A gyro fidget spinner: three curved rings interlock around a centre post and whirl as one, so it prints in a single piece with no bearings and no assembly - just flick it and go. The rings are loose in their track out of the printer, which is the part that takes a few tries to get right and the reason this one gets measured before it ships.
A printable reading ruler with an integrated bookmark pointer. The pointer holds your line while you read and marks your place when the book closes - pick the length that suits your book.
A pencil holder wearing a puffer jacket: quilted panels all round, with a zip, a collar and sleeves running up the sides. It holds pens, pencils, markers, brushes or small tools, and it is sturdy enough to be knocked about a desk. About two hours of printing, and the quilted panels take filament colours well - solid winter colours, pastels, or something loud.
Design by Sitsero
A phone stand with a woodgrain surface that all but disappears behind the phone, so what you see is the screen standing on the desk rather than the stand holding it. A deep groove with a lipped front edge takes a phone upright for video calls or on its side for standBy and night-clock mode, and it fits anything from a small handset up to a Pro Max. Printed in PLA at 0.2 mm layers, 15% infill, no supports. It is designed for a wood-fill filament, which gives it the grain it is named for, though any matte colour prints just as well. The picture is a render of the printable model - real photographs of the print go up once the first one is made.
Design by M_LAB
A thin blade for digging the lint out of a phone's charging port, with a hook at one end and a flat scraper at the other. 34 mm long and a fraction of a gram, so it prints three at a time in a minute - one for the desk, one for the car, one to lose. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by eclien
A desk caddy printed in one piece: a raised back that stands a phone at a reading angle, a round well for pens, and a square tray for a watch, keys or a card, with a slot for a charging cable to pass through. It is 7.1" wide by 3.5" deep. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by Maker76
A flat key tag that holds the key by its bow rather than its ring, so it lies flat in a pocket and does not rattle. 2.2" long, about 1 g of plastic, printed in one piece. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by Katejot2017
A planetary gear set printed in place: six small gears mesh between a sun gear and a toothed ring, so turning any one of them turns all the rest. It is 2.5" across and prints as a single piece with nothing to snap together. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by HurtTree
A stackable glasses stand: a fin that the cradles slide onto, so the tower grows to whatever height the collection needs. The cradles come in three widths - 67, 77 and 87 mm - and each holds one pair nose-down by the bridge, which suits slim readers and deep sunglass frames alike. The plate prints a whole tower's worth of parts, 167 by 199 mm laid out as the designer arranges it. Designed by Badger Sound Forge and printed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-ND 4.0). Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by Badger Sound Forge
A glasses rack that lives on the wall: six cradles in a row on one 210 mm plate, 22 mm deep, so six pairs hang out of the way of a counter or a bedside table. It prints as one piece with nothing to assemble, and the arms take wire or plastic frames by the bridge. Designed by Matthew and printed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by Matthew
A modular glasses stand: a round 143 mm base with a spindle, a post that carries two long arms, and a cradle that stacks on the spindle, so two pairs or a shelf-full can be kept upright and out of the way. The arms take frames by the bridge and the base is heavy enough not to tip when one pair comes off. Designed by Rockthered and printed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by Rockthered
A can cap that opens the can as well: press it over the top of a standard 355 ml tab can and the drink is covered between sips, with the opener moulded into the same part. It prints in one piece in about forty minutes with no supports. Designed by BUD THE RETIRED PRINT GUY and printed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-ND 4.0), unchanged as published. Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by BUD THE RETIRED PRINT GUY
A lid that presses onto an open drinks can and slides shut, keeping dust, wasps and debris out of a beer or a soda between sips. Two fits are on offer: the standard can, whose lid measures 1.4 by 1.9 inches, and a wider one at 1.5 by 2.4 inches for a fatter 16 oz rim. Each prints as a lid and its sliding cover, and the standard lid also comes in the designer's looser-fitting version for a can that runs tight. Designed by Tiger prints, who remixed EcoDad's Printables lid - both makers are credited on this page - and printed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by Tiger prints
A pinecone geocache: a hollow cone with a screw-on cap and a loop at the top for a string or a length of wire, so it can hang in a branch. It prints in two pieces and neither needs supports. For a cache that lives outdoors, PETG keeps its shape in a hot car or a sunny hedge better than PLA. Designed by Soalar, who remixed it from Izak02's Pine cone cache - both makers are credited on this page. Printed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by Soalar
Two bands that print as one piece: the finned outer ring's ridge sits in the inner band's groove, so it is locked on but free to spin, with no bearings and nothing to assemble. The groove is a BALL RACE - a circular channel, with the ridge as the same circle held 0.4 mm off it - so the surfaces the two parts face each other across are vertical, which is what lets it print in place and still turn. The ring is 27 mm across and stands 7 mm, and the fins are trapezoids: wide where they join the sleeve, narrow at the tip, so nothing on it is a blade waiting to be knocked. It comes in three sizes, 16.5 mm (US 6), 18.2 mm (US 8) and 19.8 mm (US 10) across the finger hole, all at the same price, and the download is a 3MF with a plate for each, so you can print whichever fits - or all three. Print it with a brim and z-hop switched on: a small ring has a small footprint, and z-hop keeps a moving nozzle clear of what is already printed. The STL on its own is the smallest of the three. The photo is a render of the printable model - real photos of the print go up once the first batch comes off the printer.
