Organizing my Office with 3d Printing 

"If my printer is not running, I feel like I am wasting time " - you are a true 3d printing hobbyist now! Welcome

SO SO HAPPY you're having fun 3d printing!!!

Big grats for diving into fusion to change the designs! That's what makes 3D printing custom stuff so incredibly powerful. I need to organise my space so badly 😫

So, old sewist here. Way back in high school sewing class in the 70s we were taught that cloth measuring tape was notoriously inaccurate. For one, they stretch out. Teacher said to keep an accurate metal ruler on hand to measure new and old tapes against to make sure they were accurate. Here we are, decades later and in the next century, and I still have a metal ruler on hand. More than one, really. One in my craft room, one in my toolbox, and one in the kitchen. When I saw you pull out that cloth measuring tape I thought, “Uh oh!” Sorry you wasted all that time and material but those boxes got used anyway. I love your channel. I learn so much even if I never use it. It’s useful to know about it. I’d really love to do some 3-D printing someday but don’t know anyone with one….yet. Well done!

People don't talk about this enough but having good measuring tools is a pretty important thing which you learned the hard way. I also recommend some digital calipers.

As far as having to reprint things because they don't fit, first welcome to the hobby I think we have all done that a few hundred times. It doesn't really apply to the bins, but you can always make a test print of just a piece of the model to see if it will fit. for example I made a shelf for my window unit air conditioner that just friction fits into the vent, Instead of printing the whole model I printed a slice that gave me the geometry and I was able to measure how it fit (or didn't) and make changes. It's a little filament wasted but it helps a lot with more complex projects

joel looks good color graded

I LOVE when someone joins us. When you see the calipers, ooooooooowweeeeeee. One of us, one of us.

Joel is a mad lad in the 3d printing space - the dude is a solid teacher

The b-roll and slow mo slider shots of the printer printing were straight fire. Sara still letting the creativity shine through.

She's really hooked, she's already one of us!

Welcome to 3d printing, wholesome to see your quick progress in this space. The feeling of "I need this but can't find it anywhere, so I'll make my own" is awesome

The collab we didn't know we needed! Love it.

I have been 3d modelling for about 14 years casually and for classes, I still learn new thing now. Also I do recommend learning 3d modelling from scratch. It is much more satisfying.

One crazy idea: just scale the gridfinity grid to a size that evenly fits into your Husky drawers. 42x42mm might be the standard, but it's 3D printing... do whatever works best!

"I feel like if my printer isn't running, I am wasting time." Oh god how did you explain my feeling so accurately

Appreciate the use of metric in this video 🙏🏽

Hey this was super interesting! There's a certain satisfaction you get with a perfectly organized drawer. I actually see a use for a 3D printer now! I've wanted to get into it, but just couldn't find a practical use... this seems really cool tho.

you're starting the hobby with one of todays best printer on the market. thats incredible! When I satarted with my ender 3 a benchy was like 2.5 hours. Now with a bambu its like 16 min. So being able to print those organizer is viable now. When printing with an ender 3 is wasnt much worth doing. Glad you found a new hobby!

Top Tip: If you want to make sure the model will fit, instead of reprinting the whole thing multiple times, just cut a thin cross section and print that.

Welcome to the addiction! Its still wild to me that Ive been at this over a decade now and there are still new comers every day that get bit with the bug. 3DP is a tool unlike any other when it comes to enabling individuals to simply create whatever their hearts desire. Kudos to you for taking the dive and there is none better than Joel when it comes to bringing others into the family. 🤗

one thing that has helped me with 3d printing parts that have constraints is to do a test print. basically a small slice of the original model that I can use to verify measurements, mechanisms, etc without doing a full print. It helps you dial in the printer if need be, potentially save materials on prints that don't pass validation, and because it prints faster then a full print you'll have shorter gaps of time between validation and modifying the model.

Yesssss ... I love when you say "I feel like I'm wasting time if my printer isn't printing" bc SAME. Soon you'll have 5 printers going all at the same time haha.

Gridfinity got me back into 3d printing. Bambu printers are amazing. It makes me focus more on 3D modeling rather than tinkering to get my prints to print correctly

Absolutely wonderful video, Sara! I've been into 3D printing since 2020, and I have to say that you video really shows what the hobby is like. Well done, and happy to have you back!

