I've seen other makers who I greatly admire, organizing their workspaces with Ikea Skådis pegboards, but hadn't had time or the inclination to attempt to try and organize my workspace in a similar way, until recently. I'm trying to break the old habit of confusing "storage" with "organization", since I've realized (too late), that putting stuff in drawers is the surest way to forget where it is when I need it. The beauty of using pegboards, is that it's hard to forget where something is, when it's staring me in the face. I recently posted about how I made some Skådis pegboards and mounts, and after installing them, I decided to make some bins, drawers and tool holders for my stuff. Most of the things I'm using are stuff I made, but there are a couple that were remixed as well. I also found some cool designs which fit some of my tools (specifically holders for the IWISS tool holders by Reitangle over on Printables).
Currently I've filled up two pegboards with bins, drawers, holders and tools, and have a new project for adding one to a kitchen. I'm not sure when these will get posted or how, but I think this is gonna be an ongoing side project for a while at least.
Currently I've filled up two pegboards with bins, drawers, holders and tools, and have a new project for adding one to a kitchen. I'm not sure when these will get posted or how, but I think this is gonna be an ongoing side project for a while at least.
8/30/2025: There were a couple designs which I previously had taped to a cabinet with 3M Command Strips, but needed to move over to a Skådis pegboard which was going to be placed in the same location, so I reworked them a bit. These have not been updated with the changes, but the model for the label dispenser can be found on MakerWorld. I guess I have not posted the Equal holder though, so will add that to the growing list of stuff to do. I also designed a sharpie holder, which holds 2 pens, but did not grab a good pic of that one.
I'm also working on the drawers. The base design is completed, but I decided it would be cool to have handles which can be printed separately (in a different color), or even customized. The handles will also help to lock in the labels, though they stay in well enough regardless of a handle being installed or not. The handles will require a bit more work to add to all the types and sizes of drawers I've designed so far, but I first need to fully test the fit of them. The last pic below shows one of the latest prototype drawers with the separate handle.
I'm also working on the drawers. The base design is completed, but I decided it would be cool to have handles which can be printed separately (in a different color), or even customized. The handles will also help to lock in the labels, though they stay in well enough regardless of a handle being installed or not. The handles will require a bit more work to add to all the types and sizes of drawers I've designed so far, but I first need to fully test the fit of them. The last pic below shows one of the latest prototype drawers with the separate handle.
9/5/2025: I feel the general design for the Skådis drawers is complete, but I have not yet posted it. The one issue with the drawers is making printed labels for them. Using the slicer can be a bit tricky, since it lacks tools to align text, and adding text from a CAD app is even more of a challenge when there are many labels to make. That is why I'm now looking at simplifying the labels into a template that would would with the MakerWorld (MakerLab actually) "Make My Sign" tool. I've used that tool in the past to make some name plates for a symposium, and it worked out really well. The workflow for those included merging the generated nameplates with a custom model for a nameplate, but for these labels, I think everything can be done within the MakerLab tool. I'm currently running some tests to proof this out, and if it works well, I should be able to create the four templates required to fit all the different drawer sizes. Then it will just be a matter of sharing the template when I post the drawers, and then folks can easily create nameplates using the "Make My Sign" tool.
Something that was a bit problematic with this process however, is that my CAD program will not properly export 2D shapes as a single "path" when exporting to .SVG. It instead dumps a bunch of "polyline" statements into the .svg it exports. It is also missing the "viewBox" parameter. The "Make My Sign" tool does not like that, which is understandable, since the polylines do not create a closed path. And since my exported .SVG files were not a single continuous "path", I was failing to import my svg's as a baseplate in the "Make My Sign" tool.
The fix was to export the shapes as an STL, then import that STL into TinkerCAD, and then export the STL as an SVG from TinkerCAD. Thanks to Xombieparts over on Reddit for the suggestion to use TinkerCAD to export to SVG.
The fix was to export the shapes as an STL, then import that STL into TinkerCAD, and then export the STL as an SVG from TinkerCAD. Thanks to Xombieparts over on Reddit for the suggestion to use TinkerCAD to export to SVG.
The other, and much smaller issue, was that when importing the .svg into MakerWorld, the dimensions get scaled to about 4/3rds of the original, and need to be rescaled based on the actual dimensions. This is not a huge problem, but something I need to be mindful of when setting up the templates. My first test print of a label was about 10mm too narrow to fit the drawer, but I think I may have it properly sized now, and am running a second test print for a label using the "Make My Sign" tool.
9/6/2025: Now that the process to get a working SVG file has been sorted out, I went ahead and created "Make My Sign" templates over on MakerWorld, for all the bins and drawers which I've designed so far. I'm testing some of them now. I think using the "Make My Sign" tool will be a big time saver for making printed labels, and fortunately there wasn't much that needed to be changed in the design.
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