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Ikea Alex Organizer Version 2 (Work in Progress)

10/4/2021

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I canceled the Version 1 of the Ikea Alex Organizer after learning to appreciate the grid systems for indexing the small organizer boxes over my idea to index them with little pyramids.  The pyramids would have worked, but they wouldn't have allowed the boxes to be moved around much after the pattern was set.  With the grids that can be done all day long.  I was especially impress with Duke Doks' version for an Ikea Helmer drawer, which I used as an inspiration for making the model above, which is designed to fit the smaller of the Ikea Alex drawers.  Many of the dimensions were taken from Duke Dok's version, for example the grid is nearly the same, but made larger for the bigger boxes, which are about 58mm square for the single 1x1 version.  The other larger boxes are just expansions from the 1x1 box in the lower left of the pic. 

I liked the way the Duke Doks storage boxes have a label tab which doubles as a handle, but instead of having just the tab centered on each box, I designed mine to run the full length of the box, which should make them a bit stronger.  There are two version of each box as well, one with the tab along the short edge (cyan) and one along the wide edge (orange).  The blue boxes are square so they don't have a long or short edge.

I have been printing these using a 0.6mm nozzle which gives 2 walls since (1.2mm thick), and found that a slight over extrusion of PLA+ seems to be the strongest.  I printed in PETG and they are fine, but not as solid as the PLA+ so I am switching over to PLA+ for the remainder of them (I also ran out of PETG).  So far I have only printed the 1x1 and 1x2 boxes, but now have things dialed in and will begin printing some larger boxes, though I probably won't be printing the largest of them.

Once I have enough to fill a drawer and can confirm everything fits as it should, I will post it up to Thingiverse and Cults3D.


Update 10/14/2021 - Well, I have a drawer filled up, but I'm a bit busy so it will be a few days before I can upload this to Thingiverse (which is having some problems right now).  I noticed that the furthest back boxes will need to be at minimum 3 units deep since otherwise they would not be accessible.
Update 10/20/2021 - I have been printing boxes when I have a chance and they are working really well so far.  However, I  noticed that my boxes do not stack very well, and I am testing a small change to help with that.  The change will require a couple hours to fix on all the boxes, so I'm doing one test print to verify the fix on a 3x3 box.  If it works, then I will update the rest of the boxes with the fix.  After that, I plan to make some half height (50mm) tall boxes which will work for the shorter drawers, or they can be stacked in the taller drawers.

Update 10/22/2021 - the modification worked and the larger boxes stack perfectly.  I have still not had time to make the half height boxes or get these posted up, but that will be soon.
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