How to 3D Print Custom Tool Organizers for ANYTHING!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video I'm showing you how I created many fully custom 3D printed tool organizers for my measuring tools and sockets based on the Gridfinity system. We're going over a bunch of different methods to approach the 3D modeling including using reference images and 3D scanning to maximize the space and efficiency of your tool drawers.
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
02:26 Modeling Gridfinity block for a simple Tool
06:34 Modeling more complex shapes with reference image
09:42 3D Scanning objects / Sponsored Segment
22:12 Examples of various tool organizers
15:36 Making organizers for Socket Sets - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
One of the good reasons for doing this organizing grid is that it shows that you have missing tools at the end of a job.
Highly reccomended for surgeons.
@@chrislambe400 surgeons have left scissors & other instruments inside of patients before after a 20 hour shift on consecutive days just over worked & over tired
That really is rocket surgery.
I have a solution for your long bits, that I 3D printed 7 years ago. I made the slots horizontal and deep enough so the bits sit just below the surface so they can't slide out. At one end of the slot, make the slot over a short length (10 mm long or so) about 8 mm deeper than the rest of the slot. To take the bit out push the end of the bit down into the deeper end and the other end will pop up, making it easy to grab. It avoids finger slots which need extra space and which I find inelegant 😊. Very informative video! Especially the different methods of designing the slots for the tools. Thank you so much for posting this.
That is an elegant solution.
for modeling complex 2.5d objects I love just throwing it on a flatbed scanner
Damn I didn't even think of that one! Great idea
Try gluing a felt sheet (dark green for that retro feel!) down into the bottom of the drawers, then redo your tetris of the grids. Everything will be quieter, and have a better feel!
SUPER useful video, thanks!! I hadn’t known about the Gridfinity generator for F360, and seeing you going through the steps to make this cutouts made it very inviting for a novice F360 user like me to give it a try.
Amazing that I’m finally going to have organized tool drawers after all these years!
3D printing is perfect for tool organizing. I also use those little felt/rubber pads (for chairs, cupboard doors etc.) for certain items that need extra protection. It gives some shock protection and tightens up extra clearance when you don't feel like reprinting.
I had never thought about taking a picture and importing it to draw the geometry from. It changes my perspective to construct. Thank you so much! 😊
I’ve been wanting to do this for months now, too. Cool video and thanks for the tips!
Your videos are packed with value!
Nice video. I am doing similar stuff for my workshop. One of the main advantages besides organisation with the Gridfinity is as you say the ability to take a set of items with you to a working table. I have a combination of drawers, cleat walls cabinets and sticking to Gridfinity gives me a ton of ways to constantly optimise.
Awesome video. Thank you so much for going into how you designed the trays. So many YTers just skip design and focus on the end result. Looks good and gave me hope on doing it myself.
Great job. Thank you for sharing your workflows.
Well that is just incredibly satisfying, great video and project!
That was very satisfying and inspiring to watch.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Phil, very interesting video. I have used a few different commercial systems and none of them are as good as this: most waste space at an astonishing level and pay more attention to aesthetics than function, so I yeet them out and find more practical and useable solutions. Yours look like they will last well too, and I'm pleased to see you minimising your plastic waste. Thanks again.
Very satisfying!
Real life Resident Evil 4 inventory management! (fantastic job BTW).
Awesome work Phil. Definitely borrowing your great ideas!
That's beautiful! My OCD thanks you.
Really clever on the large tools grid.
Phil, you are right about Lista cabinets being the best you can get. I managed to get 4 of the narrower ones last year, 3rd hand, originally they had been supplied to the McLaren F1 team. Really not cheap even 3rd hand, my son will inherit them. The main problem with mine are that a lot of the drawers are 50mm, which meams that for many items, they dont have enough height internally. I have 2 new 100mm drawers being delivered tomorrow, which will replace 2 of the 50mm drawers in 2 cabinets. Spares etc are really easy to get hold of and are not a horrific cost. Having just taken delivery of a Qidi Q1 printer I will be putting it too work making some of these drawer organisers. Many thanks for posting this, at this time.
