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Gridfinity Baseplate for Milwaukee® PACKOUT™ Compact Organizer
A 4 × 6 Gridfinity grid shaped to the Milwaukee® PACKOUT™ Compact Organizer. It fills out to the case's curved walls so it can't shift, and any standard Gridfinity bin drops in. Flat, or walled to keep the bins in on end, with pockets all the way round.
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Print settings
- Material
- PLA or PETG
- Layer height
- 0.2 mm
- Infill
- 15%, 3 walls
- Supports
- None
Pick a version, then print one set: two halves on a 256 mm bed, or four quarters on a 180 mm bed, as they come, plate down. The walls print straight up with no supports. The case walls hold the pieces together, so there's nothing to glue. The walled versions take much more plastic and time; the half wall is the quicker of the two.
Install
Step 1
Pick a version and print it
Flat is the quickest. The walled versions put a wall round the grid so the outer bins can't tip out when the case is stood on end: full height reaches the lid, half height (40 mm) holds bins up to 6 units. Two halves for a 256 mm bed, or four quarters for a 180 mm bed. They split on grid lines, so every socket is whole.
Step 2
Drop it into the case
Lift out the organizer's five stock bins. Lay the pieces in, the end with the tabs first: the tabs go into the pockets in the case's end wall. The plate follows the case's curved walls, so it can't shift.
Step 3
Add your Gridfinity bins
Any standard Gridfinity bin drops into the sockets: 1 × 1 up to the full 4 × 6, up to 10 units tall under the lid. Print your own from the thousands of free Gridfinity designs, or mix in ones you already have.
Step 4
Use the pockets (walled versions)
Ribs turn the space between the wall and the case into 20 closed pockets: bits, pencils, hex keys, a marker. The case is the outer wall.
Questions before you build
What is Gridfinity?
An open modular storage standard by Zack Freedman: bins on a 42 mm grid that drop into a baseplate. Thousands of free bin designs follow it, from plain bins to holders for bits, sockets and screwdrivers. This plate brings the grid to the PACKOUT™ Compact Organizer.
Why 4 × 6 and not more?
That's all the case holds. The middle of the case is 194 mm wide, so 4 units (168 mm) fit and 5 (210 mm) don't; it's 293.5 mm long, and a 7th row would need 294. The plate fills the leftover space to the walls, so nothing rattles.
Will the bins fall out if I stand the case on end?
The outer ones can, on the flat plate: Gridfinity sockets are under 5 mm deep. That's what the walled versions are for: the wall keeps the outer row in. Bins in the middle are held by their neighbours, and tall bins by the lid.
Who designed it?
We did, from our own measurements of the Compact Organizer's cavity (the same ones behind our First Aid Kit insert) and the public Gridfinity standard.
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