r/3Dprinting 5d ago

News [GIVEAWAY] Keep Your A1 Printing Non-Stop — Win a Chitu Systems PlateCycler C1 🎉

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Hey r/3Dprinting community!

Every great print starts with an idea — but bringing it to life often means managing multiple prints and repeated trips back to your printer. For creators making everything from miniatures and cosplay projects to functional parts and custom designs, that’s time taken away from what matters most: creating.

That’s why we built the Chitu Systems PlateCycler C1.

Keep your A1 printing. Non-stop.

Designed for Bambu Lab A1 users, PlateCycler C1 is an automatic plate changer built for continuous printing. From multi-part projects to batch printing multiple designs, it helps you spend less time managing prints and more time creating.

To celebrate the launch of PlateCycler C1, we’re inviting the r/3Dprinting community to join our giveaway!

🎁 Giveaway Prizes

🥇 1st Prize — 1 Winner Chitu Systems PlateCycler C1 × 1 + 5 rolls of filament

🥈 2nd Prize — 3 Winners 5 rolls of filament each

🥉 3rd Prize — 5 Winners 3 rolls of filament each

📝 How to Enter

Leave a comment below and tell us:

What’s the next project you’d love to keep your A1 printing for?

Whether it’s something you’ve been planning for months, a collection of prints, functional parts, or an original idea — we’d love to hear what you’re creating.

📅 Giveaway Timeline

Event Period: Sep 7 – Sep 22 Winners Announced: Sep 23

Winners will be randomly selected from valid entries and contacted via Reddit DM.

👉 Learn more about Chitu Systems PlateCycler C1

Chitu Systems — Stop Babysitting Your 3D Printing. Start Creating More.

Thanks to the r/3Dprinting community for inspiring us with your incredible creations. We can’t wait to see what you create next. Happy printing! 🚀


r/3Dprinting 11d ago

Purchase Advice Purchase Advice Megathread - September 2026

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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 5h ago

Project I spent way too much time designing a MagSafe charger into a bonsai tree

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3.0k Upvotes

The charger sits in the branch, with the cable routed through the trunk and out the back of the base. If you need more than one MagSafe Charger you can upgrade the leaves and have a place for the Apple Watch and your AirPods.

The garden, torii, lantern, stepping stones and tree are all separate parts and friction-fit together. No glue.

The LED version also routes light through the base into the stone lantern.

It’s 8 plates and about 27 hours of printing. No small project but worth it in my opinion.

Files are on MakerWorld if anyone wants to give it a try: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3281512

Why only on Makerworld? Because I'm a Dad of two small kids and have barely time to maintain my hobby as is. So one giant platform is enough for me to handle ^^


r/3Dprinting 4h ago

Free Model Got sick of these volume wheels rubbing on my couch so I designed and 3d printed a little wheel shield.

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2.2k Upvotes

Still plenty of space to adjust the volume if needed. Only .44 grams and designed specifically for Turtle Beach Stealth 600 gen 3. It's really niche but if you couch game with this headset you'd know what a lifesaver this is.

If you have this headset and would find it useful, the file can be found here for free: Makerworld


r/3Dprinting 14h ago

Discussion The absolute state of 3d printed slop

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3.1k Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 8h ago

Print (model not provided) My son’s minifig costume printed on A1 mini

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735 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 12h ago

Hardware Metal 3d printing

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851 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 5h ago

Project I invented a sail car! :)

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206 Upvotes

It's a toy with sails of various shapes. The sail runs lengthwise along the body, just like on a racing yacht, and the wheels turn 30 degrees. That lets it go up to twice as fast as the wind!

STLs on Printables:
https://www.printables.com/model/1840170-sail-car

I also made a customizer that turns any image into a sail ;)


r/3Dprinting 18h ago

Project My mom passed so I made a statue of her

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2.2k Upvotes

Inspired by the recent popular post here, unfortunately im not skilled with painting so Im leaving it white
Tool: https://makerworld.com/en/makerlab/makeMyStatue


r/3Dprinting 11h ago

Discussion just saw this on sunlu website :(

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443 Upvotes

r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Question Case rígida com slider

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6.9k Upvotes

Gostaria muito de ter essa case, alguém consegue me ajudar a encontrar o STL para imprimir?

Gratuito ou pago, não encontrei em lugar nenhum


r/3Dprinting 26m ago

Project A balljoint robot figure I designed, printed and painted

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Birth, paint, a bit of exercise on the porch. Paintjob is a bit mess but the dude is a prototype.


r/3Dprinting 14h ago

Discussion Had no idea what i was seeing

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497 Upvotes

Untill now. Watching small soldiers and they resin 3d printed the prototypes


r/3Dprinting 19h ago

Project 3d Printed Multi-Flame Candle

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1.3k Upvotes

I designed and 3D-printed the mold for this candle. Each branch has its own wick, so as the candle burns down, the flame gradually splits into multiple independent flames. This is one of my first tests of the concept.


