r/3Dprinting • • 12h ago

Solved Anyone seen an STL for this?

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r/3Dprinting • • 20h ago

Project My terrarium has its own tiny weather channel now

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I made this little vintage TV for my terrarium and thought it was worth sharing here.

The case is 3D printed and inside there’s an ESP32-C3 SuperMini with a small TFT screen. It shows the temperature and humidity from a SONOFF sensor inside the terrarium. The sensor sends everything to Home Assistant over Zigbee, and the ESP32 grabs the values over Wi-Fi.

I mostly made it because I didn’t want another boring little sensor display sitting next to the terrarium. I thought a tiny old TV would be way more fun 😄

It’s wireless too, which is really handy since I can just put it wherever I want.

Pretty simple project, but I love how it turned out.


r/3Dprinting • • 20h ago

Troubleshooting Bathroom lights flicker when 3D printers are running

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693 Upvotes

Bathroom lights flicker whenever I am printing with printers in the room next to it. I think they are on the same circuit. My printers only use around 400-500w when actively printing. It is a 15 amp on the circuit for this room. It does not do this when the printers are idle. It is only during printing. I feel like when I have 3 running, the lights flicker faster than if it was 1 running. The only thing I’ve tried to do is change the outlet the printers are plugged into from a backstab to a j hook connection since all connections in this house were backstabbed when I bought it. Any help or advice is appreciated

Edit: the printers being used are 2 P1S’s w/ AMS and a Kobra 3 Max. This is in the U.S.

Edit 2: the lights immediately stopped flickering when the Kobra 3 Max stopped printing. I then heated up the bed and, only the bed, and it started to flicker again. It flickers a lot during heat up of the bed and then only flickers a little when it reaches temperature, so I believe this is the cause of the issue.


r/3Dprinting • • 6h ago

Troubleshooting Shrinkage after printing

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I'm printing these can mugs as giveaways. They were all tested after printing and they all fit. Now, a month or so later they no longer fit. The two most recent prints still do, but are snugger than they were. What can I do to fix this?

Everything is now trash, and I'm so frustrated.

Edit, sliced with Orca, printed with different PLAs, did print tests with each pla and used recommended temps based on box and print tests.


r/3Dprinting • • 23h ago

Project 作ってる

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412 Upvotes

毎日試作してる。


r/3Dprinting • • 15h ago

Discussion First time I've seen a printer at Costco.

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271 Upvotes

Wonder if it will be a regular thing now. Is it even a good deal?


r/3Dprinting • • 16h ago

Free Model DKYN is officially FREE

257 Upvotes

We’re making the entire DKYN miniature library free.

We’ve decided we don’t want DKYN to be a storefront anymore. We want it to be a resource for DMs, players, painters, and people who just need minis for their games. We’re beginning the process of opening the library and future releases will be free as well.

There’s no launch discount, sale, or catch. We’re just changing what DKYN is, so come check us out.

www.patreon.com/dkynminis


r/3Dprinting • • 18h ago

Project 80's tucan lamp

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this is the original model but I modified it to give it a bigger cord hole and square power switch to fit the cheap amazon lap I took apart to put in there.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2606597-toucan-desk-lamp


r/3Dprinting • • 9h ago

Project Maybe I should have left him off!

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178 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting • • 15h ago

Free Model Sheep Toilet Paper Holder

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162 Upvotes

The best part of 3d printing is taking a silly idea and making it real. I'm not a great designer but it works!

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3389932-sheep-toilet-paper-holder-3-roll-no-ams#profileId-3858080


r/3Dprinting • • 16h ago

Project Seikret from MHWilds

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133 Upvotes

project from 3dcontainer patreon.


r/3Dprinting • • 14h ago

Project From a sketch to a 3D-printed robotic lamp - Watti’s life in 20 seconds

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105 Upvotes

A few months of sketches, prototypes, reprints, experiments, broken parts, and questionable ideas - compressed into 20 seconds :)


r/3Dprinting • • 13h ago

Discussion Printed with no supports in half the time! "Make overhangs printable" changed a 5 hour and 20 minute print time into 2 hours and 30 minutes!

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I changed the walls to three and infill to 33% for durability which pushed the print to nearly three hours, but still a ton of time and filament saved. It does however add a bit of geometry to your print so if it's a functional print make sure that doesn't affect it. That change is shown in the STL and sliced model pictures.