Holy cow, just googled them and, well, it's impressive how much the cabinets cost.
Yeah it depends a bit on what you keep in them. For me the 50mm version works great but some stuff I have to keep in other places as it's too thick. I think what the large flat drawers excel at is stuff like drills and endmills, I can't imagine a better system to organize and store those. As you said, I'm pretty certain this cabinet will still be in use somewhere after I'm gone. It's hard to overstate how well they're made
@@rotors_taker_0h Yeah, quality is never cheap, even second hand. They hold their price really well. Honestly though if you spot one or two for sale, go for it if you can. You won't regret it at all.
I felt that the ad segment in this video was very well integrated. It did not feel like an ad and yet it was practical and informative.
I did the same with my sockets and GF, but the tolerances were a challenge. Then I pivoted and used square bosses and just put the socket down on top. That worked so much better than holes, for me.
Yeah it definitely can be tricky to figure out tolerances as round holes tend to have shrinkage in 3d prints. I don't know if you knew, but in many slicers there's a parameter that lets you adjust hole tolerance in a print without changing the actual model. Using test prints this can be very helpful to figure out how much extra space you need and then save a print profile for that application
extremely useful video. thank you!
wow mate you did a great job.
yess, exactly what i started doing, but those designs are even more approachable👌🏻 I should continue with mine..
for baseplates, I want to strongly recommend Gridfinity Refined, and Gridfinity Refined Parametric Spacer, on Printables.
Gridfinity Refined has a simple and a complicated baseplate, and the simple is better, imo. it has little dovetail connectors to tie the baseplates together. the spacer takes up the extra space, so that your baseplates can't slide around in the drawer.
between the two of them, you don't have to worry about your baseplates shifting around at all, even if you always close the drawer kinda hard
The beauty of doing this is discovering that you need more tools to fill the draw up again!! 😂 Thanks for the into to this system, I'm going to have to look into this as I've been trying to organise some tools and just can't get a good fit. It's also a good opportunity to dust off my 3D printer as I haven't had a chance to use it in quite a while 👍👍👍👍👍
This is amazing.
15:11 Tetris theme played in my head while watching 😂
Excellent and inspiring video mate 👍🏻 thank you.
I have a custom L-shaped box in my tool drawers too, glad I'm not alone!
To get a tight fit when working with a canvas/photo, draw the lines of the sketch directly on the edges of the object. Then use offset lines to make a slightly larger path. For 3d objects, use Offset Face.
Awesome 👍
It's so satisfying... 😋
nice work!
I find that I always make some measuring error so my solution has been to print out a drawing diagram at 1:1 from fusion on paper to check everything before I send it to the 3D printer. This has saved me many hours for printing time and filament.
I found it can also help to print just one layer of the object for this purpose to check the fit. Costs almost no filament and is relatively quick
@@PhilVandelay Yes, I usually do test prints as well, but the time of the inkjet printer and the cost of the paper is much less than plastic. Thanks for your content.
I don't know much about all this 3D printing stuff, but you did a very nice job putting all this together.. save those cases and repurpose them for something else...thx for sharing...
to measure the scale of the caliper picture... why didnt you use the caliper markings directly? hahahah Great video! :D (I know, i know, it was to show the technique more than solving for the specific case)
Well done. The biggest problem is that no matter how many organizers you have, there are always too few of them.🙂
well, I wish I'd known about the gridfinity plugin two weeks ago, before I started fighting with-and ultimately redoing from scratch-a filled-in box file from printables
21:24 - For the socket trays, consider adding a magnetic strip along the bottom (or perhaps in each individual hole) to help retain the sockets when moving the full set to the workbench.
