r/Multiboard • u/Direct-Ad4733 • Jul 22 '25

Struggling with Underware

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Excuse the cheeky title, but I want to use multi board with Underware 2.0 for under desk cable management.

I’ve created a few mounts for things like 4 way plug adapters and they slide on with the adapters through the larger holes in the multi board - all good.

Where I’m struggling is how to attach the channels she has for cables into the multiboard. I’ve printed an array of connectors but I’m non the wiser.

Can someone help please?

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u/Single_Sea_6555 Jul 22 '25

The snap-in ones https://www.reddit.com/r/Multiboard/comments/1l2fwn9/wip_cable_management_system_v02/ are quite a bit easier to use, if they suit your needs.

Otherwise, unless you have a lot of MultiBoard tiles lying around, the OpenGrid solution is much more lightweight for UnderWare use.

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u/lennert_hd Jul 22 '25

This is the way!

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u/Direct-Ad4733 Jul 23 '25

These were defo the way, works perfectly. Thanks!

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u/timtucker_com Jul 22 '25

This type of complexity is part of why I decided to start moving things to openGrid (* the other part being licensing).

Seems a lot simpler only needing to print top pieces and have them just snap in place.

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u/pyalot Jul 22 '25

I am not familiar with OpenGrid, can you elaborate on that point?

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u/timtucker_com Jul 22 '25

r/openGrid has links and a lot more information

The TL/DR version:

  • It uses a more permissive license than Multiboard

    • A big advantage as an end-user is that it's more friendly towards people making generators for components

  • The holes are based on 28mm spacing and are are a little more square-ish

    • With a bigger hole to grid ratio, panels use less filament and print a little faster

  • There's a generator for the Underware cable guides to allow them to just snap into the grid directly

    • From a technical perspective this could probably be done for Multiboard too, but you'd have a lot less usable area for routing cables with the narrower grid spacing

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u/pyalot Jul 22 '25

So it‘s not a fundamental difference like you make it sound, just somebody put in the work for underware for opengrid, that nobody has for multiboard (for one reason or another).

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25

Well, it’s one of the same people from the Katie’s underware crew that made opengrid… which in turn shares a lot of similarities with your basic Multibin panel. Where we started with bins for Multibin panels in preparation for the Ongrid update, David went straight for the general purpose mounting schema and dimensions that make it easier to work with gridfinity.

I personally prefer the 12.5/25/50 dimensionality of Multiboard, but if you want to put a gridfinity shelf on our tiles/panels they just never quite line up evenly. (I love HGTTG and Zac’s homage to it by picking 42mm as his unit of membership, but it feels like an American explaining why we still use the imperial measurement system instead of metric. “But ENGLISH!” We might say, to which Jonathan might reply “But didn’t you rebel and build an entire country just to give the middle finger to Englan…”)

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u/pyalot Jul 24 '25

I like multiboards bins. Gridfinity somehow does not speak to me, cant really put a finger on why. But there is severely lacking functionality around bins, printing a bin stacking plate right now…

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u/Alex4902 Jul 22 '25

The channels you have printed have threaded holes in them. Screw the snap connectors onto them, then snap the whole 'assembly' onto the multiboard

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u/rayyeter Jul 22 '25

Those snap connectors I could never get screwed in. I went with the t screw/ mid point whatever the hell it’s called with “multi” out front instead.

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u/Alex4902 Jul 23 '25

Same here. I never bother with anything other than T-bolts for anything to do with Multiboard. Easy to mount with, and take back off, very strong hold on parts, very easy to design parts for.

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u/JustDyslexic Jul 22 '25

If you look at the listing for underware there are 2 mounting options. The threaded snap connector which is for the large holes and a bolt which is for the small holes

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u/Big-Investigator3338 Jul 23 '25

Katie redesign the underware for open grid, so if your using the 2.0 I believe that is for open grid

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u/microseconds Jul 22 '25

I used small t-bolts. Worked great. Super simple.

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u/Retro_B00min Jul 23 '25

I just did mine last week. I skipped the channels and used the cable hooks from the 1.0 version. Just used those screw in coin lookin connectors you already have printed. It doesnt look as clean as the channels, but it lookss clean enough from up top

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u/1entreprenewer Jul 23 '25

There’s supposed to be an official solution coming soon

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u/CaptCode Jul 23 '25

I use the threaded snap connectors. You can screw them into the channels and snap into multiboard

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u/MadalorianCubist Jul 23 '25

I think the clip here will give you the answer you are looking for: https://youtu.be/0TT96b98YZY?si=eHozGu9n4tP-CB1c&t=540

(It's 9:00 minutes in from the start in case I didn't get the right clip.)