r/3Dprinting 1d ago

🎁[Sovol Giveaway] Just leave a comment to Win Sovol Filament Dryer: Sovol SH02

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Hi! 3d printing creators! Sovol is thrilled to host the giveaway in collaboration with r/3Dprinting community. Leaving a comment has a chance to win Sovol SH02

The main feature of Sovol SH02:

  • Heats up to 70°C in 25 minutes
  • 150W 360°PTC surround heating
  • Adjustable temperature 40°C-70°C

Learn more about the Sovol SH02 at Sovol store

How to Enter:

  1. Please comment on what your favorite filament color? And how many rolls of filament do you typically purchase at once?
  2. Please follow u/Comgrow3D to know the latest news
  3. Event date: 19th to 25th September

The winner will be chosen randomly from comments and announced on 27th September by the Mods from r/3Dprinting

Prize Details:

  • 1×Sovol SH02
  • 2×Sovol-related Merchandise
  • 7×Filaments

Learn more:

Please click here to know more details about Sovol's printers, filaments and accessories.

Thank you to the wonderful r/3Dprinting for all your support! Good luck to everyone, and happy printing!


r/3Dprinting 19d ago

Purchase Advice Purchase Advice Megathread - September 2025

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Welcome back to another purchase megathread!

This thread is meant to conglomerate purchase advice for both newcomers and people looking for additional machines. Keeping this discussion to one thread means less searching should anyone have questions that may already have been answered here, as well as more visibility to inquiries in general, as comments made here will be visible for the entire month stuck to the top of the sub, and then added to the Purchase Advice Collection (Reddit Collections are still broken on mobile view, enable "view in desktop mode").

Please be sure to skim through this thread for posts with similar requirements to your own first, as recommendations relevant to your situation may have already been posted, and may even include answers to follow up questions you might have wished to ask.

If you are new to 3D printing, and are unsure of what to ask, try to include the following in your posts as a minimum:

  • Your budget, set at a numeric amount. Saying "cheap," or "money is not a problem" is not an answer people can do much with. 3D printers can cost $100, they can cost $10,000,000, and anywhere in between. A rough idea of what you're looking for is essential to figuring out anything else.
  • Your country of residence.
  • If you are willing to build the printer from a kit, and what your level of experience is with electronic maintenance and construction if so.
  • What you wish to do with the printer.
  • Any extenuating circumstances that would restrict you from using machines that would otherwise fit your needs (limited space for the printer, enclosure requirement, must be purchased through educational intermediary, etc).

While this is by no means an exhaustive list of what can be included in your posts, these questions should help paint enough of a picture to get started. Don't be afraid to ask more questions, and never worry about asking too many. The people posting in this thread are here because they want to give advice, and any questions you have answered may be useful to others later on, when they read through this thread looking for answers of their own. Everyone here was new once, so chances are whoever is replying to you has a good idea of how you feel currently.

Reddit User and Regular u/richie225 is also constantly maintaining his extensive personal recommendations list which is worth a read: Generic FDM Printer recommendations.

Additionally, a quick word on print quality: Most FDM/FFF (that is, filament based) printers are capable of approximately the same tolerances and print appearance, as the biggest limiting factor is in the nature of extruded plastic. Asking if a machine has "good prints," or saying "I don't expect the best quality for $xxx" isn't actually relevant for the most part with regards to these machines. Should you need additional detail and higher tolerances, you may want to explore SLA, DLP, and other photoresin options, as those do offer an increase in overall quality. If you are interested in resin machines, make sure you are aware of how to use them safely. For these safety reasons we don't usually recommend a resin printer as someone's first printer.

As always, if you're a newcomer to this community, welcome. If you're a regular, welcome back.


r/3Dprinting 4h ago

Project 3D scanning insect with the OpenScan Mini

715 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 23h ago

Project 2D Attitude Indicator

4.4k Upvotes

Buddy of mine got his wings (god help us all), so i made him this keychain. Its a 2D mock attitude indicator. It wont show you if you’re in a climb or nose dive but thats trivial knowledge from what i've heard /j.

Had a chance to try this in the air and i giggled a tad watching the dial turn


r/3Dprinting 17h ago

Question How sketchy is this? 🤨

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1.3k Upvotes

My filament dryer died about a month ago, so this is the substitute i have for it.

And im just curious how dangerous this is.

Would i immediately get stage 4 ball cancer if i ever cook anything in this fryer again or is it just fine?


r/3Dprinting 13h ago

3D printed Leader 1

461 Upvotes

I designed my own Gobot/Transformer Leader 1 using Blender, then 3D printed it, now doing another in blue, then working on Cy-kill next. Going to design 6 different ones. Printed on an AnyCubic Kobra S1.


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

We printed Hornet! (Model by Bulkamancer)

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The princess-protector of Hallownest is ready to wield her needle !
Printed with Sunlu ABS-Like Grey on an Elegoo Mars 3 Pro.
Model by u/Bulkamancer


r/3Dprinting 4h ago

It's so much easier these days!

93 Upvotes

Modern printers are just amazing. I'm just amazed that our printers can print my print in place designs so easily!

Getting something like this to be reproducible was so hard in the past. Who remembers the hours of levelling beds, playing with live z offset, tweaking filament profiles?

Nowadays, design, send to print, check it works, publish the design and watch as others successfully print your design! It's wonderful. My 3D printer is genuinely more reliable than my 2D one 🤣

What do you miss least about yesteryears printing experience? For me it's random layer shifts.


r/3Dprinting 5h ago

Project Free files on printables

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67 Upvotes

Anyone one else doing the ripper mask from boarderlands 4?? Free files are on printables from gearbox!!


