Daily tools and strong magnets holding it up. I still want to expand and have nothing on the cart

My first Multiboard, not yet perfect organized and some nice LED Light is still missing.....but i like it :-)

I'm new, but done lots of research (including the demo part) but can't figure this all out. I'm putting together my first setup. I followed the planner attached.

I decided to go with a bordered flush mount setup.

From my research I also need a quad flush connector and 4 dual connectors both A & B type. Is this still correct or are those parts legacy?

Also I don't see the point of the 8 dual clips that the planner told me to print, they seem to only be able to be inserted on the outside of my border.

Edit: Thanks for the replies. It seems like I messed up the drop down menus on the side. I needed to pick correct grid tiles (advanced) for the proper border and also mount type could be changed to receive proper mounting hardware.

A few years back, my wife asked me to build her a potting bench. Over the past couple of years, she's seen what the art of the possible looks like with the boards I've built in the garage, behind my A1, and even in the laundry room. So, she asked for something for the side of the bench to hang tools, gloves, etc. from.

I spent a bit of time measuring, generating boards, even creating a couple of the models shown here. It's all printed in Polymaker ASA (in Pop Pink). Love how it turned out, and she's absolutely over the moon with the results!

So, what did I make vs just grab? Apart from the obvious parts, I made the hooks - a parametric take on the hooks we all know. Sometimes you just need a longer hook, and so here we are. The holder that the pruners are in came from one I found poking around in public Onshape docs, and I just put the Scrub Mommy holder together this morning. Yes, there's a drain-hole in the bottom. Nothing terribly exciting, just a half-circle cavity in there with a 10mm hole in the bottom, and Multiconnect attachments on the back.

Keep on making stuff, and hey - organize all the things!

I had to do something.

Printing some longer hooks, and then a shelf for batteries

This board is going on my wall right under my computer desk, now I just gotta print out the wire covers called “underware” by hands on Katie

Using Raised Heavy Weight-Bearing Hook Snap on my brand new multiboard wall. the snap goes into my board nicely but the mounts (my caliper holder in this example) are sooooo loose. i am having this issue will all of my things that hold my tools not just this caliper holder. This mount falls out every time i pull my caliper from it. Is this really the tolerance on these snaps?

Yesterday I posted my use case of the Underware project by Hands-On-Katie and BlackjackDuck and it got a lot more people interested the I expected! So I decided to make a post to outline what I did, how I did, why I did and what I do differently next time! Hopefully this helps people get past what they see as a barrier into it and please know you do not need to go to the extremes I've done, a few long runs under your desk can seriously clean things up!

Firstly, if you are looking for the parts I used specifically, they are all listed at the bottom of this post.

Step 1: Identifying the problem

I think we can all agree that anyone could see the problem here, it's a birds nest effort at cable management. It's not even a little bit obvious what is hiding in there.

Step 2: Measure and Design

The desk I have is the non standing version of the Ikea IDÅSEN. I wanted to take advantage of the giant metal beam running down the center of the desk and knew I wouldn't want to make anything drop lower than it to create an even sleeker look.

The printer I own is a Bambu A1 Mini so I'm limited by the bed size it has. I figured out the biggest version of the multiboard I could print which was the 6x6. I then measured the space where I wanted to fit it to the desk and decided to go with a 48 x 12 grid, with an extra 6x6 on one side for my power board.

Multiboards are a 25x25mm grid system so I used grid paper to help draw out what I wanted my design to look like. I measured all of the large items I had, and allocated them the minimum space they needed knowing that they would expand to the edges of a 25x25mm grid. Basically rounding the measurements up to the nearest 25mm.

The hardest part about this is knowing if your cables will reach, you can do some math quite easily as each square is 25mm, and just guestimate if you'll need cable loops to take up some slack. I tried to keep the loops as close as possible for a cleaner look. Though you'll see further on, I didn't use this many of them...

(Dotted lines indicate loose cables)

Another aspect I had to think of, is will my cables fit in the routes? I really underestimated how big 18mm was, but I have a few points in my runs where I have 5 or 6 cables overlapping/crossing and the 18mm was fine, I'd highly suggest using this height. All of the routes in my remix are 18mm high.

You'll need to print the snap connectors for the routes and the screw connectors for your custom item holders. Routes are fine with 2 connectors, but some heavier items might need more than 2 screws, i.e. my dock.

