Models Showcase: free 3D-printable organizers

By Krypto

Complexity

Simple (set)

Kitchen Serving & table

0

MAIN PURPOSE: Store coasters as a stack that fans into a flower

Coasters that fan out: teardrops with a pivot hole in the tip stack on the Petal Stem. Closed, they are one neat teardrop; swing them round and six coasters open into a flower on the table, ready to hand out.

Printing notes

31.1 cm³

Volume

38.5 g

Est. weight

428

Triangles

Print six flat in PETG. Prints flat as a plate, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Medium

Kitchen Serving & table

0

Petal Stem

MAIN PURPOSE: Hold pivoting coasters on one stem

The pivot base for Petal Coasters: a weighted 70 mm dish with a solid 10 mm stem. Drop the coasters on by their tip holes; they swing freely round the stem and fan into a flower or close into one teardrop.

Printing notes

21.0 cm³

Volume

26.0 g

Est. weight

1,520

Triangles

Print upright, 4 walls for a stiff stem. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports. Stacked parts are fused into one print.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Kitchen Serving & table

0

Victoria Ribs

MAIN PURPOSE: Stand hot pans on lily-pad ribs

A trivet built like the underside of a giant Amazon water lily. Victoria pads carry a child on a thin leaf because twelve radial ribs and rings of cross veins stiffen it; here the same ribs stand up, so a hot pan touches only their edges and air runs underneath.

Printing notes

143.6 cm³

Volume

178.1 g

Est. weight

1,928

Triangles

PETG or ASA for hot pans. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Advanced (set)

Kitchen Food storage

0

Culm Stack

MAIN PURPOSE: Stack canisters whose floors are each other’s lids

Stacking canisters that work like bamboo. In a culm each node is a wall that seals the section below; here each segment carries its node on the bottom, so the floor of one segment is the lid of the next and the spigot under it locates in the mouth below. Stack loose teas, spices or beads into one green column.

Printing notes

55.5 cm³

Volume

68.9 g

Est. weight

2,040

Triangles

PETG. Print several; the top one is a short cap. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports. Stacked parts are fused into one print.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Multi-part assembly

Kitchen Food preparation

0

Vespiary

MAIN PURPOSE: Hang a ball of twine and pull it from below

A hanging dispenser for butcher’s or garden twine, after a hornet nest, whose layered paper envelope opens only underneath. The ball sits inside, the end feeds out of the single hole in the base, and the ring on the screw cap hangs it from a hook, so the string is always to hand and never rolls away.

Printing notes

128.1 cm³

Volume

158.9 g

Est. weight

3,302

Triangles

Print upright; cap separately. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports. The threaded lid and its neck piece print separately; adjust Fit in the Lid tab if it binds.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Multi-part assembly

Kitchen Baking & sweets

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Pod of Five

MAIN PURPOSE: Give five truffles in a pea pod box

A gift box for five chocolate truffles shaped like a pea pod. Five cells line up along the curved pod, one per truffle, and the snug lid closes it like a pod not yet split. Fill it with truffles, sugared almonds or macarons as a small present.

Printing notes

55.7 cm³

Volume

69.1 g

Est. weight

1,864

Triangles

Food-safe PETG, or line with paper cases. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports. The lid prints as a separate part, top down.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Medium

Kitchen Food preparation

0

Illicium

MAIN PURPOSE: Lay out eight spices before cooking

A spice palette for cooking shaped like star anise, the pod of eight boat-shaped carpels round a central axis. Each carpel is a well for one ground spice or seed, so a whole curry or bake is measured out before the pan is hot.

Printing notes

39.8 cm³

Volume

49.3 g

Est. weight

3,992

Triangles

Food-safe PETG. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Medium

Kitchen Serving & table

0

Gridshell Mesh

MAIN PURPOSE: Spring a flat lattice into a curved fruit bowl

The flat half of a gridshell fruit bowl. Print this square lattice flat, then press it down into the Gridshell Hoop: the grid cannot stretch, so it bends in two directions at once and springs into a doubly curved shell with four rising corners, the same trick used for timber gridshell roofs.

Printing notes

51.5 cm³

Volume

63.8 g

Est. weight

1,836

Triangles

Print flat in PETG or TPU so it flexes without cracking.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Kitchen Serving & table

0

Gridshell Hoop

MAIN PURPOSE: Hold a flexible lattice in its shell shape

The ring that turns the Gridshell Mesh into a bowl. Its 154 mm opening is smaller than the 220 mm lattice, so pushing the mesh in forces it into a shell, while the open floor lets the curve dip lower and crumbs fall through. The hoop alone also stands a round loaf or melon.

Printing notes

115.3 cm³

Volume

143.0 g

Est. weight

1,008

Triangles

Print in PLA or PETG with 3 perimeters for a stiff ring. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Kitchen Kitchen organisers

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Shukhov Base

MAIN PURPOSE: Build a hyperboloid crock from straight skewers

The foot of a hyperboloid utensil crock. Stand bamboo skewers in every tooth gap round the rim and hold them with a rubber band, slip the Shukhov Collar over the top and twist it: the straight skewers lean into a waisted hyperboloid tower, the structure Shukhov used for his radio masts.

Printing notes

48.3 cm³

Volume

59.9 g

Est. weight

616

Triangles

Needs 30 cm bamboo skewers and two strong rubber bands. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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