When someone peeks into your drawers, are you embarrassed that it’s not neat and tidy in there? Perhaps you have Gridfinity to organise the small stuff but wish there was something for the bigger items, like clothes, cables, kitchen utensils or tools? You’re not alone! Here’s what’s wrong with your current systems:
- Not adaptable: your life changes all the time, but your set-up can’t. Buy something new or want to move something around and it fails
- No standards: most organisers don’t match your drawers’ dimensions – one size fits none.
- Don’t work together: systems differ throughout your home, which means you’re having to use custom approaches everywhere
Introducing Neogrid
Forget one-night stands with ineffective storage solutions. Neogrid is the long-term relationship you’ve been dreaming of for your drawers. This system plays well with Gridfinity but isn’t afraid to tackle those big, bulky items that other organisers shy away from.
Get started
- Measure your drawer: ensure a perfect fit
- 3D print the Neogrid connectors: download them free.
- Cut your material:
Material width:
for a snug fit, your material should be around 0.15mm smaller than the Neogrid width. The default file is 8.5mm wide which fits the standard utility board side, but I’m happy to upload different dimensions if that helps too!Custom widths: If you want to use a different thickness just download the Fusion 360 files and change the material thickness parameter.
Material length: I recommend short lengths of 160mm to make it really flexible and adaptable for future changes.
If you do wish to stray from these dimensions, to ensure compatibility with Gridfinity just make sure that your lengths are a multiple of 42mm. Once you have your chosen length, just subtract the thickness of the material (e.g. (42 x 4) – 8.5 = ~160mm). - Slot it together: and if you’re not happy, just change it!
Material suggestions
Whether you fancy the sturdy charm of MDF or the sleek transparency of acrylic, Neogrid supports all your material desires! I use uPVC window trim (also known as ‘utility board’) as it comes in very long lengths, requires very little painting (if any!) and is super easy to cut. It also comes in many different colours and is suitable for indoor or outdoor use.
But let me know if you have any genius alternative ideas! The ideal solution is cheap and requires minimal effort.
Technical specifications
Download Neogrid Free
Head over to Printables by clicking the download button below to access all the files for free! If you do find them useful and you want to have even more solutions, then you can join my Patreon gang!
Great Idea. Can I use the as is 8.5mm joiners for standard Uk 9mm board, or do I need to change it? Cheers
Do you mean 9mm MDF or something else? I’d recommend just adjusting the files to suit your board thickness – there’s a little bit of discrepancy between printers too, so worth a test. I’d imagine for 9mm board, aiming for a 9.1mm spacing might work well!
Shout if you need any help – I think one of my Patreons on the discord channel might have already adapted for 9mm, so I could check too!
This project looks so awesome. You single-handedly got me to get (back) into 3D printing. Got the Bambu P1S, started with Gridfinity and Multiboard. Now I really want to start Neogrid for all drawers in the house.
However, I live in Germany and we don’t seem to have anything similar to the British standard. Your default is 8.5mm, the only MDF I was able to find is 3mm. Not sure if that is sturdy enough for this.
Maybe it’s a silly question, but where are the Fusion360 files? When I follow your printables link, I only get a zip archive with *.stl files, no other file format in there.
Thanks for inventing this project and your inspiration =)
Thanks Ben!! New video showing this in my Kitchen coming this week, so you’ll see more of it in action! 😉
I’ve asked some of the German gang in my Discord channel and they’ve said you can get lots of MDF in different sizes from places like Obi, Hornbach, Bauhaus and Toom in Germany, so it shouldn’t be too hard to fin (9mm is likely the closest proxy), but 6mm should be more than enough for most use cases too!
On the Fusion files – check in the zip file and there’s one called: Neogrid 0.3 – Master File.f3d ?
I can email you it if you’re really struggling, but it’s definitely there, I just checked! 😉
Thank you 🙂 Great resources that I totally forgot exist (don’t need to amazon everything, I guess!!).
Sorry, I was looking at Underware (the project ^^) when writing this, thinking I was in the Neogrid folder. The file was there as it should be. My bad.
Excited about the new video =) I’ll give it a look when I get home.