Why Mechanics NEED a 3D Printer 

A viewer sent me a link to some great looking socket holders also using gridfinity! It's for 3/8" and 1/2" and you twist the socket to lock it into place so it doesn't fall out. Take a look if you're also looking for a socket organizer! www.printables.com/model/680228-tracktwist-socket-holder-12-inch-and-38-inch-drive Otherwise the rest of the models I designed are available for free on my website at: www.buildautomedia.com/gridfinity

I think I'm going to but a 3D printer just to print Gridfinity bins. This system is awesome.

I have started doing the same thing and have found the efficiency gains are real! Thanks for posting your files. I need to post some of the bins I designed for some Allen drivers as well. If anybody is thinking about doing this; it’s well worth it!

Great content, production value of your videos are going up which is awesome to see. Please keep making videos!

Yo thanks so much my brother and I are setting up our fab shop and this is just what we needed thanks for taking the time to share this with us

I have had a 3D printer for a while now, but after watching this video and zach's videos I'm starting my gridfinity adventure! Great video

Enjoyed your video journey. I’m an Electrical Engineer woodworker. Your analysis will help me bring 3D printing into my woodshop. Thanks

Hey. GREAT video. You REALLY do a wonderful job for us guys who are builders, doers and makers in other mediums. You explain your reasons, thoughts and ideas well. I took the 3D printer leap a couple of months ago for the Shop and have been very happy with projects I've found on maker sites as well as creating and making my own specific needs things. Once I thoroughly learn Fusion 360... LOOK OUT!! 🤣

Great video! I can totally relate and thank you for sharing your designs for our bigger tools. My printer might arrive today, can't wait to assemble the kit! :)

very detailed and great information u have provide. thankyou very much. u are a good mechanical influencer. i really appreciate your efforts. Thank you very much for detailed explanation and templets

I love the gridfinity system! I really like your Allen holder. Much cleaner than the one I designed. Thanks for making the models available. As far as budget printers there a really solid, the sovol sv06 and sv06plus. Especially the sv06 plus with its 300x300x340 build area and a filament runout sensor. I paid $350 for my sv06 plus but had to wait a few weeks to get it. Assembly is pretty much just bolting 2 parts together and clipping on the power supply. Took 10 minutes and had serviceable instructions. There are also plenty of yt videos covering it. I like having the larger build area because I can stack more parts on the plate and then let it rip while I'm doing other things. I'd rather have a 20-hour print than 2 10 hour prints. I was also able to get klipper going on my sv06 and my sv06 plus powered by an old laptop. Cut most of my print times by at least 25% while keeping tolerances and finish acceptable. Hope that's helpful to someone.

Good job! I just lost every tool and tool chest I own...and 14 classic vehicles, to a fire. Starting from scratch again, so I'll print your designs while I wait for the insurance to cough up!!. Thanks for making them ,and for the video's you put out.

You literally just described my problem...I have the knick knacks but I also got the automotive tools...my workspace is a shit show...lol Thanks for the hard work with SW been meaning to do the same!!

Love the box! The modular desing is great, love the builds, love the channel!

Thanks for giving away all your models. I need to orgainze my toolbox...

Great video, found it while researching Gridfinity parts. I come from the 3d printer group and use it mostly for functional parts. Therefore I'm not using it often, but it's a godsend when I need it. Primarily for enclosures for electronics. Recently I designed a HEPA/active coal filter for a silencing box for my projector. Adapters for vacuums and wood working tools are common as well. Being able to design and print custom parts can make your life so much easier. I think it's a good choice to get a proper and big 3D printer in your case. If you like the Gridfinity system you might also like the Honeycomb Wall which is a similar community driven standard just for walls. I wouldn't hang a heavy hammer drill on it, but some smaller tools might fit great. I had a peg board before, but the accessories were hard to get and very expensive. Like 30$ for some hooks and some plastic boxes. The Honeycomb Wall is easy to extend and its easy to make custom parts for it too. Really like it!

Hey man, thanks a lot for your efforts. I do mostly use small tools and desk top equipment, but I really need to organize my bigger tools in my garage so I really appreciate your efforts to optimize the system for bigger tools. Thanks a lot man, your making my life a lot easier if nothing else.

Very, very cool!

Excellent content! Well done. Liked and subscribed and looking forward to watching you use that very cool Qidi printer with engineering grade materials, as I am on that path as well. Thanks for making your models available. Will definitely be downloading and printing them. Can't speak for Zach, but I've been watching his videos for a long time and I'll bet he'd be thrilled with your application of his Gridfinity system. I'm currently building a 3D print farm I'm having a ball with it. It's great to have micro manufacturing and rapid prototyping capabilities for my R&D projects for my and my buddies' race cars and many other things. Just a suggestion re modeling software for anyone interested; there's an application called Plasticity that's really intuitive and amazing. It's not free, but it is not expensive and it's excellent and fun to use. And, just to make people aware, there are many workflows for Blender that let you gear things directly toward precision hard surface modeling, as opposed to the organic stuff with which Blender's commonly associated. I'm a motion graphics, interactive programmer, VR, webdev, video and audio production guy, in addition to all the other weird stuff I'm into, and a cool new feature of Plasticity is it's ability to live-link your models into Blender, which is a really interesting and useful workflow. Anyway, great job! I've currently got 2 Bambu Labs P1Ps and a Creality K1 along with 5 Ender 3s and an Elegoo Saturn 2 rig for resin stuff, so far, and the newest printers are just friggin' amazing. I've built an enclosed print farm space in my Shop/Studio that'll eventually hold around 40 printers that I'm working to fill, bit by bit.

very cool.

nice job man

I just subscribed! I cant wait to see what you make. I only have 3.5 printers and 1 full frame up project Jeep, 1 "just needs a motor" jeep, my daily driver jeep (also a project lol) and a suzuki samurai project lol.

