No affiliation or direct experience, just passing on the info.
Forgive me, but what purpose does this serve?
Who takes pics of their tools?
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Aha, my bad. I don’t click on random sites that have a low trust rating.
My organization is well established. It’s called “rummage”… 
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You don’t trust me by now? 
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Cool concept!
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No offense intended. I’ve worked in IT security since the 90’s, and am a tad cautious.
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having made tool inserts for many drawers, this looks like a huge time saver. I’ll definitely give it a try!
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Ahh I wish my space looked like this! 
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I need one to put them away for me! 
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We are brethren.
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When I worked on aircraft we were required to have tools in drawer inserts. It made sure you weren’t dumb enough to accidentally leave a tool in an engine or cockpit. But those days are long gone. I don’t organize my tools beyond putting like types together.
That said, I really could have used the program to make foam inserts for my telescope parts and eyepieces. It was a pain to do it trial and error. A single glass eyepiece might be $500 and definitely needs cushioning for transport. In addition, nothing ruins your day like finding out you left an expensive part on a rural mountain top the night before while observing. Usually carry a dozen or so eyepieces that are constantly coming in and out of my pelican style cases and coat pockets during the night. A quick look at the end of the night assures me that I haven’t laid one down somewhere.
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If anyone tries this I’d be interested to know what you thought of the program.
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They really bury the lede. It was a lot of work to figure out what the point of all this was, I had to watch a video and skip to very nearly the end before I could see a piece of foam being laser cut.
Yes, every piece. You could inventory your box at a glance. On top of that, each piece was engraved with the squadron and toolbox number. When the pilot went inverted and he could pick a socket off of the canopy he knew exactly who to have a “conversation” with.
If a screw, part, or tool was dropped in the cockpit, that bird was down until it was recovered.
When I was setting up my own box 40 years ago I started with that system;
But over the years that has devolved into the “rummage” layered method as evidenced in the previous picture, since a $60,000,000 aircraft or someone’s life isn’t at risk. Live long enough, and it looks like @geek2nurse’s father’s garage - where he was the only one who could find anything in there.
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Sadly this is one of those videos that if you have the sound on it’s almost the first thing they say, but I almost never have the sound on!
They need a marketing manager.
Here are some of the inserts I made the hard way (manual tracing). After years of digging through drawers looking for tools, (only to find it wasn’t in the drawer after all… I left it out somewhere in the shop) It is a game changer having organized drawers.
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They have an interesting approach. I believe you can save work in the “cloud”. I suppose you could have a layout with your tools, and after some time you bought more you could load the original and add the new tools to the layout.
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