Tips & step-by-step guides

An SVG skips tracing entirely. For PNG/JPG, a black shape on pure white (#FFFFFF) traces cleanly; gradients, shadows and grey backgrounds make ragged edges.

The default wall is 15 mm. Rolled dough needs about 12 mm, polymer clay sheets 8–10 mm. Every millimetre you take off in the Outer tab is filament and time saved.

The bottom layer stiffens the cutter. For cutters up to about 80 mm, 2–3 mm is enough; widen it only for large or very thin shapes that flex.

Keep the top layer at least one line wide (0.4–0.5 mm on a 0.4 mm nozzle). Anything thinner prints as gaps — the print-ready badge flags it.

In Polygons, give an inner shape a lower height: it presses a line into the dough without cutting through. Switch off shapes you do not need at all.

Use Hole for earring holes and Drill for jump-ring holes: they cut with the outline, so both earrings of a pair hang the same way.

Tick Hollow core on the Cylinder tab. The slicer prints a tube instead of a solid rod — much less filament, and you can push a dowel through as a handle.

Stand the roller on its end. The relief then prints without supports and the layer lines run round the barrel, where they do not show in the clay.

Browse patterns at a lower Detail level for a quicker preview, then set it back to maximum before you download.

Make the roller a little longer than the widest sheet you roll, so the ends never leave a mark. Diameter changes how many repeats wrap round.

For an uploaded image, the Color Depths tab sets how deep each colour presses and in which direction — keep the background flat and the motif deep.

Switch off lowercase, numbers or symbols you will not use, or list custom characters. A 26-letter set you never touch is a lot of filament.

The working face is mirrored so the impression reads the right way round. The top of each stamp carries the character the right way, so you can find it in the tray.

Choose pedestal handles and add the rail: stamps slide in side by side and press a whole word at once. If they stick, raise Slot Clearance by 0.1 mm.

Letters under 10 mm come out crisper at 0.12–0.16 mm layers. Print the stamps face up.

The storage box and lid are sized to the set you generated, so every stamp has its own cell.

A cutter follows closed outlines. An open line cannot be cut, so join the ends — snapping to endpoints makes it exact.

While drawing, type a length instead of dragging by eye. Snapping to midpoints, centres and intersections keeps symmetrical shapes symmetrical.

Traced photos produce far more points than a cutter needs, plus stray fragments. Delete the strays and simplify — it is faster than re-tracing.

Text becomes outlines, so it extrudes as geometry. Thin serifs break in dough; a bold sans-serif cuts cleanly.

Make cutter turns the sheet into a cutter; Make multicutter makes one cutter from several shapes on the sheet.

Vase mode (single thin wall, spiralize) on the Print tab plus the slicer’s spiral mode prints one continuous wall: the least filament and the fastest print of all.

For decoration, 1.6–2 mm is plenty. Keep 2.4 mm or more for planters that are carried full of soil.

Keep Support-free (flat foot + ≤45° flares) on. It reshapes the body so nothing overhangs past 45°. Turn it off only for vase-mode prints, where steep flares are fine.

A printed vase is watertight as a model, not in practice — water creeps between layers. Put a glass inside for cut flowers.

Turn on Drainage Holes and Include matching saucer. Print planters for outdoors or the bathroom in PETG; PLA softens in hot sun.

Use Auto-fit to 245mm plate, or Split parts with Snap pins or a Lip ring, to print a big vase in pieces.

Lids use Fit Clearance (0.2 mm by default). Print a small box first: if the lid jams, go to 0.25–0.3 mm; if it rattles, 0.15 mm.

Lids are already oriented for printing, so no supports are needed. Leave them as exported.

Bins have thin walls on a 42 mm grid. Set enough slicer walls to fill the wall completely and 0–15% infill for the base — it prints faster and just as strong.

Magnet holes (6.5×2 mm) and Screw holes (3 mm) only matter on a baseplate you fix down. Skip them for bins that just sit in a drawer.

Dividers are carved from the cavity, so on round or hex boxes they follow the wall. Fewer compartments means less plastic and easier cleaning.

Raised text starts at a known height: add a filament change at that layer in your slicer. With an AMS, tick Two-colour and download 3MF — the text arrives as its own part.

Keytags and earrings thinner than about 2 mm look delicate and snap. Ornaments that only hang can be thinner.

Tick Matching pair (earrings) — the jump-ring hole is part of the geometry, so both earrings hang the same.

Small parts print faster several at a time: fill the bed with copies in the slicer, and order ten or more from us for a quantity discount.