Throwing away blow moulded cases after organizing their contents is one of my favorite things
i wonder what they are made of, if they could be recycled into 3d print filament :P
@@ge2719 I started to notice that (at least for the Lidl Parkside tools) they are made from recycled HDPE. Since I already recycle bottle caps made from HDPE, it was easy to reuse it. It would technically work as a 3D printing filament, but it is a nightmare to print with (I already tried).
@@creativusme sounds like its used for pressure moulds for a reason then....
what do you do to reuse them melt them into slabs?
@@ge2719 Well, there are different techniques. I could explain it via text, but it would be kind of long and hard to understand (I'm not a native English speaker; I'm Italian). I started by watching the "Brothers Make" channel ( www.youtube.com/@BrothersMake ) ( th-cam.com/video/OwmgYUJXCyM/w-d-xo.html ) and found my own way to do it.
In simple words, yes, I melt them into slabs or press moulds I built myself.
You can cut the molded inside layer out and 3D print your own internals, or use Kaizen foam, or just use them as like a storage case. They're not very strong with the inside removed, but you can epoxy support strips in
Nice, I wish I knew about before building and designing my tool cabinet. Definitely think I prefer the sockets that drop in rather than printing little nipples where the push on. Saying that I think I saved a lot of time and material.
Hey for the longer bits showed in 17:54 you can create a hole large enough to insert a small magnet using a soldering iron and that way they are going to stay in place, or 3d printing that again with the holes for the magnets
Interesting. I was organizing my tools in my green Lista today. Some good tips. Now I need a reliable 3d printer.
thanks for the “water level” tip. i’ll be using that!! 🎉😂
If you have both metric and inch-based tools, then either separate them into different drawers, or give the organisers different colours, if you only have a few. A few tools for ¼"/20 tpi can be practical to mount camera's, even if your shop is otherwise fully sane.
Nice job, really enjoyed watching it and very nice design, i want my 3d printer xD greetings from colombia my friend.
Looks great although I think if there are any solid areas I'd be tempted to hollow them out to save material and also serve as spaces to stash additional small items.
Thanks
Amazing job. I too scored a nice older Lista about 1/2 your size. It’s a mess right now. I have a Bambu Labs XC1 sitting idle, maybe I should get to work. Thanks for the great idea.
You could add a layer of a bright filament under all your cutouts so it is very apparent what is missing at a glance.
13:44 I will call the Gridfinity Police! What do you think this is? Tetris?
Just wait till I start making round ones!
@@PhilVandelay Joking aside, great project, Phil as usual! ✌️
Cool video! clearance, not tolerance...very different things
You could use a flat bed scanner for dimensionally accurate and distortion- free image, if you happen to have one
I LOVE your Fusion UI config. Do you have a video or other place you talk about how to get Fusion to look like your's?
Excellent video!! Quick question - after you change the size of the holes that you made using the pattern function, how do you then get them to be the same distance apart?
If you ever make new boxes, consider making little cutouts at the sides for your fingers so you can take the parts out more easily
The objects sit in there pretty loose so it didn't seem necessary. They all protrude far enough so you can easily grab them
Wow i didn't know they had an addon to fusion. Makes things way easier
You should also be able to use solid sweep with the 3d scans. Have you tried ?
I need to do this for my kitchen😂
Wonder if craftsman sockets would fit in your Etsy items? Very cool set up
120kg load on each drawer, I could sit on that. This reminds me of the oven door which you could stand on, impressive build quality.
Yeah, I can actually sit on the front edge of a fully extended drawer and they don't even flinch. I was gonna show this in the video but forgot to film it somehow. Their slides are very well construted
Great job! May I ask you, which 3D printer you are using?
Some nice tips! Thanks for sharing
Nice video,
In the minute 1:38 that underdesk drawer, did you made it or you buy it? can you give information on this please.
I made it, there's a video about this desk on my channel which also includes the making of the drawer
Thanks for the tip on Lista! watching the reviews on them, they seem to be a good quality to price ratio. I have been looking for a tool cabinets worth investing in for a few years now, and blowing money on a snapon or cabinets in that category just didn't seem logical to me.