You watch Zack Freedman toooo!! Love the guy and I'm really glad you love the website. Getting into the 3D printing stuff myself too recently

Wow you really did your homework! From gridfinity, to the f360 add on, to that box generator thingy. Learning CAD is the best companion to 3D printing

The team up I didn’t know I wanted, but am here for

Just FYI, the loading part is pretty much always like that, force it until it snatches it from you. So far it's still very very satisfying.

Hahaha, wonderful! The week I get hooked on 3d printing you have released this video. And while I'm still printing stuff to improve my A1 you not only modify existing models in the slicer software, you are actually able to do CAD!! Brilliant! I have looked into several drawer organization systems and I'll probably go with Neogrid since that doesn't need a ground plate and I hope that increases printing speed and reduces filament use. I'm also looking into the Multiboard system for wall storage. It seems much nicer than the Ikea Skadis I have. More expensive to print, of course, but nice and customizable.

Awesome! The reason your extra with bins broke a bit is that the corners on that end printed in the air. The normal Gridfinity bottom grids has a slope to avoid that, but the added rectangles goes 90 degrees into the air. If you turn on supports it should print clean, and maybe use tree supports, they are usually easier to remove without breaking things.

Amazing video as always! Can't wait for your next video 🔥🔥

that whole section at the end was GOLD. great job and well articulated. And you're right about every single statement/thought! (coming from very experienced in 3d printing FDM and resin and also Fusion 360). Well done! (instantly subbed).

Thank you for highlighting the issues you had because folks new to 3D printing should know things are not always perfect.

Just saw 3D printing nerds video unboxing so glad you are printing now!

Funny timing, my printer arrives tomorrow and, I am frozen to what I want to print first. Everything you showed for organization, is exactly what I am looking for. I cant wait,,,,, to wait for it to print.

Yes Sara! Let’s go this will be fun. P.S. you’ve been missed

What a fantastic video! It's awesome seeing someone else get into a hobby that you love yourself, and boy did you dive in head first! Good luck finding the surface again

Hey you inspired me to organize my desk with gridfinity, nice Video, i am always sad when my 3d Printer has nothing to do 😮😅 so gridfinity will be my next prints for several days 😊 and welcome to the Club of 3d printing enthusiast 👍

She's me fr!! I have just been printing things that fit specifically like my camera batteries and what not. I've actually printed gridfinity items but didn't realize it. This was very useful!!!

So awesome to see Sara and 3DPrintingNeder teaming up 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

Can you please organize my studio...and my life? lol. How satisfying!!!

Man now I want a 3D printer! lol. They seem to be getting better and better so fast. So cool you can tweak things completely to your needs (even if it takes you hours and you die a little inside doing things over and over lol) but yes the drawers looks spot on! I have a few pro big camera boxes and loved that one has adjustments you can move and re stick with velcro but gives you nowhere near this level of customisation. Anyways great video as always :)

I recommend including a low end dedicated graphics card (Nvidia: RTX 4050, RTX 4060, AMD Radeon: RX 7600) on your desktop/laptop upgrade, it help for all the 3d rendering (i.e. Blender, CAD, Slicer software).

Yay!! Your soul is fed!! Best kind of videos ❤🎉

So much fun and idea sparking watching this. I realized though very quickly that I don’t have the time for this. Definitely opportunities for people to provide this as a service.

Fellow 3D printer here and noob content creator on here and TikTok. I found you by way of Joel and I want to welcome you to the world of 3D printing. Glad to have you and our world is better for it. I have about 8 printers now but, please let me know if you have any questions.

Welcome to the madness, as a quick note on your issue with grid finity, instead of modifying it with the cad program you can resize the x & y of the models in bambu studio, make sure you uncheck the box to deselect the uniform scale box. In that way you can make them fit your needs, when you change it write down the size you ended up using, when you print the parts that will go into them make the same size adjustments. I have done adjustments like this quite a bit.

Ah yes, the near-universal need for more printers to get projects done faster. I have 5 X1 Carbons and I love them!!!

Your color grading is just looking insane I feel like it’s gotten just so much better

Fun video! Even with good measurement tools, it can be hard to get tight fits correct on the first (or second) go. If it is a bigger print, I always print a tester piece of the dimension I want to check. This can often be done without more modelling, just by stopping the print after the first couple of layers are done.

