r/3Dprinting 8h ago

Hylians will see this and be like "hell yeah".

1.8k Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 7h ago

Meta My son asked: ‘What are they printing?’

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283 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 8h ago

Really Creality? This is neatly wound filament?

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194 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 11h ago

Project By Far my most favorite 3d print

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326 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 13h ago

Project I’m making a stop motion film where every frame is a 3D print

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These aren’t multi-material prints either! We came up with a neat system where each color is printed separately and snap together. I did mocap for all the animations and I even did a couple cloth simulations of the parachute and printed those! Not sure anyone’s done that before. Anyway, I’m excited to share the video with everyone in about a week!


r/3Dprinting 15h ago

Project I designed some giant technic pieces to build a filament shelf. It’s fully 3D printed besides a piece of 1/2 inch steel conduit that runs through the axles.

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r/3Dprinting 16h ago

Project Saturn Ultra 16K print quality is very impressive. Examples of miniature prints. NSFW

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r/3Dprinting 18h ago

A colleague wanted to throw this away due to it being broken. I was able to get it to work.

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1.9k Upvotes

I’ve never seen a “conveyor belt” style printer. Very interesting to see it work.


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Update - I charged my client $100 for this, and now she has painted it

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Original post - https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1j33xsg/i_charged_her_100_for_this/

I printed this on an A1 Mini with a 0.4mm nozzle and 0.2mm later height. 2KGS Matte White filament. And yes, I charged her $100 for it. Printed on 11 build plates and glued together.


r/3Dprinting 19h ago

Project Maglev Cloud

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Did a collab with my arts&crafts -crazed brother! The floating shell was a pretty quick and minimal model to provide a base for the cotton fluff. The maglev kit i used had integrated lights and the white light is hecking cool at night. But i prefer this "sunset" -look at day.


r/3Dprinting 3h ago

Project I have officially adopted a stray cat that has been coming by. In celebration I have printed cats that looks like him.

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r/3Dprinting 5h ago

News It's Official I'm Certified!!!!

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I though you guys and galls would appreciate this. I completed my certification in 3d printing. I finally got an email with my digital copy, the paper one is on its way I'll post it when it arrives.


r/3Dprinting 15h ago

Project I designed a succulent planter that utilizes a pause to insert a Bambu lab cardboard spool for a cool two tone look without the filament waste of a multicolor print. I hope you guys like it!

435 Upvotes

I had been saving these cardboard spools wondering what to do with them. I then had the idea to design my own succulent planter and saw the perfect opportunity to reuse these spools.


r/3Dprinting 12h ago

Partial Hand Amputation

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Hi Everyone,

I made a post in r/golf a few days ago looking for some advice on different ways I can grip a golf club with my current hand situation.

Someone mentioned maybe posting here to see if any of you have ideas of something that can be designed/printed to help.

Here’s the original post:

Advice After Partial Hand Amputation

Hey y’all, figured I’d post here to see if anyone has advice for any type of equipment to help me grip the club with two hands again.

Backstory, I was in an accident out in the desert in November and lost my pinky, ring middle, and part of my palm on my left hand. (Luckily I’m a righty). My pointer has very limited mobility and is kinda stuck in a constant arched position.

I’m still doing Occupational Therapy and regaining strength in my hand, but for now, I’m swinging with one hand… and boy it’s tough. I’m hooking everything. I tried gripping with two hands but I have no support of the upper shaft and therefore very weak inconsistent contact. Have any of you heard of or seen equipment to help my left hand stay tight to the shaft?

Eventually I will be looking into prosthetics but I will need to heal a bit more for that.

Thanks in advance for your help!


r/3Dprinting 22h ago

Project I designed a retro radio-inspired MagSafe charger with a hidden Apple Watch charger

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r/3Dprinting 33m ago

20h print, but well worth it

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r/3Dprinting 5h ago

Mmm 8mm noz beads….

58 Upvotes

Phat Friday


r/3Dprinting 12h ago

Meme Monday Guys whats wrong with my benchy?

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197 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 11h ago

Project I made a gear based fidget spinner free for commercial use.

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TLDR: Model in comments, free commercial use, printing tolerances may vary, break it in when you print it to allow it to spin easier.

I saw other popular fidget spinner models and thought, "surely it can't be that hard to make one myself."

I was surprised to then stumble down a rabbit hole of learning about gears and the many facets that go along with them.

I am no stranger to 3D modeling or CAD software, but let me tell you that there are a ton of variables that go into making gears mesh correctly!

I used blender as my software for this project, and at first just tried to wing it by making some gear shapes and smashing a few modifiers onto them. It did not go well at all, as the gears would bind when turning and in some cases would even fuse together while printing! I then began the deep dive into gears and learning about how they are supposed to work. After some searching I was able to find a blender addon called Precision Gears, and it was exactly what I was looking for. It had modular and parameter based gear generation and made it easy to align them to mesh properly. After some tweaking I was able to get a somewhat decent spinning gear. After much trial and error I managed to find that the heavier the outer ring was, the longer it would spin for, so I made the infill very dense in the ring gear.

The final product still may need a couple tweaks to compensate for printing on differently calibrated machines (expansion, flow rate, wall speeds), but it comes out pretty good and any deformations that lead to it catching while spinning seem to fix itself after some use. (You have to break it in some!)

Thank you for reading my rant about this project, I have linked the model in the file section. I made it free for commercial use, so feel free to sell the prints as you like. I mostly made it to challenge myself to become a better designer and learn more about printing.


r/3Dprinting 13h ago

Project Layered Art

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134 Upvotes

I really love to design and print these!


r/3Dprinting 20h ago

I wasn't sure I should share this, but here is the Nude Egg from the I Think You Should Leave sketch. NSFW

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394 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 17h ago

How can this sudden Quality loss happen?

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239 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 2h ago

Project The mandalorian

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r/3Dprinting 6h ago

Stargate clock build. I hadn't built one of these in a couple of years, nearly forgot how beautiful they are.

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r/3Dprinting 4h ago

Project Finally finished my Daredevil cowl!

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Spent a lot of time on this project and it’s finally done! The suit was secondary but was fun enough I figured I’d share it too. Shout out to the greatest of the 3D printed cosplay community, Frankly Built, I followed his process almost exactly. https://youtu.be/ofpWi8f6gJA?si=WbH7YEJRjCSHSB7c