Easiest way to define a water beaker in Opentrons?

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What’s the easiest/best way to define a simple water beaker on the deck with some volume or height of liquid inside?

I see the OT-1 has documentation on adding containers. Is there something equivalent for the OT-2? Using the Custom Labware Creator seems overkill for a simple water beaker.

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I always just use the custom labware creator, it’s not very difficult to use and with a caliper you can fill in all the boxes easily

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Thanks! Do you know of a programmatic way to load custom labware?

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I just do this

waste_trough = protocol.load_labware(“agilent_1_reservoir_300000ul”, 10, label=“waste_trough”)

And I load the .json from the custom labware creator on the machine. Otherwise to simulate make sure the .json is in the folder you’re running the .py from

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The labware creator is the best way to create custom labware. At some point, there was a CLI labware creator tool on Opentrons’ GitHub that would allow you to create labware that couldn’t be made in labware create (uniform wells, tubes/wells of different volumes, etc.). However, I am not able to find it anymore.

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