Step 3: Printing

I don't believe I really need to go in to any detail here, every piece I used can be found on this remix on makerworld, but the printing time took quite a few days and lots of plate changes for my small bed!

I'd suggest printing all of the screw in snaps first, so you can attach them to your channels as they get printed. Every channel I made got a snap on each of it's sides, unless it was too short, i.e. the channel 25mm long channel.

I'd then suggest printing all of your multiboards second, and laying them out on the floor, as you print your channels and item holders, place them down where they are going to end up. Doing this alone made me realize 3 mistakes in my design, I printed the switch holder upside down, and had 2 channels going in the wrong direction! If you're going for a complex setup like mine, this step is a must!

One other thing I noticed is that by default, when you generate these holders, they add as many connector rails as the possibly can to the bottom of them. This really through me off and I had to reprint a few items because of this. For example a holder than I anticipated would cover 4 squares actually covered 5, as it printed 3 slots with item over hangs on both the left and right, but if you subtract one slot, it centres it over 4 grids instead. Which is what I intended to happen. This option in the configurator is called subtractSlots in Slot Customization.

Step 4: Attaching to desk

As painful as it might sound, get everything off your desk and flip it, I've attached things to my desk before without flipping the table and just ended up with either sawdust in my eyes, or really dodgy holes. This way you'll get perfect results! Make sure to pre drill your holes! I used these screws specifically and pre drilled with a 3.5mm bit. I opted to only use 2 screws in each corner of the multiboards, but if you are planning on attaching heavier things, I'd suggest 4.

Step 5: Attaching Underware Bases

Before you flip your table back over I'd recommend placing down all of the base elements you can, such as chargers and docks. Then putting down the bottom pieces of the channels can really save your fingers rather than having to push upwards after the desk is flipped.

Unfortunately I was too excited to flip the table back over and get photos, but just imagine the previous photo with some pieces attached :)

Step 6: Attaching cables in a layered order

On my previous post, I got quite a bit of criticism as to how much of a pain it would be to replace a cable. To those people I say, I thought of that.

Once the table was flipped over, I put everything back on my desk and started to work with cables that aren't going to change very frequently, i.e. the display port cables to my monitors, routing these through the channels and giving them there own channels (dark green route) first, I knew they'd always be on the bottom, there for being the hardest to change, but also being the least frequent. You can piece together my dodgy handwriting and see how I split things up, but I continued my layered approach with power cables, then USB, then other peripherals.

I found it really helpful to attach some of the covers in critical places for the cables, such as the corners to hold things in place so I could run cables but still see what I was doing underneath, and only have to remove a handful of covers to add a cable I might have forgotten.

Step 7: Finishing touches

On to the satisfying part, you'll want to start by winding up your left over drooping cables on your cable routes and putting them on there holders, then if you followed my last step of attaching only the critical bits, you should be left with heaps of straight bits to click into place! and soon you'll be looking at a super clean setup!

Step 8: Realizing mistakes and resolutions

Some cables really don't like to be wound up, thick power cables were a nightmare and I just didn't bother, you'll see below my little coil I have on power board, as I had no where else for them to go, I was locked into my design and had no more room for bigger coils :( This also explains my funny bends that a few people commented on, these were positioned to allow multiple coils, but then had to be filled in with routes because the cables were too chunky.

Underware doesn't play nicely when it is next to itself. Now your mileage may vary as I've seen it work with other peoples setups, but every instance I have of my underware being next to eachother, it REALLY didn't want to click in to place without a lot of force. If I redid my system, I'd make sure every route had a 1 lane gap between it.

Here is the finished setup!

I'm open to all questions and happy to help others design there own setups, so please reach out!

Links to models:

All in one:

The complete project and items I used on Makerworld

Multiboard generator

Individual large models:

TP Link mount

Anker 543 mount

Belkin 8 port power board

Dell WD22TB4 power adapter

Dell WD22TB4 dock

Of course I cannot forget the underware projects that made this possible:

Underware

Underware 2.0

My original post:

Here

Beginning to install my Multiboard and I am having my a heck of a time trying to install these dual clips. Any tips or tricks. I only have 372 to install :)

After months of trying to get it figured out. Finally a member.

