Ivar vertical cable management

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I bought some IKEA Ivar shelves and am still figuring out the best way to organise them. Among the problems I have is cable management, and while there are a bunch of great solutions out there, I don't want to drill anything into the shelves or glue things on just yet, because I've already rearranged things a few times and am planning at least one more major reorganisation of the whole setup. For the cables that are running vertically, I could simply use hook-and-loop tape to tie 'em to the vertical pieces, but the problem I have is that the tape tends to slide up and down on the vertical pieces and I end up with the cables still flopping around a bit. So I designed this simple little doohicky to solve that problem. The pins fit into the Ivar verticals and hold it from going up or down; the cables fit in the center channel; and then hook-and-loop tape wraps around this widget, the cables, and the vertical support. The protruding sections at the top & bottom of the side supports give just enough structure to keep the hook-and-loop tape from being able to slide up and down, holding everything neatly in place for me. Supports are needed for the pins, but I've designed it to avoid the need for supports on the rest of the model. I've printed several of them that way and they've all come out great.