Showcase

Models Showcase

Models shared by the SO3D.xyz community. Open any of them in the generator to see exactly how it was built, remix it, or print it as-is. Browse the model library by category

Preview of Smartphone projector with focus slots
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Project a phone screen onto a wall through a magnifying lens
A shoebox cinema, done properly. A magnifying lens fits over the round front port, and the phone stands upright in one of four numbered focus slots inside. Moving it back a slot focuses the picture on the wall like a slide projector, with no sliding parts. The lid blacks out the box so the image is as bright as possible. Lights off, film on.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Stereoscope card viewer
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: See stereo photo cards in 3D through two lens ports
A modern take on the Victorian stereoscope. You look through two lens ports set the width of your eyes apart, a centre septum stops each eye seeing the other picture, and a stereo card slides into the slot at the back. Two flat photos taken a step apart pop into 3D. Make your own cards with any phone by shooting, stepping sideways and shooting again.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Giant matchbox keepsake
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Give a gift that slides out of a giant matchbox
Everyone knows how a matchbox opens, so a giant one is a gift box with a built-in moment: push the drawer and the present slides out. It is sized for jewellery, a watch, a message or tickets. OPEN ME is raised on the drawer end.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Rubin vase pen tray
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Keep pens in a vase that turns into two faces
A pen tray built on Rubin's vase, the most famous figure-ground illusion. Look at the tray and you see a vase. Look at the desk beside it and you see two faces looking at each other, their foreheads, noses, lips and chins traced by the vase's curves. Pens lie in the vase, and the illusion is always on the desk.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Swiss-cheese wedge knife tray
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Rest cheese knives and picks in a cartoon cheese wedge
A cheese-course tray shaped like a cartoon wedge of Swiss cheese, holes bitten out of its edges. The cheese knives, forks and picks lie in the wedge between courses instead of on the tablecloth. It always gets a smile when the board comes out.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Egg-drop challenge pod
By Krypto
Complexity
Multi-part assembly
MAIN PURPOSE: Protect a raw egg in a drop test with rubber-band suspension and a parachute ring
The classic school engineering challenge, turned into a reusable test rig. The egg sits in a round inner cradle, and the holes all over the walls let you thread rubber bands across the pod to hang it like a hammock. Fill the gap with your own crumple zone: straws, foam or popcorn. The ring on the lid takes a parachute. Drop it down the stairwell, open it up and see whether your design held, then change one thing and drop again.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Floppy-disk desk tray
By Krypto
Complexity
Medium
MAIN PURPOSE: Sort desk bits in a giant 3.5-inch floppy disk
The save icon that outlived the thing it pictures, blown up into a desk tray. A shutter bay along the front takes pens, the big label area holds notes and cards, and 1.44 MB is engraved in the floor. A notched corner stands in for the write-protect tab. Anyone who remembers floppy disks will want one.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Spider-web party platter
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Serve Halloween snacks in a spider web
A Halloween platter laid out as a spider's web: eight spokes and a ring of silk split it into an outer ring of sixteen snack bays and an inner web, with a dip well at the centre where the spider would sit. Fill the bays with sweets, pretzel sticks and grapes and let the guests get tangled.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Watermelon-slice snack tray
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Serve summer snacks in a watermelon slice
A half-moon snack tray shaped like a slice of watermelon, with a raised inner wall as the rind running round the curve and three bays like the slices you would cut. It is made for barbecues and picnics; fill it with fruit, crisps and dips.
AR view Open in app
Preview of Open love-lock ring box
By Krypto
Complexity
Simple
MAIN PURPOSE: Present a ring in an open padlock waiting to be locked
Couples lock padlocks onto bridges to seal a promise. This ring box is a love-lock caught open, its shackle lifted, waiting for the answer. The ring sits in the lock body, and when the answer is yes, the lock is closed. It is a proposal box with a story to tell.
AR view Open in app

SO3D.xyz is free and built by one maker. Help keep it running.

Be one of the first supporters this month.