Models Showcase: free 3D-printable organizers

By Krypto

Complexity

Multi-part assembly

Others Geometric & decorative

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MAIN PURPOSE: Keep matches, a striker and spent ends together

A match safe built as a little cairn of stones. Matches stand in the middle stone under a friction cap, the flat crown of the cap takes a strike strip cut from the matchbox, and the small pebble beside the base is the dish for spent matches, so the kit for the fire or candles lives together.

Printing notes

86.2 cm³

Volume

106.9 g

Est. weight

3,992

Triangles

Keep away from children. Glue the strike strip to the cap top. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports. The added base's lid prints separately. Stacked parts are fused into one print.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Medium

Others Geometric & decorative

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Portico Clock

MAIN PURPOSE: Tell the time on a mantel or shelf

A mantel clock in the shape of a round-headed portico. Fit a standard quartz movement behind the face through the 8 mm hole, four small pierced dots mark the quarters, and the hollow back hides the movement and its battery; it stands on its own stepped plinth.

Printing notes

113.6 cm³

Volume

140.8 g

Est. weight

1,708

Triangles

Print face down. Needs a 12 mm-thread quartz movement and hands. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Medium

Others Geometric & decorative

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Andon Cube

MAIN PURPOSE: Diffuse an LED puck through a paper-lined lattice

A paper lantern for a battery LED puck, after the Japanese andon. Line the inside with washi or baking paper, stand a puck on the floor and the grid of square windows on every side glows like a shoji screen; there is no flame, so it is safe on a bedside or in a child room.

Printing notes

33.9 cm³

Volume

42.0 g

Est. weight

2,556

Triangles

Battery LED pucks only, never candles. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Others Geometric & decorative

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Eclipse Halo

MAIN PURPOSE: Throw a ring of light onto the wall behind

A halo lamp that lights the wall, not the room. Stick a battery LED puck inside the hollow back of the disc, stand it a hand width from a wall and the disc goes dark while a ring of light blooms around it, like a solar eclipse; the splayed foot keeps it upright.

Printing notes

134.6 cm³

Volume

166.8 g

Est. weight

888

Triangles

Print face down; stick the puck on with its own pad. Prints as shown on its outline, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Others Geometric & decorative

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Pleatlight

MAIN PURPOSE: Glow an LED puck through thin pleated walls

A shade whose walls are a single line thick. Print the pleated gear outline in translucent white PLA with a 1 mm wall, stand it over a battery LED puck and the whole surface glows, brighter on every fold; it turns the thin-wall limit of a printer into the look of a pleated paper shade.

Printing notes

114.9 cm³

Volume

142.5 g

Est. weight

812

Triangles

Translucent white PLA, 1 mm wall, no infill. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Multi-part assembly

Others Geometric & decorative

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Folio Lamp

MAIN PURPOSE: Glow on a shelf while propping up a row

A bookend that glows. It stands at the end of a row like a closed hardback: the books lean on its plain side, the wave cut-outs on its cover side light up from an LED puck inside, and the spine carries an engraved title. Coins in the bottom add weight.

Printing notes

33.4 cm³

Volume

41.4 g

Est. weight

8,230

Triangles

Battery LED puck only. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports. The lid prints as a separate part, top down.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Others Geometric & decorative

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Luminaria Ring

MAIN PURPOSE: Hold a paper tube lantern round an LED puck

A base that turns a sheet of paper into a lantern. Roll an A4 sheet of tracing paper, pierced or drawn on, into a tube and stand it in the narrow ring groove; an LED puck sits in the middle and lights the paper from inside, so every new sheet is a new lantern.

Printing notes

41.8 cm³

Volume

51.9 g

Est. weight

1,008

Triangles

Battery LED pucks only. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Others Geometric & decorative

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Meander Tile

MAIN PURPOSE: Tile a wall with a rearrangeable meander

A flat tile with two quarter circles bitten from opposite corners. Hang a field of them on single centre screws and turn each one a quarter at random: the bites meet across the joints and the wall shows a wandering path of circles and S curves, different every time you rearrange it.

Printing notes

68.0 cm³

Volume

84.4 g

Est. weight

360

Triangles

A dot of removable adhesive stops a tile turning. Prints flat as a plate, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Medium

Others Geometric & decorative

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Stijl Panel

MAIN PURPOSE: Compose a grid artwork with swappable inserts

A De Stijl grid you finish yourself. Thick black-style bars divide the panel into nine unequal cells: fill a few with coloured card, paint or fabric offcuts and leave the rest blank, then hang it on its keyhole as a modern wall piece that changes whenever the inserts do.

Printing notes

136.9 cm³

Volume

169.8 g

Est. weight

976

Triangles

Print in black or white; inserts cut from card. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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By Krypto

Complexity

Simple

Others Geometric & decorative

0

Coffer Tile

MAIN PURPOSE: Give a wall the depth of a coffered ceiling

A coffered relief tile, the sunken ceiling panel of Roman and Renaissance halls at the scale of a wall tile. A deep frame, a moulded inner ring and a sunken centre catch light from above in three steps; hang a grid of them on their keyholes for an instant architectural wall or ceiling.

Printing notes

191.9 cm³

Volume

238.0 g

Est. weight

1,632

Triangles

White matt shows the shadows best. Prints as shown on its floor, no supports.

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