Skadis screwdriver holder, customizable: any number and size of holes

A shelf for the IKEA Skadis pegboard that holds screwdrivers, files or punches upright in a grid of holes. Two L-shaped hooks go through the board's slots, 40 mm apart, and hang behind it. The default has 6 holes of 12 mm in 2 rows of 3, on a 70 x 58 x 37 mm part. Set the number of holes (1 to 12), holes per row, hole diameter (4 to 30 mm) and spacing, and use 2 to 4 hooks for a wider shelf.

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Parameters

Number of holes

Holes per row

Hole diametermm

Hole spacing (centre to centre, auto-increased if holes would touch)mm

Shelf thickness (hole depth)mm

Hooks per row

Hook rows (2 needs print supports)

Back plate height above hooksmm

Skadis board thicknessmm

Play behind boardmm

Hook width (slot is 5 mm)mm

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It prints standing on the shelf bottom with the back plate upright and no supports. The hooks are 4.6 mm wide for the 5 mm slots and leave 5.3 mm behind the plate for a 5 mm board, measured on the model below. The slot sizes come from third-party measurements, since IKEA publishes no drawing, so print one and try it on your board. The holes are exactly 12 mm on the model: printed holes come out a little small, so add 0.2 mm if your shafts are tight.

Parameters

Every slider in the viewer above, with the range the model accepts. The model rebuilds valid at both ends of each range.

Parameter	Range	Default	What it changes
Number of holes	1 to 12	6	How many tool holes the shelf has. Rows fill up starting at the back plate.
Holes per row	1 to 6	3	How many holes sit side by side in each row. The shelf gets wider or deeper to fit them.
Hole diameter	4 to 30 mm	12 mm	Diameter of each through hole. Match it to your tool shafts, plus about 0.2 mm since printed holes shrink.
Hole spacing (centre to centre, auto-increased if holes would touch)	16 to 40 mm	24 mm	Distance between hole centres. It grows by itself if the holes would come closer than a 4 mm wall.
Shelf thickness (hole depth)	6 to 25 mm	10 mm	Thickness of the shelf, which is how deep each tool sits in its hole.
Hooks per row	2 to 4	2	Number of hooks side by side, 40 mm apart like the Skadis slots. The shelf widens to carry them if needed.
Hook rows (2 needs print supports)	1 to 2	1	1 row of hooks, or 2 with the second row 40 mm higher. The second row needs print supports.
Back plate height above hooks	12 to 60 mm	25 mm	Height of the back plate above the hooks, which sets the overall height of the part.
Skadis board thickness	4.5 to 6 mm	5 mm	Thickness of your board. The gap behind the plate is this plus the play below.
Play behind board	0.1 to 0.8 mm	0.3 mm	Extra room behind the board so the hooks slide in. Raise it if the holder is hard to seat.
Hook width (slot is 5 mm)	4 to 4.9 mm	4.6 mm	Width of each hook tab across the 5 mm slot. Lower it if the tabs bind in your board.

Proof: measured on the model

What the design must satisfy and what our CAD engine measured on the model at the default values. Only measured values are shown here; nothing on this page has been printed by us yet.

Requirement	Wanted	Measured
Tool holes of 12 mm diameter	6 holes	6
Hook tab width in the 5 mm Skadis slot	4.6 mm (0.2 mm play per side)	4.6 mm
Distance between the two hooks, to match the slots	40 mm	40 mm
Gap between the back plate and the hook legs, for the 5 mm board	5.3 mm (5 mm board plus 0.3 mm play)	5.3 mm

valid solid, one body, 70 x 58.3 x 37 mm, fits a 256 x 256 x 256 mm printer; overhangs: 0.3% of surface would need support.

Print notes

Orientation: Standing on the shelf bottom with the back plate upright, as modelled. The hook legs also rest on the bed.
Supports: None with 1 row of hooks. With 2 rows, the upper hooks need supports.
Material: PLA for screwdrivers, PETG if the shelf carries heavy tools
Layer height: 0.2 mm
Settings: 4 walls, so the small hook tabs print nearly solid
Hardware: None
Time and filament: About 1 h 10 min and 25 g at the default size: a rough estimate from the model's volume and surface (PLA, 15% infill, about 1 mm of walls, 0.2 mm layers), not a slicer.

Print one holder and try it on your board before printing variants. The slot and board sizes are third-party figures, and Skadis boards vary by a few tenths of a millimetre.
To hang it, hold it about 10 mm above its final spot, push the hook legs through the slots, then lower it until the hooks rest on the bottom of the slots. Lift it the same way to take it off.
Each hook tab bridges 5.3 mm over the gap for the board. That is the only overhang on the part, and most printers bridge it without supports.
The holes go right through the shelf, so each tool hangs by its handle.

How it was designed

Designed with buildcad's AI agent, checked by the buildcad team. This is the request it started from and an edited account of what it did (more on how text to CAD works).

The request
An IKEA Skadis holder for screwdrivers: a shelf with 6 holes of 12 mm diameter, mounts in the Skadis slots.

1
It looked up the Skadis grid
The agent searched for the board's sizes and found only third-party sources, since IKEA publishes no drawing: slots 5 x 15 mm, 40 mm apart in a row and in a column, and a board 5 mm thick (plus or minus 0.2 mm). One maker had measured about 5.2 x 15.2 mm slots on real boards.
2
Checks, then the first build
It set out to check 6 holes of 12 mm, 4.6 mm wide hooks 40 mm apart and a 5.3 mm gap for the board. The first build was one valid body, 70 x 58.3 x 37 mm, with six 12 mm holes. Probes across the hooks found tabs from 2.7 to 7.3 mm (4.6 mm wide) and 40 mm apart.
3
The slider sweep broke it
Rebuilding every slider extreme, the agent found that a 30 mm hole diameter cut the holder into 3 bodies: at 24 mm spacing the holes overlapped. It made the spacing grow to at least the hole diameter plus a 4 mm wall.
4
All 20 extremes clean
The next sweep rebuilt all 20 slider extremes as one valid body each, and the default part did not change.
5
What it left to the maker
Its reply says the holder was not test-printed and asks for a fit test of one hook first. It also notes the second hook row needs supports and that 12.2 mm holes help if the shafts are tight.

One run of the agent: 3 min 30 s, about $0.44 of model time at list price (claude-sonnet-5-5). The model code behind this page is the code it wrote, unchanged.

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