Yeah they are definitely bomb-proof and last forever. Here in Germany they're practically the industrial standard for tool storage
lista is the last brand from switzerland that have survided. The Quality is superb. The only brand that was better is Vidmar.
Any small spaces left after putting all your boxes in, you can fill up with a smaller "filler" box print so they don't move around
They can't move around though, that's what the grid on the bottom is for ;)
@@PhilVandelay I knew the way I explained it wouldn't make sense. I was actually referring to the bottom grid pieces. Adding in a spacer to fill out to the back or sides of the drawer.
@@Dongaz ah I see. Yeah I actually did that for my other drawer, with this one so far it seems like the contents are so heavy the grids don't really move since they're all attached via the containers into one giant grid
Phil, I suggest you change your channel name to "Vandelay industries", what a missed opportunity.. :)
all and all, how much filament did it takes you to organise all of thise ?
Actually not that much, these prints are not structural so you can use very little infill and don't need many wall/top/bottom layers and while some of them are big in the XY direction, they're all pretty flat so it's not that many layers. I think all of this was printed with less than three 1kg spools.
What was the name of your tool cabinet? Lystine? I was trying to search for it. Great video, I'm about to perform this same feat for my own woodshop and office.
Lista
A foil of rubber with magnets here and there to keep everything in place thanks to friction/magnetic force would have taken less time and used up less plastic...
Around here used Listas go for $100 per drawer!
What about using Shadow foam? It would have been much faster and keeps the tools from rattling around. There is a TH-cam guy that shows tons of tool loadouts cut with shadow foam.
Hello, Phil, great video! I would like to get some of those cabinets myself. What is the name of the company that makes them? Do you know if they can be purchased online?
The company is called Lista, yeah you can order them online. Not sure if they ship worldwide as it's a German company but it's worth having a look
No holes for fingers? Fingers grip is enough?
Yeah there's no friction to overcome, it's very easy to just grab stuff
großartiges Video lass dir nicht vom letzten Kommentar die Laune verderben. =)
ist es richtig dass du nur PLA verwendet hast und wie sind deine Erfahrungen wie ölfest die organizer sind?
Ja recyceltes PLA sogar, das ist noch günstiger und für solche Projekte völlig ausreichend (Filament ist von Sunlu, gibt's bei eBay). Ich hab mal einen Trichter für einen Öltopf (Schneidöl) aus PLA gedruckt und der funktioniert seit Jahren problemlos (ist ständig mit Öl voll) also da scheint es kein Problem zu geben.
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did you say, tolerance of .02mm?
Why do you need that grid app? Why not just a solid block? I don't understand what it's used for.
It keeps the organizers aligned to the grid and prevents them from sliding around. You could get away without using if the space in the drawer is filled 100% but when there's gaps, the grid helps to keep everything in place.
Tell me you are rich without telling me you are rich: Phil "so this is my basic chest of drawers"
I'm not rich at all, having this stuff is simply a result of collecting it over 10+ years
@@PhilVandelay Sorry Phil, I meant no offence. Just drooling over your tooling. Great video too
👍😎👍
So the resident evil storage system skill is useful in real life
my snap-on tool box cost 12k empty. being an auto tech sucks, were always poor!
I see some people are angry that you’re selling some of this work. A lot more people will watch this, think it’s great but not tell you, so just adding this comment to voice some support.
id be very interested with so much plastic molten, how much was throwaway?
Not much, I had 2 or 3 misprints but I always keep those around because PLA can be recycled almost 100%. You can crush up and melt failed prints and turn them into new filament, and I have the vague plan of building such a filament extruder someday.
Now throw some magnets in underneath
16:02 I think you meant 5 & 6 not 6 & 7
Damn, you're right. Counting is hard!
measure thrice, print onced
Phil just letting you know, I don't think you can legally sell items based off the gridfinity system - Zack's original license makes it illegal as far as I'm aware.