The Underside logo / text (2nd colour) sits at a depth that lands on a layer boundary, so a clean filament change is possible.

Stand the panel upright: the layer lines then run across the picture and the detail is far finer than printing it flat.

Any infill pattern shows through as a grid when lit. Use 100% infill and white or natural PLA.

Around 0.8 mm for Min thickness (bright) and 3 mm for Max thickness (dark) is a good start. More range gives more contrast but a darker, heavier panel.

Contrast lifts a flat photo; Smoothing removes sensor noise and JPEG blocks that would otherwise print as grain.

The Tealight recess is sized for battery LED tealights. Never use a real flame in a printed lantern.

Pick an object in Library, then open Adjust and type the real size of what it holds — the phone, the tool, the jar. A fit to your thing beats any default.

Kid boats default to a 256 mm bed. The scale setting makes one bigger or smaller and is capped to the bed. They float upright and print without supports.

Anything that carries weight — hooks, brackets, rails — is stronger printed on its side, so the load does not pull layers apart. Use 4 walls and PETG.

10–15% infill for decoration and organisers, 25–40% for hooks and stands. Walls add more strength than infill does.

Soap dishes, toothbrush holders and anything near a sink or dishwasher last longer in PETG than in PLA.

Scale resizes the whole boat and is capped to your bed; the default fits a 256 mm bed. A smaller boat prints much faster.

The hulls are designed solid so they float upright. Print with 15–20% infill and at least 3 walls so water cannot get in.

Everything on deck is fused on and printable without supports — do not add them, they only leave marks.

Toys are for supervised play. Check small parts before giving a boat to a child under three, and dry it after the bath.

Every piece is scaled to the same size and wall, so the results look like a set rather than a pile of cutters.

One uploaded shape, the same rings at every size — ideal for nested cutters. Polygons there chooses which inner details get stamped.

The Plates tab packs the set onto print beds, so you print a whole alphabet in a few runs instead of 26.

Letters with floating counters (A, B, O…) are braced to their wall so nothing falls apart. Bold fonts give the strongest cutters.

Tuned for a 0.4 mm nozzle. Print one pair of tiles before the whole board and adjust by 0.05 mm steps.

Printer bed decides how the board is split and packed. Small printers get more, smaller plates — the board is the same.

On a single-nozzle printer keep it on and you only change filament between plates. Turn it off to mix colours on a plate with an AMS.

Elephant’s foot on the first layer makes puzzle joints tight. Level the bed and turn on your slicer’s elephant-foot compensation.

Every piece prints on its base without supports. 15% infill is enough; add the Felt recess if you like felt underneath.

The Brain teasers tab has twenty puzzle kits. A solver checks every challenge and key card before it is printed; print the cards in two colours (or pause at the ink layer) so the answers stay readable.

Print the Printer calibration set: XYZ cube, a hole-clearance plate with its peg, bridges and overhang fins. It tells you which clearances your printer really needs.

Workshop gauges get dropped and handled with oily hands. PETG survives it; the engraved sizes stay readable.

Enter the real outside diameter of your tubes or bits — manufacturers’ nominal sizes vary more than the clearance does.

Tangrams, fraction circles and geometric solids read better with one colour per piece type. Order a class set from us with a quantity discount.

The price comes from the grams and hours of your actual model. Thinner walls, a hollow roller core or vase mode make the print cheaper too.

Fast for storage and toys, Standard for most things, Fine detail for stamps, figurines and small lettering.

Choose PETG for kitchen, bath and outdoor use; PLA for decoration and indoor use.

The same design costs less each from 10 pieces (−5 %), 25 (−10 %), 50 (−15 %) and 100 (−20 %). The cart tells you how many more you need for the next step.

Tick This is a gift for a parcel without prices, with a printed message card. Companies can add a VAT number for an invoice with company details.

Your Maker’s mark (2–20 characters) is unique across sellers. Put it on the model, where it cannot be cropped out like a watermark.

A shop in Test mode shows exactly what would be sent to Etsy or Shopify without sending anything. Go live when the texts read right.

Create branded shots renders the listing photos from your model, in your brand colour with your logo — no printing and photographing first.

For printed-item listings, turn on automatic fulfilment: when an order comes in, we print and ship it. Your price is a markup on our print price.

Set your usual material, quality, colour and units once in Print defaults; every print order starts from them.

A clear name and the right category are what people search for. The render in Explore is made from your model.

On Pro and above, Open and remix opens a published design as your own copy — the original stays untouched.

You can order a print of any published design, even without a printer or a paid plan.

A remix can be printed and, on Pro, sold as a printed item — but only your own original designs can be sold as files.