Textured vases offer a variety of design ideas. They make good decorations and desk organizers (though not always good water-holding vessels, especially printed in Vase Mode.)
Some designers even specialize in twisty vases.
Year: 2025
This is a collection of interesting logos from all over Printables.com. They are of all sorts, single-color, multi-color, large, small. Use them as inspiration for what can be done or download and print one out for yourself.
If you have a logo you’d like to learn to model into a 3D printable file, I’d suggest Inkscape and OpenSCAD as reasonable, free, open-source tools that can help you do that.
If you’d like a logo turned into a 3D printable file or want your logo 3D printed, send us an inquiry with the specifics.
These shapes are designed to be added as “negative volumes” within most slicers to create a useful space to an existing part. As examples, this might include forming a pocket to embed magnets within a print, adding a keyhole hanger to an existing model, or converting an existing shape into a knob, puzzle, or even a bobblehead.
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Top Users on Printables.com
Prusa doesn’t make it easily to see who are the top leveled-up users on Printables.com, but with a little detective work, here’s some of the current top users, as of June 2025.
- S H (level 43)(!)
92k+ downloads, 19k+ likes, 559 followers, 17 following - Extrutim (level 42)
264k+ downloads, 73k+ likes, 4784 followers, 113 following - Mikolas Zuza (level 36)
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259k+ downloads, 56k+ likes, 4291 followers, 159 following - Bugman_140 (level 32)
136k+ downloads, 37k+ likes, 2797 followers, 9 following - Matt Boyer (level 30)
56k+ downloads, 16k+ likes, 450 followers, 57 following - Cisco (level 28)
109k+ downloads, 34k+ likes, 1802 followers, 94 following - layer.works (level 28)
5k+ downloads, 331 likes, 36 followers, 113 following - HD_Creator (level 27)
128k+ downloads, 29k+ likes, 1051 followers, 14 following - Ondřej Stříteský (level 26)
Prusa Research Staff
132k+ downloads, 21k+ likes, 1354 followers, 114 following - Area51 (level 25)
49k+ downloads, 8k+ likes, 271 followers, 24 following
Levels, accomplishments, statistics are changing constantly, so follow the links to each users’ profile to see their current accomplishments.
See all the other Printables.com statistics pages on this blog.
This collection of printable modifications add functionality, style, performance, or easier maintenance to your Prusa MK3S 3D printer without causing negative side-effects or impacts.
This model by jofeinmechaniker is one of the best mechanical models I’ve printed in 14 years of modelling and printing. It inexplicably has less than 200 downloads and only 2 makes as of this post. It prints easily, turns smoothly, and makes an excellent desk display. Please check out the design and give it a download and make if you appreciate the designer’s work.
Inspired by that creator’s work, I experimented with excellent Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL2) that easily extends and multiplies the power of OpenSCAD. This shape is a variant of a bevel gear and has very interesting characteristics. I’ve been contemplating making a version of this with 3, 4, 5+ bevel gears.
I decided to participate in WeTheBuilders‘ most recent project to make a large, distributed, crowd-sourced 3D printed statue.
This latest project was a statue of Charon, the psychopomp Styx ferryman of Greek mythology, sculpted by Ryan Kittleson. This collaboratively-printed sculpture was displayed at Loveburn 2025, in Miami in February 2025 and is now back in Baltimore awaiting display in a more permanent home.
A full gallery of the assembly process and final display at the festival.
Participating in the crowd-sourced project was a great experience. I ended up printing 4 pieces for the Charon statue. They provide the .STLs (via a check-out mechanism), you provide the plastic, the printing, and shipping to them.
Some quick facts about the project:
- The final statue was about 5 feet tall, 2.5 feet wide, and 4 feet front-to-back.
- Approximately 40 individuals printed parts for this project.
- The sculpture was subdivided into 260 parts using Luban.
- Participants were encouraged to include a coin in the parts they printed, in the style of the ancient Greek tradition of burying the dead with a coin in their mouth to pay the ferryman’s toll across the river Styx.
Full credit where due: the WeTheBuilders team ran logistics, conceptualized the project and sculpture, received and assembled the parts, and transported the finished project from Baltimore to Miami and back.
I look forward to participating in future WeTheBuilders projects and would encourage you to look into participating as well. At the very least, consider a bookmark and visit the site occasionally for updates.