Mondrian × SKÅDIS — What's new

One ribbon, and a loop for every cable. The holder is a single continuous curve that loops one way, then the other, all the way along. Push a cable through the narrow gap at the top of a loop and it drops inside: the gap is deliberately narrower than the cable, so it has to spread the walls apart and they close again behind it. Nothing to thread, nothing to unclip.

Tell it your cable and the whole thing resizes. Every loop is sized around the diameter you give it — a thin USB lead or a 10 mm power cable — and the gap stays the same fraction of it, so a fat cable gets a generous opening and a thin one a tight one. The mounting pegs stay in the bar underneath, clear of the cable.

As many loops as the run will take. Leave the count at 0 and it fills whatever it’s sitting on: the full length of a rail, the full width of a panel face. Put a number in and you get exactly that many, centred.

A rail now shows you what it will print. Select a rail, open Edit piece, and its cable loops or key hooks are there in the preview — the same geometry the exporter writes, not a stand-in for it. Tick with cable loops or with key hooks and it applies to the rail you have selected, rather than only to the next one you draw.

A panel can carry a model and an accessory. Import your STL onto a panel and give that same panel cable loops or key hooks. Both show up in the editor, and both come out in the file.

Drop a rail in and it seats itself. Flush against the panels either side, with its mounting pegs running straight down the centre of the bar — the strongest place for them to be. No nudging it into position, no measuring, no wondering whether it will actually hang once it comes off the printer.

A rail covers the whole run it serves. Put one alongside a stack of panels and it takes the full height of that stack in a single bar. Where two rails cross, they close cleanly against each other, so a frame reads as a continuous black line the way a Mondrian should.

Your existing designs tidy themselves up. Open the Rails step and every rail you drew earlier re-seats onto the grid on its own. Anything you have marked locked or printed is left untouched — that geometry is yours, or already in plastic.

The black bars between your panels are now yours to place. Draw one exactly where you want it. Drag it along its line, or sideways onto a different one. Resize it by the handles or type an exact length. Delete the ones you don't want. A rail is an object with its own identity now, like a piece — so it stays where you put it however much you rearrange the board around it.

Lock it, or mark it printed. Locked pins a rail against every automatic adjustment. Printed freezes its peg pattern as physical: from then on it only slides in whole hole pitches, so the bar already sitting on your desk keeps landing in real holes. And you can switch individual pegs off a rail exactly the way you do on a piece — useful where a cable needs the space more than the rail needs the peg.

Or let the tool fill the gaps. One button lays rails into every gap that hasn't got one. It only ever adds: it never moves, resizes or deletes anything you placed. Draw half a line by hand, press it, and it completes the rest.

Your saved projects come across with their rails intact — lengths, locks and printed pegs included.

Asymmetric panels print and hang correctly. Half-width panels, panels whose pegs sit off-centre, anything that isn't the same left-to-right as right-to-left — these now come out of the exporter as exactly the part you designed, pegs landing on the real SKÅDIS grid. Whole-width panels were always fine; it is the interesting shapes that this opens up.

Look at the whole wall before you print it. The board review and the 3D scene export now build your wall the way you'll actually see it, fronts toward you rather than peg-side out — so a scene file opens ready to look at, and pieces sit left-to-right where you put them.

Flip model does exactly one thing. It mirrors your imported STL inside its own footprint. The pegs stay where they were and a hole you punched stays where you cut it, so a flip is now something you can reach for freely instead of a change that quietly moves the rest of the part.

Pieces read as pieces in the wall review. A panel carrying an imported model wears its own Mondrian colour across the whole body, rather than the model drawing flat grey against a coloured backplate. The SKÅDIS pegs stay neutral — they're board fittings, not part of your composition.

The back of a panel is now a flat field with a pad under each peg, and nothing else. Less plastic, less print time, and a part that sits properly against the board instead of rocking on material that was never holding anything.

Cables cross wherever they like. With the back cleared between the peg rows, a 100×50 panel on five pegs gives you five uninterrupted full-width channels to run cable through — no threading around blocks.

Small panels keep every support. Fewer than three pegs, or all of them in a single row, and the full support field stays: there isn't enough spread to hold the panel flat without it.

Clearer 3D while you work. The edit view x-rays just the pegs rather than the whole part, and ghost supports stay out of the preview.

Screwdriver / tool rack. A shelf off the panel face with a row of holes through it — screwdrivers, files, pliers, anything with a handle wider than its shaft. Hole count, diameter, spacing, depth and shelf thickness are all fields, so you can size it to the tools you actually own. It sits on the bottom edge of its piece, so the part never begins in mid-air on the bed.

Lidded parts bin. A box for small parts with a lid that prints as its own part alongside it.

A note if you're reopening an old project: a phone dock and a cable comb were briefly in the catalogue and have been withdrawn. A piece that used either opens set to no accessory, rather than silently turning into a different shape.

Three fields are gone: Up axis, Backplate face, and the plate's Mount face. They were meant to turn your imported model. What they actually turned was the SKÅDIS back plate — the same part came out facing four different ways depending on which one you picked, while the model barely moved. Backwards, and easy to fight for an hour without working out why.

Turn the model with Rotate X / Y / Z. That's the whole story now. The plate is welded to the piece on the board and does not move: it is always the piece's own footprint, pegs out the back, exactly like a panel with no model on it. The three rotation boxes reach every position the old fields could — and the ones in between, which they couldn't.

