r/openGrid

My personal favourites:1. keyboard 2. Leverless 3. Joycons.

Hey everyone,

I built a tool called GridfinityStudio because I kept designing Gridfinity parts one at a time, then realizing later that the whole drawer layout did not actually make sense.

The idea is to plan the drawer first, then print. You can set up a drawer, place bins, generate baseplates, plan stacks, create cutout blanks, and see how the whole layout fits together before committing to a bunch of prints.

Link: https://gridfinitystudio.com

It is still early, but a few people have tested it and I’ve already cleaned up several issues from their feedback.

I’d love blunt feedback from real Gridfinity users. The best test would be to pick one real drawer, try to rough out a layout, and tell me where the workflow gets confusing, annoying, or broken.

I’m especially interested in:

• Does the drawer-first workflow make sense?
• Is the bin/baseplate/stacking flow understandable?
• Is anything hard to find?
• Are there any obvious bugs or weird UI issues?
• What would you expect it to do that it does not do yet?

Thanks. Blunt feedback is genuinely helpful right now.

Special thanks to the mods for letting me share!

Quick update: the blank-window issue some people hit right after posting was caused by a last-minute CSP change. It should be fixed now. Thanks to everyone who called it out.

I’m almost done with this desk shelf I built from walnut, with two laptops mounted underneath, a KVM in the middle and OpenGrid underneath for mounting accessories.
The structure is basically finished, but the cables are still a mess, especially the USB-C and HDMI cables behind the laptops.
I’d like to keep everything hidden under the shelf without making it annoying to remove the laptops when I need them.
I’m thinking about using a few cable clamps or small cable winders, but I’m not sure what the cleanest approach would be.
How would you handle the cable management here?

Hi there! I'm terrified, but i'm also proud, at my own level.

I've been running openGrid under my desk for a while now (big fan), and I wanted a way to hang both my laptops from it.

Problem with a laptop tray is it has to fit one specific laptop, so every one I found was modelled around someone else's machine. I made mine parametric instead: you give it the laptop dimensions and your bed size, it generates the tray and cuts it into pieces that fit your printer's bed.

Single or dual stack. It mounts with openConnect snaps into the grid. PLA is fine, and it's rock solid.

It's there if you want your own https://ouvrage.co/laptop-tray
I feel bad because it's not free ($4.99), but who knows maybe it can add some value to some of you.

Cheers