Nope, Zack changed the license and explicitly allows it to be used commercially, as stated by himself in his own video:
th-cam.com/video/ofI2OCq_QqA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_ZlrceL0vzeC1LJe&t=321
Для лучшего извлечения инструментов надо было сделать выемки для пальцев. Не продумано.
There are a lot of video's about printing tool organizers. 3d printers are getting frustrated being used for that after so many years of printing evolution.
Hey at least it's not printing pointless toys and figurines
It’s much faster to use a laser and cut out foam inserts.
I'm not sure, unless you count the printing time as "work" which I don't since you really just have to wait for a few hours while you can do something else. And with laser cutting you still need to draw the shapes in CAD as well. But sure, there's other ways to approach tool storage, this is just one option.
@@PhilVandelay I use Fusion 360 for my 3D print designs but typically I use LightBurn, Adobe Illustrator, or Inkscape for laser printed designs because they are 2D. So for cutting foam with my xtool S1 I measure the height and width of each tool, draw several boxes in a vector program and export an SVG file to cut the foam. Cut time is 5 minutes for most of the inserts that I created. However, I really like your approach as well. 👍🏽
That is the silly way to do.
Use a lego base. So if you buy a new part new size you do not have to reprint the whole :)
You reorganize it in 2 min.
FIRST!
congrats magnum pee
@@southerndime333 First time in my life! 🤩 M30
Why does everyone’s always forget to include all the words in the phrase.
Loser*.
The phrase is “FIRST loser”.
You should show your mom . It would be a shame, if nobody on the entire face of the planet, thought it was cool that you are first.
@@jamesbizs ah yes, a wild loser appeared
OCD?
little bit
Is there any way we could have avoided doing this out of plastic?
Probably, I guess you could carve these out of wood if you have a CNC router. Not sure it's actually more eco-friendly though, PLA is almost 100% recyclable. I keep all my misprints, prototypes etc. in a box so I can one day build a filament extruder and turn them into new filament.
I downvoted this video. I did this for two reasons. You made the socket things, you made them for your own use. People post stuff to printables all the time for free, that they have made, you decided to make it a paid for system, even though you based it on someone else's gridfinity system which is open source and free - you used someone else's free system, to try and turn a profit. Secondly, you used this video to promote an item that you got for free that was valued at £1,500....so you already got the items, got the advert, and then tried to sell your grid finity based designs. Incredible, absolutely incredible.
Absolutely agreed!
This needs more upvotes and the remixer needs to publish the files for free, as under the license any derivatives have to be published using the same license.
It's a block from me for this guy, this is just scummy practice.
@@ionitateo1932 100% agreed
Making content costs time and money. This channel literally wouldn't exist without sponsors and selling stuff on Etsy. It's great that some people are in a position where they're able to provide content for free as a hobby, but I'm not. I have to pay rent like everyone else. If you think what I do here is worthless and I shouldn't get any compensation for it - fine, you're entitled to your opinion and free to watch other channels. Or you could try creating some videos of your own to see how much time and work is involved - maybe you'll change your opinion. I find it puzzling that you somehow think people getting paid for their work is a shameful thing. Do you work for free?
As for the Gridfinity part, Zack explicitly allows it to be used commercially, as stated in his own video: th-cam.com/video/ofI2OCq_QqA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_ZlrceL0vzeC1LJe&t=321
I'm also not selling Gridfinity. I'm selling the work that I put into models which are based on it. Gridfinity is still FREE, nobody is keeping you from building your own models, I just gave you a free 20 minute tutorial explaining how to do it and you're complaining about not getting more free stuff.
Nobody is forcing you to buy my stuff, just like nobody is forcing you to watch sponsored videos. And nobody owes you free content.
@@PhilVandelay Were the long bits you said you downloaded the STLs for - were they free examples? You begin to see the problem and why people think this behaviour is scummy. You got downvoted, I won't be watching any more of your videos and will ask TH-cam to block your content. I am not interested in supporting a channel like yours.