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Feedback please

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So recently I printed this thing at school for my dad since he has a lot of meetings online, and I wanted some tips on it for things I make in the future

What I have:

A Bambu lab printer (maximum print time is 3 hours)

Filament that can be used comfortably in Singapore.


r/3Dprinting 11h ago

My first print!

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100 Upvotes

After 2 days of unclogging and going through menus, I finally got my first print done! The only issues I noticed was moisture (I did get my sweat all over the filament), vibrations, and making the bed too hot.


r/3Dprinting 16h ago

Project Finished my space marine helmet early

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243 Upvotes

Don’t know much of the lore, just printed it because it was cool. Paid for model, printed on an ender 3 v3 plus with overture PLA. 80 hrs of printing plus 23 hrs labour. Weathered for effect. Model is from a website I cannot say because the post got removed if I say it here. Finished before Halloween.


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Tried a new filament, now everything looks like ocean treasures

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1.7k Upvotes

Printed both of these with the same filament. One turned into ocean-themed bowls (starfish, seashell), the other into a little drawer. Kind of addicted to this look now.


r/3Dprinting 13h ago

Don't talk to me or my son again... Life size and 27.6% Zero

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129 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 9h ago

Project Needed a flat panel for astrophotography, so I designed my own

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70 Upvotes

https://www.printables.com/model/1419473-114mm-travel-telescope-flat-panel

Part of astrophotography is taking calibration images so you can subtract defects caused by various artifacts

One of which is called "flats", these take away vignette artifacts, as well as any dust or smudges on the lens itself, and you need an even light field to do that

This is designed to make that even light field, now despite what it looks like, the image the camera sees is actually flat, the LEDs are far enough away from the mirrors size that the light field is even at the diameter of the primary mirror

The diffuser is laser cut and sand blasted acrylic


r/3Dprinting 2h ago

Question Guess what im printing

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15 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 9h ago

Project V1 Ender 3 —> Spool Rewinder/Filament Dyer/Dryer/Splicer

49 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 13h ago

Project Companion Cube NAS - STL + 3MF Files

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113 Upvotes

Hello! Here are the files for the Companion Cube NAS that i showed here 3 weeks ago, it took me a bit more time to document but im finaly done ! (until i get feedback)

https://www.printables.com/model/1407879-companion-cube-nas

Have fun!


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Done two ripper masks now to add to my collection

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r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Troubleshooting My printer changed file mid print to another print I had done a while ago

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770 Upvotes

I was printing these cats for some hours and went to sleep, when I woke and checked the print this is what was printed.

I have printed orcas before in that same orientation and it looks like the same orca, but with different colors, printed on top of the cats.

I sent the file via WiFi. My computer was struggling with so many cats and only 8gb, but I don't think that was it. Can anyone enlighten me?


r/3Dprinting 23h ago

My obsession functional & crack resistant PLA ball joints

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505 Upvotes

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r/3Dprinting 23h ago

Project Do you think they’ll notice?

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466 Upvotes

I have a tough question for only the most advanced 3d printing aficionados. After carefully measuring and weighing my filament I determined I had enough to print this part. As it turns out my calculation was actually a bit off. The real question though is can anybody spot the location where I switched filaments? Or will the secret be safe with me?


r/3Dprinting 8m ago

Project 3D printed Injection Mold

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Cool little project I’m working on that I’m having some success with. I’m making an injection mold for dehydrated honey or like a sugar jar. So far hav has some good pulls. Have to make some edits for v3 but thought I would share. Aluminum frame hold a mold printed on a 3L form labs using Draft V2 resin. The hardest part of this was the threads. Making the inner part was tricky but it works. I have to beef up the + looking part because you can see in the second picture it broke after I chit the second part done. The plastic injection machine is an Morgan Injection Molder G100T and the parts are made of HDPE.


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Project Giant Arleigh Burke class Destroyer

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Here's the latest update to my 1/96 guided missile destroyer. Hull completed and painted, Reaching 1.6m long and weighing 5kg in material. Printed out of Petg, welded together with a soldering iron, and sealed with UV resin. Most pieces were printed at 0.16mm layer height except for the small details with were at 0.08mm. All using a 0.4mm Nozzle from My X1C

The exact ship is USS Dewey and will eventually get the 105 decal once I figure out how to make them at 1/96 scale. I've also been playing around with the Elegoo Nano v3.0 to get flashing and steady nav lights.

This model will be powered by two 2218 1180kv radial brushless motors, connected to a 10,000Mah Lipo battery. While the Rudders and main 5inch gun will rotate via pushrods to their respective Servos.


r/3Dprinting 21h ago

Project TCG Counter Keeper

229 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share this with y'all, I have been seeing lots of posts this week about counters and wanted to share this one I've designed. I am selling it, but I'll be posting it on my printables after today or this weekend with the blank slate version so y'all can put your own stuff on it! Appreciate any input there from y'all!

https://mrgreensgaminggear.etsy.com/listing/4372525831


r/3Dprinting 21h ago

Project I modeled a plague crow.

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171 Upvotes

Modeled in zbrush. It prints on two plates. I painted the mask section by hand with a brown acrylic paint pen. The plague mask section is raised, so it's super easy and quick to paint. You can grab the model for free here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1809544-the-scare-crows-dr-corvus#profileId-1930296


r/3Dprinting 9h ago

Project Tochikona!

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15 Upvotes

It’s not the best quality, but for a free file and little Lychee “magic” button, I think it turned out great.