A T-rex that holds your page: the dinosaur stands on the spine of the book with its legs either side, and the tail curls over the top. It prints flat in one piece, 3.6" tall. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by UncleFlappy
A phone stand that folds out of a keychain: the plate swings up and the phone leans back on it, and folded away it hangs on your keys. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by musielovsky
A hard hat that goes on a keyring - the dome, the brim and the little ridge down the middle, printed in one piece with a hole through the top. 1.5" across, and it works as a key tag or a desk charm. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by astavr
A small hook that sticks to a desk or a shelf edge with tape or a screw, for keys, headphones or a cable. 2.6" wide, printed in one piece with a flat back that sits flush. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by schiko
A little hand that clips onto the page and points at the exact line you stopped on - so a bookmark marks where you are, not just which page. 2.8" long, printed flat with the fingers already free. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by helder.bernardo
A bookmark shaped like an alligator, with the jaw clipping over the page and the body lying in the gutter - so it marks the page and the line at once. 3.9" long, printed as a body and a jaw. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by 3dprinting
A bookmark of a book with a coffee cup resting on the stack - flat, 3.7" tall, and thin enough that it does not mark the pages. Printed in one piece in about a minute. Shown as a render, not a photo.
Design by giessener
A flat floral bookmark: one thin spray of three openwork blossoms and leaves that lies between the pages and reads against the paper, marking the page without thickening the book. 5.9 x 4.4" overall and 1.6 mm thin, printed flat in one piece in a few minutes. The picture is a render of the printable model - real photographs of the print go up once the first one is made.
Design by Rankhispano
A pencil cup wrapped in overlapping scales, so it reads as a little pinecone on the desk while holding a fistful of coloured pencils. 3.3" across and 3.1" tall, printed in one piece. The picture is a render of the printable model - real photographs of the print go up once the first one is made.
Design by impresionao
A flat page marker with a fox carved in raised relief across its face - it slides over the page and the design reads against the paper. 9.4" long and 2.7 mm thin, printed flat in one piece. The picture is a render of the printable model - real photographs of the print go up once the first one is made.
Design by shadow.lune
A pen holder clad in raised dragon scales, hexagonal all the way round, with a smooth inner cup for pens, pencils or brushes. 3.1" across and 4" tall, printed in one piece. The picture is a render of the printable model - real photographs of the print go up once the first one is made.
Design by 3DWoosh
A kicking tee for rugby: a 120 mm base with a stem that stands the ball at the angle a kicker wants, so a conversion or a kick-off starts from the same place every time. 110 mm deep and 72 mm tall, printed as one piece with a wide foot that will not skate on wet grass. Designed by dhs and printed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by dhs
A golf tee with a ball sitting on its cup, printed as one piece - a desk trophy, a party favour or a cake pick as much as a tee. 2.3" tall, and barely a gram of plastic. The picture is a render of the printable model - real photographs of the print go up once the first one is made.
Design by LilÕJimbob
A reading guide that frames one line at a time so the page cannot swim: 5.1" x 1.4", 1.4 mm thick, light enough to leave in a book. Kept for kids learning to read, and for anyone whose attention slides down a full page. Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by fgiancarelli
A short sword bookmark with its own sheath: the blade marks your page and the scabbard clips back over it. 5.7" long, printed flat, the two pieces together weighing about 8 g. Shown as a render of the printable model, not a photograph.
Design by Forged in Filament
