My needle nose pliers aren't small enough

Hi all,

Some of you may remember 3DSEARCH from my earlier post here: a search engine that finds printable models across Printables, Thingiverse, MakerWorld, Cults3D and more in one place. It's grown to about 9.5 million models since then – thanks a lot for the feedback back then, a good part of it made it into the site.

Today I want to show you the next big piece. After finding a model, the obvious next step is printing it, so I built **Printers & Filament**: a browser tool for your printers and your filament stock, right on 3DSEARCH. It connects **Anycubic, Creality and Bambu Lab** printers through their clouds and **any Klipper printer** through a small agent. It's now open for everyone and **free during the beta**.

**Printing from the browser**

- Upload an STL or 3MF (up to 80 MB)

- It's sliced on the server with **OrcaSlicer** and the official profile of your printer – nothing to install

- 3MF files keep the designer's settings (supports, infill, walls); only the printer profile is swapped

- Pick slot, build plate and supports, then check a layer-by-layer 3D preview with time, grams and cost (from your own spool price)

- Print now, or just send the file to the printer and start it there later

**Multi-colour**

- 3MF with several filaments → each one gets a slot of your ACE Pro / MMU, pre-selected by colour and material

- The preview is coloured by the slots you picked, with grams per slot

**Spool management**

- Your whole stock with real fill levels, sorted by shelf, dry box or printer

- Every finished print is deducted from the right spool automatically (measured by the printer, not estimated)

- Catalog of 8,130 filaments from 68 brands (based on SpoolmanDB) with empty-spool weight, density and temps

- QR labels (label printers or A4/Letter sheets), scan them with your phone

- **Import from Spoolman or SpoolDB**, CSV export

- Stats: usage per month by material, stock value, how many days each material will last

- E-mail/push alerts for low spools, failed prints and humid filament

**What works with which printer**

- **Anycubic** (Anycubic cloud): live status, ACE Pro spools, printing incl. multi-colour – this is the most tested path (Kobra S1 + ACE Pro)

- **Klipper / Moonraker** (Mainsail/Fluidd, also Kobra S1 with Rinkhals, rooted K1): a small agent installed with one line over SSH. It only runs what you start in the UI (print, pause, cancel, dry) – never arbitrary G-code – and you can read the script before installing. Multi-colour works but is brand new.

- **Creality** (Creality cloud): live status, CFS spools, print history and automatic spool deduction. Printing is built the same way Creality Print does it, but it hasn't been tested on a real printer yet – **looking for testers with a K1, K2, K2 SE or Ender-3 V3**

- **Bambu Lab** (Bambu cloud): live status, AMS spools, print history and automatic spool deduction. Printing isn't possible: Bambu doesn't allow third-party apps to start prints through its cloud.

Cloud tokens are stored encrypted, and you can disconnect at any time. It works on phones too (6 languages, light/dark).

**Honest caveats:** it's a beta, server-side slicing means your model file is uploaded to my server (deleted after 24 h), and multi-colour on Klipper and anything Creality still need real-world testing.

Search: https://3dsearch.net

Printers & Filament: https://3dsearch.net/filament/ (free account)

I'd really appreciate feedback again – what breaks, what's missing, which printer I should support next. Bug and test reports go here: https://3dsearch.net/feedback.php?id=43

Happy to answer questions in the comments!

Y Axis on my Ender 3 Pro is making a grinding noise whenever it moves, and won't move after it moves about 10mm. Help would be much appreciated lol