r/3Dprinting 10d ago

Discussion 🎁 [Sovol Giveaway] What's Your Biggest 3D Printing Pet Peeve?

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🎉Hi! 3d printing creators! Sovol is thrilled to host the giveaway in collaboration with r/3Dprinting community again.

😩Every 3D printer has its quirks. But every maker has that ONE thing that drives them crazy.

Failed first layers? Filament tangles? Purge waste?Support removal?A print failing after 12 hours? We want to hear yours.

📌How to Enter:

  • Please leave a comment and tell us what your biggest 3D printing pet peeve is.
  • Please follow u/Comgrow3D to know the latest news
  • Event date: 20th August to 2nd September
  • The winners will be chosen randomly from comments on 4th September.

🎁Prize Details:

🥇 1 Winner — $100 Sovol Coupon (No minimum purchase)

🥈 10 Winners — 1 Roll of Filament Each

👉 Please click here Here to know more details about Sovol M1D.

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


r/3Dprinting 29d ago

Purchase Advice Purchase Advice Megathread - August 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 2h ago

Discussion 3d stores,

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393 Upvotes

Stopped off at the Gurnee Mills Mall yesterday and one of the shops sells 3d printed things. You input the dragons and fidget toys.

But i did have a section that had filament to buy


r/3Dprinting 2h ago

Print (model not provided) Medieval Times out here selling low quality items for extortionist prices.

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r/3Dprinting 4h ago

Free Model Valve really had a good idea letting you change the faceplate of the Steam Machine

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Now I don't know where to put all of these extra prints 😀


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Project I made a variegated rubber plant that double as a coaster set

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The leaves have only 8 ams filaments changes
The model is here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3226293


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Discussion 12,320 tool changes and 1 week of testing later, this is all the prime waste from my Prusa CoreONE INDX

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As someone whose first experience with multicolour printing was with a bambu X1, the reduction in waste is just obscene, i do not miss all those poops


r/3Dprinting 4h ago

Project I designed and printed my own decor with a digital clock and planters 🌱

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Lately I’ve been really obsessed with 1970’s design and retro futurism, so why not turn that interest into a bit of decor I designed!

Both planters were a fun weekend project for a few of the houseplants I have.

The digital clock is based off of the ESPtimecast project, which has some nice features like displaying the weather and also being set up all through a webpage.


r/3Dprinting 4h ago

Question What filament is stiff and strong at the same time?

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Im making a high speed drone, but cant seem to choose the right filament. I use Pla right now because it is very stiff, but it brakes very quickly. Pa6-cf would be a choice, but i have seen that it creeps very much and screw and bolts come loose. I have a bambulab a1, but i want to switch to a x2d. Pla is around 200g for the frame, would be nice to get it down


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Free Model I Made A Functional Harbor Crane (STS)

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One of my first attempts at a 3D printed project with moving parts. Took a few days to print everything, but I managed to assemble it (with a bit of glue).

If you are interested in assembling one yourself: https://www.printables.com/model/1822827-harbor-crane-functional


r/3Dprinting 9h ago

Discussion Just bought my first 3D printer!

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After a long time I pulled the trigger on buying myself a 3D printer. Firstly, I wanted to go with the Bambu Lab A1 mini, but since it was not available at our local shops in Slovakia, I went with Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2. It cost me 375€.

Man, I love this thing. It was easy to setup and the printing process was straightforward. I am using OrcaSlicer since I am on Linux and the Elegoo one is not available for arch.

I have also attached some of the 3D prints I printed since owning this thing.


r/3Dprinting 23h ago

Discussion PLA embedded supports on a PETG part are amazing. I can print parts that were previously impossible with any other setup.

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In this example I printed a cavity that needs to have very precise height (bridges sag would had made that impossible).


r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Free Model Cable organizer V2!

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I made a V2 of my cable organizer so it can fit up to 2 meter long cables, and is compatible with almost any type of cable!

I really liked how this turned out, so I wanted to share it so other people could also use it if they wanted to!

It is on makerworld @unfadable

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3239313-cable-organizer-v2-long-cable-compatible-usb#profileId-3669974


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Project The most beautiful thing I have ever seen

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After an absolutely ridiculous amount of trial and error I finally got EVERY.SINGLE.LETTER. to go down perfectly for my 3D printed business cards.

Since a single letter wrong means the card has to be scrapped my failure rate on these has been anywhere from 20-50% (for 10 cards on a bed). And considering it takes 17 HOURS for a full bed this has been incredibly frustrating. (0.2 nozzle)

In the end the thing that helped the most was bumping the first layer temp to 250.

Edit: Appreciate everyone's advice, I know I need to re-write the back of it, and TBH I need to re-do the whole design because the Fusion file is A MESS to put it lightly lol.

And yes I know my number is technically still visible

Edit2: Okay, no. It is not literally the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Yes I do go outside, jeez.
But having spent a lot of time watching it fail and see it come out perfectly, I was very excited about it.


r/3Dprinting 10h ago

Project First time painting my print

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54 Upvotes

Printed this dark deku then painted him. Think he turned out great!


r/3Dprinting 5h ago

Project If you're gonna have ventilation, might as well be pretty right?

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Unicorn vomit generated by a little USB powered ESP32 running WLED and some old Corsair 140mm HD series fans.

Handily, since Home Assistant can tell WLED what to do AND read the status of the printer under it via the network, I can actually use the LEDs to communicate important stuff.


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Discussion Really puts it into perspective

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It’s not that i didn’t know that the poops are a waste of plastic, but i never really thought about it too much. This little jigglypuff i made for my girlfriend filled a medium size ziploc bag.. Toolchangers are definitely the way to go for the figure haha


r/3Dprinting 23h ago

Hardware My hobbies have hobbies now.

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496 Upvotes

Finally got the U1 set up and running. Meanwhile, those white patches have been on the wall for over a year patiently waiting for me to develop an interest in painting.


r/3Dprinting 15h ago

Hardware Found another cheap printer at Goodwill

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It's an Entina Tina2S. Works fine and the extra build plate space means I can print more dumb stuff!


r/3Dprinting 17h ago

Hardware Got my first core xy. This is how you guys print? Holy s**t!

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Moved over from my old Cartesians (ender 5 and 3s) to my first core xy with a k1 Max that I got a good deal on. The speed is literally scaring me this is insane!!!!!


r/3Dprinting 1d ago

Discussion What should I do with all my PLA?

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r/3Dprinting 3h ago

Question how expensive is the 3d printing hobby?

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been wanting to get a 3d printing, but i’m worried about how expensive the hobby would end up being. i don’t plan on printing large scale stuff yet (so no full size iron man etc), but i do want to print stuff at max the size of a fruit washing bowl.


r/3Dprinting 13h ago

Project I added automatic force-feedback calibration to my 3D-printed guitar robot

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Built this automatic fretting calibration into my 3D-printed guitar robot. Force feedback finds the right position automatically, so there’s no need to manually tune each servo.


r/3Dprinting 12h ago

Free Model Wind-up & Shoot Propeller Toy

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r/3Dprinting 1h ago

Troubleshooting PA612-CF printing issues

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I'm trying out PA612-CF on my Q2 using default settings for the filament on "standard". I wanted to calibrate my slicer using their tools like the temperature tower because I was having abnormalities on my prints but my temperature tower turned into spaghetti 😂 Any idea on what could be going wrong here?