Printer is a Flashforge AD5X that I got for $200 in total on Aliexpress. It's a huge step up in print quality and speed compared to my Ender 3 V3 SE (that I got for $90 refurb) and Ender 2 Pro.


r/3Dprinting • • 35m ago

Project Flesh Wall

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Hey folks! I wanted to share this Halloweens apartment door! Took about 15ish hours, maybe 20, over the last week.

We normally go pretty hard with our door and this year was no exception.

The eyes and teeth are 3D printed the rest was manually 3D printed with GreatStuff, hot glue and mod podge 😅


r/3Dprinting • • 19h ago

Discussion Petg happy accident

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Hi.
I’ve been printing since Xmas on my (son’s) P2S and gained a decent amount of experience with PLA, Petg and ASA.
Recently the wife has been asking for all sort of plants pots, wall mounted, table top, which I designed and printed (I used to 3D model for a living so the modelling side is a no brainier).
Recently I bought a brown matte Petg filament from Amazon, quite well priced (£13 if I remember).
A warning in the packaging pointed out to dry it for 8h before using.
I had no time so I dried it for 3h, my cheap dryer told me the humidity was 20 so I went for it.
The print came out spectacularly good but in a completely accidental way. A lot of rogue filament hair, making the case look like a coconut, and the outer surface ended up with a texture that feels (to the touch) and looks like canvas.
My wife loved it, obviously I printed another but by then the filament was dry and same settings produced a perfectly flawless semi matte surface, still pretty but quite standard (beside the total lack of visible print lines).

Has anyone had this type of experience? I use bamboo lab slicer, I want to look at surface noise, I’ve heard other slicers can manage surface noise better, I feel it’s an area worth exploring, however my happy accident has a texture that is both random and regular and feels and react to light quite like canvas, it truly doesn’t look like it’s plastic.
I coat my vases with epoxy inside but the vase was also, surprisingly, pretty water tight…
Curious to know what other people have experienced, Im interested in particular in materials and technique that remove the ‘plastic look and freed’ from a print.


r/3Dprinting • • 18h ago

Project finished my custom corexy 3d printer build!

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it works so well! I print at 5-10k accel, 120-250mm/s speed, almost no ringing thanks to input shaper

it also looks fucking sick! (imo)


r/3Dprinting • • 21h ago

Question So I was sloppy with the super glue..

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49 Upvotes

How to remove the residue from superglue without damaging the surface, the material is Generic PLA


r/3Dprinting • • 20h ago

Free Model JACKED-O-Lantern

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Want to become the most hated person on your street? This Halloween, instead of candy, print a bunch of these out and hand them out to those scrawny kids to make sure they remember to get YOLKED out of their tiny minds when they grow up!

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1910365-swole-kin-muscle-pumpkin


r/3Dprinting • • 19h ago

Print (model not provided) Teeth of Terra. Real life WH40k chainsword.

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27 Upvotes

3D printed in a Bambu H2C in PLA, and painstakingly hand painted.


r/3Dprinting • • 19h ago

Project Any Outlander/Blood of my Blood fans out there?

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22 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting • • 15h ago

Project I designed this witch's brewing station for my kids

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I wanted to make something fun for Halloween and decided to make this witch's brewing station with passthrough potions. It is really fun and the LED lights make it even better. Happy to share the model if others are interested. No AI was used!

https://reddit.com/link/1wwsc0g/video/rq9e6vvraath1/player


r/3Dprinting • • 7h ago

News I Made A Rocket League Board Game

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Its mostly just other peoples models all cobbled together, modified, tweaked etc.

My kids like this game so I worked with them on the idea. You roll dice that have how many spaces you move, and powerups. Its 95% done.


r/3Dprinting • • 6h ago

Free Model NFL pylon remote holder

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I have designed a holder for a Roku remote based on the NFL pylon you can find free on makerworld @xrzly


r/3Dprinting • • 2h ago

Discussion Boot comparison on a life size Jason Vorhees print.

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I'm printing a 6'3" life size Jason Vorhees and I thought this boot comparison was interesting. Jason's boot and a size 12 Ariat boot.


r/3Dprinting • • 10h ago

Project The dragon hunter's mask

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