Fixed on the way: pegs and holes that missed. Exporting used to flip the plate left-for-right — harmless on the usual whole-width panels, where the peg pattern is the same either way, and wrong on everything else. A 1½-wide panel printed its peg 20 mm from the nearest real hole and simply would not hang. A hole punched off-centre came out at the opposite end of the plate. And a magnets panel put its wells on the side away from the container's magnets. All three were the same flip, and it is gone: what you export is now exactly the panel you designed.

Your existing designs come across with you. Every saved project, and every design recovered from a code or a bundle, has its old orientation folded into its rotation boxes the first time it loads — you'll see the angle written down in Rotate X/Y/Z where it used to be hidden in a dropdown. Most open exactly as they were. Some combinations of the old Up axis and face settings described an arrangement that simply cannot be reached by turning a model, only by mirroring it, and mirroring your STL is not something this tool will do to you — those come back with the model flipped left-for-right on the plate. If yours is one, Flip model puts it back.

Imported models now survive a reload, and the whole project — design plus every STL, STEP and 3MF it uses — exports and reloads as a single zip file.

Magnetic container. A new accessory that isn't welded to the panel. It prints as its own part and clips onto the front with four magnets, sitting over the panel's cable hole. Pull it off, rearrange the cables behind it, put it back — nothing stacked above it has to come down. The panel's face stays flat and unbroken: the magnets hide in wells bored from the back, behind a thin skin whose thickness you set.

Both parts in one click. Piece STL now hands you the panel and the container in a single file, side by side and never touching, with the container already lying floor-down for the bed. Multi-select and the print package do the same, so a magbox's two bodies always travel together.

You can see it while you design. The container is drawn in the 3D view, pulled off the panel front so the two read as separate parts instead of one lump — with a checkbox to hide it when you want the panel to yourself.

Bigger holes. A hole used to be refused the moment it met a peg, which on the 20 mm peg grid capped you around 30 mm. Now the hole wins: it cuts straight through and the pegs in its way are simply left off — up to a floor that keeps enough well-spread pegs for the panel to still hang. On a 120 × 80 panel that's ~30 mm to 116 mm wide.

Set up for the magnets you actually own. Diameter, thickness, the skin over them, how far in from the corners they sit, and the pocket wall around them are all fields. The pocket wall defaults to 4 mm — nine perimeters — and where a magnet genuinely won't fit, the tool refuses and names the size that would, rather than quietly mis-cutting a pair that then miss each other.

Fixed on the way. A cable hole on a magnets panel was never actually being cut — the panel came out solid. That had been true since the magnets accessory shipped.

Inside dimensions. For the box accessories (container, planter base, document sleeve, card holders) there's now an Inside dimensions checkbox. Tick it and the width/depth/height fields mean the cavity — just type the size of the thing you want to store and the box grows the material around it automatically: +2× wall on the width, +wall on the depth, +3 mm floor on the height, with the corner radius shifted to match. If the selected piece is too small, the editor rejects the value and explains what must change instead of silently shrinking the cavity. Turn it off to size the box from the outside, as before.

Hole tool. Open a piece in 3D, pick a shape, and click any face to punch a hole there. Not just the flat plate any more: a container's floor and its side walls too, so a cable can actually leave the box it's sitting in. Pick edge notch and the hole opens onto the nearest edge, which means a cable that already has a plug on it slides in sideways instead of being threaded through.

SKÅDIS slots in your own pieces. The same tool punches real SKÅDIS slots on the 40/20 mm grid. A through slot works on any panel. A functional slot leaves a board-thickness wall with open space behind it, so a peg drops in and slide-locks for real — one Mondrian panel can carry another, and IKEA's own hooks fit. That needs an 11.2 mm thick face; on a thinner panel the slot is cut straight through instead and Check design tells you so rather than letting it ship quietly.

Gridfinity shelf. A new accessory: an L-shaped shelf off the panel face whose top carries the real Gridfinity baseplate profile, so standard bins drop in and seat properly. It fits as many whole 42 mm units as the panel allows and centres them, leaving a flat rim — your composition never has to move to suit the grid.

Drop in a .3mf file — from Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, Fusion 360, or downloaded off Thingiverse/Printables/Makerworld — and it fits onto a piece or the SKÅDIS plate directly, same as STL and STEP. Reads the file's declared units so an import authored in inches or meters still lands at the right real-world size.

Drop in a .step or .stp file straight from any CAD tool and it fits onto a piece or the SKÅDIS plate directly — no more converting to STL by hand first. Every import is checked for a watertight, print-ready result before it's handed to you.

Print packages export P1S-optimized plates, match your design's colors to real Bambu filaments automatically, and group same-color pieces so you can move a whole shape as one.

Select several pieces at once and move them together. Route cables through divider rails. A dedicated mode builds wall-mount baseplates and clamps sized to any SKÅDIS board.

Imported STL models rotate on any axis to fit the mount. General cleanup pass ahead of the public launch.

Simple and Pro modes, a drag-and-drop accessory dock, a full 3D board review, and one-click Bambu print packages.

The black divider rails between pieces are now fully editable — draw, resize, lock, export on their own. Layouts can span several boards side by side. Undo/redo.

Fit any STL onto a piece. A backoffice page for managing incoming orders.

Parametric accessories (containers, key hooks, card holders, and more), one-click Mondrian layouts, cost quotes, and saved designs.

Lay out Mondrian-style pieces on a SKÅDIS board, mount them on real pegs, export print-ready parts.