I absolutely love your videos, so easy to follow, interesting and the recap just brings it all together with your points and opinions.

So hype to see you get into this! Good note on the end credits, note taking in specialized projects makes a huge difference.

I wonder if 3d printing people are as happy that you've covered their niche as we (blender people) were to see you try blender! this video was super fun to watch! i admire your drive to try and learn new things! also very happy to hear baby peach is doing well

Welcome to the world of 3d printing! Choosing the Bambu is a great choice! I think they make the closest to consumer 3d printers that any manufacture has come. As for the skinny space, the first thought that came to mind was scaling the grid and bin to fit in the slicing software. Either scale the entire drawer or just that last unused space. My only tip is to print experimental / prototype stuff with the less expensive filaments. For example, Elegoo rapid PETG Black, on sale right now is around $10 a roll if you buy a four pack vs their other colors which are around $15. I usually print my test prints in black and when I'm ready for my final products, I will use the colored filaments.

This was a great roller-coaster, you hit every classic obstacle that 3d printing throws, and you powered your way through all of them! Another option for the edges in drawers is rather than extruding an undersized box, try shortening an oversized one instead. That way you keep the geometry underneath that avoids having to make supports or do any fixups on the base bit. Or just do gridfinity for most of the drawer, then print some bento boxes to fill an exact gap all the way up the side. Also, thanks for the bento-boxes, hadn't seen those before! Another youtuber "Hands on Katie" did a really awesome breakdown on the various organisational methods too. She landed on: gridfinity for horizontal surfaces, Multiboard for vertical, and her own expansion on gridfinity for larger items like clothing etc. Well worth checking out!

the tiny benchy is a profile i added its so tiny but awesome best of luck with your new printer

Nice video. That was quick to get to the point were, if the printer is not printing the unproductive feeling comes. Enjoy and happy printing.

I found this video because on my deep 3d researching dive. This is the first time I hear about the plugin isn't working but I'm like why am I just hearing about this, funny I found this tip through you. Thanks for being the source for helping a girl out learn a bit more 3d skills. 3d printing is MIND BLOWING.

that whole bit about getting measurements wrong and wasted time/filament cutting to the next print sliding in so nicely embodies 3d printing to a tee.I definitely do not have 10 failed prints of my last design on my desk taunting me. The toolbox looks so cool with the black vinyl wrap on the handles.

Very cool and great video! I will say from experience that once you get comfortable in Fusion you will unlock door for pretty much anything you might want to make. Glad to see you are having fun with it!

Been in 3d space for years, first time i have seen grid ininity, even though i have seen Zac's content *mind blown* Thanks Sarah.

I just started too. You have no idea of the HUGE rabbit hole you've gotten yourself into! 😍

Sara Thanks for posting this video

On the 7mm bin vs 6.5mm bins, the 7mm can be machined** down to 6.5mm in a couple of minutes vs. 6 hours of reprinting. ** Disclaimer: This is the first time I'm watching one of your videos, so I don't know what tools you have access to. Re-printing might just be quicker if you're going to go to town on that 7mm bin with a pair of nail clippers! 😉😂

I watched the video from start to finish. It was great! I'm relatively new to 3D printing, but we've opened a makerspace in partnership with a university to highlight the educational possibilities of 3D printing. It's not just about printing; it's about problem-solving, math, engineering, imagination, art, creativity, and, of course, the fear of failure. I love 3D printing; the possibilities are endless!

Nerds being too smart for their own good is straight facts.

Especially thanks for the post-script section of the video. Kudos!

Havent seen your videos for years now. and i am even happier you return with 3d printing content :D

Thanks for the tutorial, am thinking of grabbing a 3D printer but not knowing how to design it has stopped me from purchasing. I know is plenty of stuff to print but would like it for stuff around the house. Keep up the tutorials👍🏼🔥

Looks fantastic.

Definitely a good call getting rid of the shiny chrome and going all black

One thing I learned that I think would help you with saving a bit of filament is doing test prints that are only a few layers high in order to make sure that it fits the space you want. I've wasted more filament than I cared to admit to on (like you) 6+ hours only to find out it doesn't fit! so only doing maybe the first 40mins-1hr of the print is probably long enough to get the dimensions of the boxes to know it fits accurately.