Gridfinity FTW!

I need to get into 3d printing.

Great video. There's another creator who came up with a similar idea called Alexandre Chappel, who I think GridFinity was based off of. I'm pretty sure it's a different grid size to GridFinity, but Chappel's a woodworker so a lot of his usecases for his own system is designed for bigger tools and whatnot. Worth a look into for inspiration

One of the other good tricks with smaller tools is designing pockets for embedded magnets. Put a pause in your gcode just before the pockets get capped, drop your magnets in, then resume the print.

Great video. New subscriber

Agreed.

Honestly I can't believe how much I use my 3d printer. When I talk to people they just don't understand why or what you would print. I think I print something for myself or family a couple times per week. One cool thing you could work in to your prints is adding embedded neodymium magnets. How good would it be to pop off that tray of tools and stick it to your work area? I embed them in everything. The plastic layer protects surfaces and your items stay put. Nice job BTW I'll have to check out some of your stuff.

Try to put a predetermined number of tools away when you're done for the day. That way, even if you don't put them all away, it's still better than searching for ALL of them.

I’m a polymath and I finally picked up a 3D printer and I’m doing the same thing. My auto tools, my small electronics tools, my gardening tools plus small cute pots, my chef/cooking tools, watch repair tools, etc etc etc. I picked up the gender 3 v3 SE and it is able to do a 5x5 no issue, $200 new but they have had sales recently that got it down to $160

I don't have a better solution exactly. However I think I'll be trying lining the drawers with pegboard so i don't need to print that bit. Model for that and also add magnets to the bins likely to get set on project cars....heck the magnets might be enough for the toolbox or i may make a template to drill holes in the drawers for bin location, i simply dislike the material and print time for the grids.

I've also used the 3d printer for multiple small parts fixes. I would say that CAD is necessary for that, since the best application for a 3d printer is to fix or improve something so specific, you can't find anything alike in the market.

Nice video! I’m in the midst of doing the same thing for my kitchen, using Alexandre Chappel’s grid system on which Gridfinity was based. There’s real benefit to the whole idea of “a place for everything, and everything in its place.” There’s also an intangible benefit, which is that it’s just that much more of a pleasure to work in the space when it’s well organized. By the way, just my opinion, but I think you could lose the second camera angle and save some time in the video editing. That whole off-axis camera gimmick is unnecessary and, to me, a little annoying.

As a Avid 3d printer user I Have some good recommendations myself for good 3d printers. For a budget I would go for the Ender 3 Pro rather than the Base 3, the little more money goes to a much better performance. For a mid range (still cheap though) I strongly recommend the elegoo Neptune 3 pro, Its a little more expensive than the ender 3 pro But you get an insane amount more. You get a direct drive extruder (opens up more filament options), it has auto bed leveling so that's one less thing you have to do every few prints, and more features that make it the best beginner printer on the market right now for it price. For a expensive one my two biggest recommendations are the prusha i3 printers for there really good reliability or bambulab which are equally as reliable and have a crapload of features.

You are just like me, totally disorganised and messy. Tool boxes have trays that are too shallow for most tools to be seen and stood on end long sockets will not go in. Did you make a cage to stop 10mm sockets from escaping?😊

This grid thing is avesome. If you use allen keys often, it simply won't work, Wiha ergostar (butterfly) holder is the way to go, have a look and thank me later. I'm tempted to buy my first printer and the more videos I watch the less decided I am 😂I want to be able to print usable parts out of nylon. I use Shapr3D for modeling as I was struggling with Fusion and Solidworks. Thank you for your video.

Hey its not being cheap. Building vs buying? Its self reliance!!!

I have separate small carry boxes, if i need wrenches, go get the wrenches box, or the rachet and socket box, never seen anyone do that, do you have a idea why? I carry them to the car, and i can put the tool away in the box again, and never have the need to do a pile

I think this solution is amazing. I would like to same the same thing but with more custom bins. Never 3d printed before tho... I do mobile mechanic work, and my toolbox stays in the back of a box truck in the Texas heat. What type of filament do you recommend?

Hi, tried to get to your website but get an error

Can you upload the files to printables/thingiverse/thangs?

What kind of tool box is that?

You happen to of released the files anywhere?

You're wasting steps designing it then printing it to check fit. Take a picture and design around that if your software allows you to use refrence images.

"i like good tools" also "all my tools are from the US" hah a good laugh"

Some of Lincoln's welders are made in China (and they're still 😗👌 quality)

You did not steal zack’s thunder. Zack is a hack who stole the idea of gridfinity from Alexandre Chappel. Look up Alexandre’s channel, he is really awesome and creative. Alexandre offers his stuff to print but he charges for the models. Zack took his intellectual property that he was selling and changed a few tiny details and called it gridfinity. Zach did make slight mention of alexandre in his original gridfinity video. It I a shame that everyone is giving credit to Zach who could not think of something cool and unique if his life depended on it. These should be called Chappel system or something.

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