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How It Works

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MODULITH is a storage system you 3D print. Printed cases click together into a unit of drawers and shelves, and you can add to it or rearrange it later.

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A finished MODULITH tabletop build on a wooden desk: black cases and covers with nine orange drawers in mixed widths and heights.

How it goes together

Shown with the 185 Tabletop Kit.

  1. One printed case alone on a dark grid, an open box lying on its back.

    1 Print the cases. Each one is an open box that holds a drawer or a shelf.

  2. Four cases joined two wide and two high, orange QuickLocks seated in the side walls.

    2 Click them together with QuickLocks, side by side and stacked. No screws between cases.

  3. The same four cases with covers closed and four orange drawers seated in them.

    3 Slide in the drawers, or fit a shelf instead.

  4. The finished unit: gray faceplates with tan handles on all four drawers.

    Optional Change the front if you like. Decor drawers take swappable faceplates and handles.

How cases connect

A printed QuickLock joins each case to the next. Slide a case on and it clicks into place. Press the tab and it slides off again, so you can rearrange a build whenever you like.

Animation: a QuickLock drops into the top of a lower case's side wall. The case above slides on from behind, shown in x-ray as it presses the tab 3 mm down, and at full seat the spring snaps the tab up into its keyhole.

Where it lives

The same cases stand on a desk, hang under one, or mount on a wall.

A Tabletop Kit standing on a wooden desk, orange drawers, black covers and feet
Tabletop

A freestanding, self-contained unit on its own feet.

 Red drawers hanging under a workbench top on under-table rails
Under-table

Hung beneath a desk, shelf or work surface.

 A Wall Mount Lite bracket screwed into a wood-panelled wall beside a stack of labeled drawers
Wall-mounted

Fixed to a wall on a bracket, with rows hanging below.

Drawers or open shelves

A Classic drawer pulled part-way out of its case: a single printed piece with a grip moulded into its front. Classic drawer

The grip is printed into the front. Nothing else to add.

A Decor drawer pulled part-way out of its case, its open flat front showing, with a separate black faceplate and handle floating just in front of it. Decor drawer

A flat front for a faceplate and handle, so you can change the look without reprinting the drawer.

An open shelf in a build: parts boxes resting on a white shelf insert with a black front lip, drawers in the rows below. Open shelf

A Shelf Insert takes the place of a drawer. An optional lip along the front keeps things in.

Cases, drawers, shelves and the Planner are free. Some decorative faceplates are paid Club designs.

Sizes

Available in six depths, from shallow parts storage to deeper tool drawers. A Starter Build gives you a ready-to-print starting point, or compare sizes in the Size guide.

Where to start

A finished Tabletop Kit standing on a desk. Start with a Starter Build

Every file listed, the hardware counted, and a guided 3D assembly. The easiest way to your first build.

Browse Starter Builds The free Planner: a 185 tabletop build laid out on its grid, five orange drawers placed, with the covers drawn above and the foot rails below. Design your own

The free Planner lays your build out on your printer's bed and lists every file it needs.

Open the Planner

Measurements and what fits with what are in the Size guide. Building now? The assembly instructions cover all three mounts step by step.