I have a tip to stop wasting filament and time when printing something to fit... For example, you make an organiser to fit a certain sized space... Don't print the entire thing... Instead copy the outside width and length size of the box/organiser you need and just print basically a 'ring' (whatever shape you need) with a width of 4mm wide all the way around and 4mm high. This is strong enough to use as a test fit tool and if it doesn't fit, then take measurements from this 'ring' to re-adjust your model. I found this to be usefull after I was printing a light switch cover that turned out to be 1mm not wide enough - Yes this works for inside measurements as well as outside measurements. I hope I have made myself clear on my instructions 😁

I'm glad I stayed till the end, Using those husky label angles.

Very informative and fun

Thin baseplate with magnets on Printables for those drawers. You might like Gridfinity Rebuilt for OpenSCAD.

you can add side padding around the outer most edge of the grid. its what i did as my OCD would not let me leave it. i just measured the drawer and kept adjusting how many slots i needed till i hit the max space, then half what was left and entered that into the side padding.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video! I'm currently saving up for a 3d printer myself.

Welcome to 3DP its a very awesome thing to learn!

"Just start it" the best advice. In fact, great advice you gave me directly (on Twitter) so thank you! This was a phenomenal video and can only imagine how much work and effort it took. P.S. great edit what an edit!

The quote of just because you can, doesn't mean you should resonates with me so much.

My laziness alarm was going off within like 30 seconds of the video, saying loud and clear, "I COULD NEVER DO THIS!!" 😂😂😂 It was genuinely so fun watching you do it, though 🤣🤩!

Omg best idea with the drawer pulls. Idk why I didn't come up with that idea, I've had the same issue with the husky drawers lol. So good, ty for sharing everything in this video :)

i just picked up this printer 2 weeks ago! its amazing.

Welcome to the 3D printing world! With Gridfinity, if you're not planning on using magnets you can print a much simpler base grid to use a lot less filament and speed things up.

For larger parts you can always do a test fit, just print a few millimetres of the base and see if it fits, if it does, re print the whole thing, if not resize and repeat.

This was my first view of one of your videos. I found both you and it super entertaining. You are a real natural at this. I am a 3D hobbyist, which is what attracted me to this particular video when it just popped up on my screen. I have no idea what you usually talk about in your videos, but I enjoyed this one so much that I subscribed just to fine out. 🤔👍

I recently got my own 3d printer and it’s all I’m doing right now. I feel this soooo much!

This was so satisfying

As desperate as I am for organization, I just don't have the bandwidth to start 3D printing; but yeah, I'd love to have one. I do love the idea of using a toolbox in my office to organize stuff, though! I think I'd use antistatic foam in the drawers, but that may be my next purchase. I do believe that 3D printing holds a lot of promise, and i'm sure that someone is using AI to generate 3d print files. Printing with metal filament will be a game-changer, and if there is ever a way to infuse magnetic particles into the plastic filament, there's a whole new side hustle for someone - printing custom magnets.

I love seeing Dad Mode John. Also, thanks for a 3d printing video. I have been thinking about it for years now. Might just do it soon

Gridfinity is your answer :) it has a lot of different premade boxes for it already.

Gridfinity is a rabbit hole that you will never come out of. Welcome to the club! Also pro-tip, Joel suggested Tinkercad. It is EXCELLENT for modifying STL files. It could make your box change in just a few minutes and it a very simple tagline way!

'Hello World of 3D Printing' 🤣 Can you print the boat in multiple colours using its equivalent of a For Loop?

im 20 seconds into this video and I know Sarah is going to be the reason I finally cave and try 3D printing

I didn't have Sara learning to 3D print on my 2024 bingo card. I'm here for all the 3D printing content!

nice one!!

maybe try a foldable wood ruler. in Germany we call it a "Meterstab" and it is great for measuring stuff for 3D Printing and measuring in general

Glad Joel set you up with an X1C so you don't have to worry about maintaining the 3d printer itself. I enjoyed it at first but now I just want to focus on designing stuff, not dealing with failed prints due to bed adhesion issues, a random loose screw, etc.