving square pockets or a field of studs that reads as pixel art at small pitch and as a machined lightening pattern at large. Keep Thickness at roughly twice your nozzle width, around 0.8 mm on a 0.4 mm nozzle, so the corners where four lines meet do not turn into a blob. Depth of 1 to 2 mm is the useful range — a shallow engraved grid on a large flat top face is one of the cheapest ways to kill the glassy, wavy look of a big solid surface. Good for machined-look base plates and mounting panels, enclosure undersides and lids, grip surfaces, pixel-style fronts, lightening patterns on thick walls, and model flooring.