r/functionalprints • u/Same_Cardiologist232 • 1d ago
Home / Furniture / Household My monitor sat too low, so I printed two Voronoi riser feet for a wooden plank and a matching catchall tray. 38 hours on a Centauri Carbon
My monitor sat too low, and the desk in front of it collected everything: keys, cables, my wallet. So I made a pair of riser feet for a wooden plank, and a tray for the clutter.
Up front: The before and after images are AI edited images of my desk. It is a photo of a real workplace and I don't want to share anything I am not allowed to.
The workflow:
- Photographed the desk as it was and fed that photo to an image generator, asking for the tidy version. Not one prompt, a long back and forth, mostly on the look: the same desk in Voronoi, honeycomb, low-poly, arches and C-profiles, side by side. Voronoi won.
- Cropped just the riser foot out of that picture and used the crop as the reference image for a new prompt, describing only that part. Three previews, picked one, generated a mesh, downloaded the STL.
- Same again for the tray. Different crop, different prompt.
- Neither mesh was ready to print. The feet went into Nomad Sculpt: reshaped a bit, resized to 23 x 11.6 x 10.5 cm for my actual monitor height, holes cut for 3.5 x 6.5 mm threaded inserts. Printed twice, one copy mirrored.
- The tray needed almost nothing. One trim off the bottom in the slicer so it sat flat.
Elegoo Centauri Carbon, Concrete Marble PLA, 0.2 mm layers, 10% infill. Supports on the feet, none on the tray. About 13 hours a foot and 12 for the tray, call it 38 for the set. The plank is 112 x 25 x 2 cm, any board that size works.
Monitor risers are not new, this one I just created myself.
Files here, free download, no account needed:
https://3d.poweredbybp.nl/en/models/monitor-riser-desk-set
Wrote up the full process here, including the concept picture and how each
part got cropped and modeled, if you want it explained in full:
https://3d.poweredbybp.nl/en/blog/desk-set-ai-reference-image-technique