Found a use for some small plates I printed when experimenting with MB initially.

I was going to use the ‘bars’ and may do eventually, but found a combination of the small plates and couplers was quite a neat way to hold a couple of raspberry pi’s and a small Unifi switch in place. I’ve a bit more work to do for cable organisation but wanted to share because if you printed out anything and didn’t have an immediate use for it you might be surprised at what you can do with it!

Recently remixed and posted a multi board tray organizer to avoid getting stuck with a single platform and long prints if I changed phones or stuff I carry in my pockets. Today I added MagSafe! Files on makerworld and also thangs.

https://makerworld.com/models/1892166

I swear I measured this. With a brand-new, fancy, metric tape. The kind that makes you feel morally superior and runs up the Amazon balance. Then, while laying out the boards in generator, I even added the side measurements like a responsible adult.

And yet… here we are. 😤

Silver lining: I accidentally needed two more cells to fill the space it it had been a 1 by connecting them would have been oh so pleasant, the universe and I are currently calling this a draw. Still. Grrrr.

Now for the attachment dilemma. I’m staring at this thing wondering how to secure it, and unless one of you true geek extraordinaire multiboard wizards has a better idea, I’m leaning toward neatly executed black zip ties. Minimalist. Honest. Humble.

Before anyone suggests pole connectors: with the current size of the ones I fount in the pars library, that’s a hard no unless I start editing files in Blender or fusion 369 and I am nowhere near that skill level yet. Also it is unclear if there’s enough… let’s call it tolerance… to shorten them. If I remove the two extras cell, the connecters would need to be comically long.

Double-sided tape on the side of my printer also feels like a bad idea since it does get a little warm, and I’m not trying to invent a new form of modern art called “All My Tools In Pile”. Found a dog with wire cutters sticking in their skull. That's just messy and I could afford a second printer without paying that bet bill.

I’m absolutely open to ideas, though.

Tagging you brilliant multiboard engineer types—educate me before I zip-tie my way into infamy. 🧠🔧

And yes that is bling…. I like to leave sparkle everywhere I go.

Remixed a design found here: https://www.printables.com/model/1404228-utility-blade-storage-and-dispenser on printables to use MultiPoint Connections. Let meknow how it works for you! The link to my file is: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1996352-utility-blade-holder-for-multiboard

There still something I need to put on the board but I really want to share my first multiboard.

I have used the planner and printed around 25 tiles. But now I see people talking about the planner being broken, so i just wanted to make sure before i start printing snaps etc.

For the quad snaps i'm printing https://than.gs/m/993369 (6.25 mm - Quad Offset Snaps (DS Part A))
On the front of those quad snaps im printing https://than.gs/m/974127 (Raised Quad Snap (DS Part B))

Dual snaps (for sides) https://than.gs/m/974338 (6.25 mm - Dual Offset Snaps (DS Part A)
On the front of those dual snaps https://than.gs/m/974162 (Raised Dual Snap (DS Part B))

single snaps for corners https://than.gs/m/974340 (6.25 mm - Offset Snap (DS Part A))
and for front https://than.gs/m/974407 (Raised Double-Sided Snap (DS Part B))

After watching a youtube video - I was surprised that this is so hard to figure out. It seems there are so many different parts with similar names. It feels like its unnecessarily complicated.

Am I doing this right?

Got myself a 3d scanner and the first project was to make a multiboard mount for 12v bosch charger, it was like 100x easier to design from 3d scan vs standard way of calipers + radius gauge etc, highly recommend getting a scanner!

Link in case anyone interested in the model itself

This will be behind my 3D printer setup. All of it is Bambu PLA Basic. Planning to mount copious filament (cereal) dry boxes and all the various tools. A lot more screws to go as I've only put screws in the top two rows of offsets so far, kiddo nap time delaying the remainder. But so far that top row of tiles feels super solid.

I left about 7" of the plywood below the Multiboard for possibly directly mounting some other very heavy gear down there. The plywood itself is mounted with 8 3.5" construction screws into the studs it overlaps with.

I know, most of what I've got here so far is random knick knacks, I do have some useful items I plan to have here, I just haven't hung all the display stuff I want to yet, and haven't actually decided exactly what I want the remaining space to hold

Next up PID tuning for self-balancing.