Modular Desktop Organizer Building Blocks

Stuff tends to accumulate. At some point your workplace may be cluttered with tools and other things you want to keep within reach. So did mine and i wasn't happy about the usual solution to keep adding one desktop organizer after another.

At this point this modular thing comes into play. It is designed to be expandable to your rising needs. Just print another module and slide it into the notch of the previous one....

As a bonus you can use the modules tilted if you use more than one row (as you can see in the photo above).

What to select?

If you simply don't care about perfect aestetics and want to stay flexible, just use the file "middle-middle.stl" and skip to the print settings section.

There are 3 groups of pre-made organizer modules. I have tested with 3 printers and 2 slicers and as far as i can judge from my tests - as long as you follow the print setting recommendations, all modules are interchangeable.

1. SINGLE ROW, has 3 modules

(yellow in sample image) left-1row.stl - middle-1row.stl - right-1row.stl

1. UNIVERSAL, has 9 modules.

(red in sample image) top-left.stl - top-middle.stl - top-right.stl

(green in sample image) middle-left.stl - middle-middle.stl - middle-right.stl

(blue in sample image) bottom-left.stl - bottom-middle.stl - bottom-right.stl

1. UNIVERSAL 2 SLOTS WIDE, has 9 modules

(red in sample image) top-left-2slot.stl - top-middle-2slot.stl - top-right-2slot.stl

(green in sample image) middle-left-2slot.stl - middle-middle-2slot.stl - middle-right-2slot.stl

(blue in sample image) bottom-left-2slot.stl - bottom-middle-2slot.stl - bottom-right-2slot.stl

There is also added an index courtesy of "Teque5" (https://www.thingiverse.com/make:951909)

My Tinkercad files can be found at: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/jCwCYxHsCZU

Print Settings

Rafts:

Doesn't Matter

Supports:

No

Resolution:

as you like

Infill:

n/a as in vase mode

Notes:

Print in vase mode and ensure a sufficient extrusion width at 0.8 - 0.9 mm!

• Repetier-Cura will set the matching extrusion width automatically in vase mode.
• Slic3r has the "spiral vase" option. Extrusion is adapted in "Advanced" - "Extrusion width"
• Other slicers will have similar options.

The modules are pre-customized for a snug fit. All you can and should do is to adapt the heigth of the module: Default heighth is 100 mm - so scaling the z-axis to 70 % will give you a module with 70 mm heigth.