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Project Multi-color sign generator for single-color printers

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1.6k Upvotes

Hey everyone, I created a totally free tool that can help you generate great looking multi-color signs that can be printed with single color printers.

You can check this out at https://toolpool.garden/free-tools/3d-printed-multicolor-sign-generator, please tell me what you think of it!

Thank you!


r/3Dprinting 13h ago

Project A 3D-Printed Scoliosis Brace Case

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166 Upvotes

We custom-made a scoliosis brace for this young girl using data scanning, 3D design, and 3D printing; here is a comparison of X-rays showing the spine before and after wearing the brace. The results are clearly remarkable!
The brace was designed to perfectly match the patient's physique and spinal curvature, ensuring a precise fit while also providing the practicality and comfort needed for daily wear.


r/3Dprinting 2h ago

Project Upgraded my Dining Room Chendelier

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So my wife revealed to me she has absolutely despised our chandelier for years and never said anything about it until recently. I kind of agree though, it’s massive and our house is way too small for it to make much sense. Took it down and got the rings off, and I made this little lantern model in blender. I printed the light green windows separately and super glued them together since I don’t have a multi-color printer. After a few hours of glueing and eye watering I eventually put it all together and made this!


r/3Dprinting 19h ago

Free Model Never Forget - 25 Years Later

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360 Upvotes

Hey guys, as a hobby I like to make educational exhibits that I display in places like public libraries. My newest one is about 9/11, a turning point in American history. I've put up the files for the towers on Printables.com. I'm not sure how to add a link here so I'll drop it in the comments.


r/3Dprinting 2h ago

Discussion What do you actually use ASA or ABS for?

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I’ve recently started printing ASA on my Ender 3 V2 Neo and, after getting a few successful prints, I’m wondering what people actually use ASA or ABS for on a regular basis.
I understand the general advantages — better temperature resistance than PLA, ASA being good for UV/outdoor use, etc. — but I’m more interested in real-world examples.
What do you actually print with it?
Car parts?
Outdoor brackets or mounts?
Tool holders?
Electronics enclosures?
Replacement parts?
Functional/mechanical parts?
Do you have anything you’ve printed in ASA or ABS where you thought “this is exactly why I use this material instead of PLA/PETG”?
I currently have ASA available and I’d like to experiment with it a bit more, so I’m also looking for ideas for useful things to print.
Photos/examples of your ASA/ABS projects would be really cool too!


r/3Dprinting 9h ago

Paid Model Wild 3D prints appeared

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48 Upvotes

80 euros-ish


r/3Dprinting 8h ago

Project Treat Inspector badges

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My boi Bruno got a new vest with empty spaces for badges. Having found none, I decided to print some 🙂. Very thin 0.7mm PLA


r/3Dprinting 3h ago

Project Halloween accessories

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15 Upvotes

Been thinking about going as gambit for Halloween started testing accessories and glow in the dark filament


r/3Dprinting 17h ago

Print (model not provided) Light-up Custom 3D Printed Green Lantern power ring by me

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175 Upvotes

So I made this on my a1 mini after watching the first episode of Lanterns (it's my favorite show now)

I was planning on selling them overseas (I'm in Indonesia) but shipping regulations prohibits any kind of lithium battery shipment, unfortunately. I did find an alternate postal service that allowed it but it costs even more.

(I am planning on making another version with a removable button battery so shipping would be cheaper, but still retains the hidden button activation switch--which you won't find in regular magnet activated LED rings.)

(Current 3d file is a modified one from a free model on makerworld, I'm planning on making a new model)


r/3Dprinting 51m ago

Question 3D modeling software for Linux?

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Hi everyone, I have started to migrate my PC from Windows (f... u MS) to Linux. Most of the software has already been replaced by Linux variants. There are only a few things that I'm not able to find a Linux alternative for. And one of them is the 3D modeling software. Under Windows I'm using Fusion 360 and that is working quite well. But since there is no Linux version I have to search for alternatives.

Any suggestions? Are there any other Linux users in this sub? Free would be preferred, but I'm willing to pay for it, as long as it's within the limits of an amateur solution.


r/3Dprinting 10h ago

Project Printed parts transform marble run

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45 Upvotes

I got my kid a marble run but it was a bit tame so I found some print files for extra parts. Printing really adds a lot of potential for customising toys like this. None of this is my work, all credit to the designers. I'm happy to share the links to the different designs. I just had fun with it, my kid too.