IKEA ALEX Gridfinity Baseplate Stacked Kit by mountainMakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models

mountain

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Print Profile(2)

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P1S

P1P

X1 Carbon

X1E

H2D

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

Designer

5 h

1 plate

4.9(210)

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill, with PETG support

5.1 h

1 plate

4.4(10)

Open in Bambu Studio

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Description

A Gridfinity Baseplate Kit for the IKEA Alex Drawers. Prints out one drawers worth of baseplates in one go, rather than six separate prints!

Comment & Rating (277)

@vedder

What did I do wrong? do I need to activate supports? first grid was perfectly adhered to build plate, the second one detached… found this mess this morning

@vedder

Second attempt, made sure .2 layer is selected, increased bed temp, nozzle temp, decreased speed, it failed exactly the same, I believe it could be my room, is too cold and making second grid to warp and then nozzle bumps it out of place… any ideas?

@JHOW3D

Replying to @vedder :

I'm having the same issue right now. The first grid is warping too much at the corners and ultimately gets knocked out by the nozzle. Thinking some glue, a higher quality filament, or a different build plate may do the trick

@vedder

Replying to @JHOW3D :

sorry for late reply, did you find a solution? I had to print one by one, I think this is for an enclosed printer only, or a very hot room…

@ManagingLions

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

it printed out well enough, but I believe at least with my Sunlu PLA+ with the base profile each section did not have enough separation from one another to be able to detach each section from the next. Essentially, it made the print not usable at all as I cannot separate anything without damaging it greatly. Maybe a print profile or remix is needed that separates each section better.

@user_2377175221

I was using eSun PLA+ and mine looked like this, but using the Bambu scraper tool I was able to separate each layer w/o too much difficulty

@user_106895912

I had the same issue with BL Matte, ended up breaking a plate trying to separate.

@Toastomat

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Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

Fits perfectly in the drawer Thank you for the model🫶🏼 The print plate where all the grids are printed at once unfortunately didn't work for me, so I printed each part individually 👌🏼

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@user_2827756812

How are you able to open your drawer that much?

@Toastomat

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Um…? 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m pulling them out. Is that unusual? I don’t know the drawers any other way 😅

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@Aphex242

Just wanted to say that for anyone considering this to check their Ikea Alex drawers - they aren't all the same depth. This kit is for 12 grids deep plus a spacer. Mine holds 10 grids deep EXACTLY. This kit (which I used in part), isn't designed for that size and you'll have issues. It's not the designer's fault, but I wish in the description he included this info to save people from printing the wrong ones for their drawers. Otherwise this print is excellent and worked really well for me.

The designer has replied

@mountain

What Alex do you have? The 9 drawer? It appears that one is bit shorter in depth than the 5 drawer units. I had not noticed that before and will definitely make that clearer.

@Aphex242

Replying to @mountain :

The 9 drawer. As I did more research today I totally see this is what's going on. The 9 drawer is still 7 wide, but only 10 deep, not 12. It's nearly exact. Front to back, it's 10 grids (with the half grid lines on the edges, not full ones obviously), plus around 2mm. My drawers are 425mm deep by my measurement, which you can verify by the grid description above. Maybe you could make an alternate profile for that? I'd love that, I'd still need to print a couple more, and I suspect others would get some real use out of it. This is the product page. Of course the measurements only show the total drawer depth including the front and the sides (which protrude out the back slightly). https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/alex-drawer-unit-with-9-drawers-white-90486139/ Thanks for following up!

@ethan93m

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I think I'm confused! I printed the profile of stack and they came apart wonderfully. The issue is these do not fit my 9 drawer Alex.

@ethan93m

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Issue is the 9 drawer Alex dimensions are not the same. sorry for the comment. I'll just have to make one to fit mine.

@Aphex242

Replying to @ethan93m :

If you do, please comment here. I'd love to print it if you do. I have the same issue.

@KptnAri

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came out perfect, directly printed for a second drawer. thank you for sharing!

@tokamakh3

Print Profile

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 15% infill

Printed well, came apart nicely. Fits the drawer well. I don't have bins to check if they work yet.

@ManagingLions

I honestly do not understand why I am the only one having difficulties with this print. I printed this overnight, and it came out fine, but there was so little separation between each section I couldn't fit anything but an exacto knife through the gaps. It proved too difficult to separate due to this, so I gave up on this print. I did use the print profile suggested. I almost wish it used just a bit more separation between each section so you can just take scissors to each separator and snip it off. I did use PLA Tough, maybe it was too strong of a filament.

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The designer has replied

@mountain

I haven't tried using ToughPLA so that could possibly have been the issue. I was able to pull these apart with just my hands. I understand what you mean, though, as the stacked multiboard prints required the use of a putty knife to get apart! I will do a test print using a PETG middle layer as that supposedly would make separation a lot easier, but that won't be an option for everyone.