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.
Category: Printables.Com
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 3-D 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 3-D printable file or want your logo 3-D 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)
Prusa Research Staff, Host Prusa Live
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 3-D 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.
Today Prusa made their latest alpha release of PrusaSlicer available on github: 2.6.0-alpha2. (Make sure you understand what alpha testing is before downloading/using this software. An alpha or release of a software package intends to do something particular, and mostly does so, yet isn’t guaranteed to do so fully. You are testing out an early version of this software, if you find a bug, report it.)
There are many game-changing features in this release, but in particular, this post provides step-by-step instructions on how to get the “auto downloading from printables.com directly into PrusaSlicer software”.
- Enable “Show PrusaSlicer button” in your profile while logged into printables.com.
Click the avatar icon (upper right corner), then chose the first line item (your user name), then scroll down next to the bold title “Info“, and click on “Edit your profile link”. When the modal window appears, scroll down to the checkboxes section and enable the checkbox for “Show PrusaSlicer button”, then click “Save” at the top of the window. - Enable download option in PrusaSlicer software.
In the menu, select Configuration -> Preferences (or Ctrl-P), then select the Other tab. Click the checkbox to “Allow downloads from Printables.com”, then choose “OK”.
These changes should make it so you see the the PrusaSlicer icon next to the download button while viewing a model’s “Files” list.
Select the PrusaSlicer icon next to the file you want to test, confirm (twice) that you want to allow the download integration, and everything should be working.
I’ve tested this on a Windows 10 PC using Chrome, Firefox, and Edge successfully with PrusaSlicer 2.6.0-alpha2.
Feel free to try out the integration on some of my models on printables.com.
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Printables.com statistics
This post is to consolidate my separate posts about various categories of statistics gathered from the printables.com 3-D printing database website.
- Popular Designers (most downloads of their designs)
- Top Users (highest overall level achieved)
- Top Modelers (most model designs published)
- Top Makers (most models printed/posted)
- Top Downloaders (most models downloaded)
- Prusa Staff
- Prusa Approved Designers (deprecated, retired)
Hopefully this will help you find excellent resources, models, and connections on printables.com.
Please comment if you have any suggestions or corrections.
As of February 2023, these are the “Stars of Design”, or most popular designers (most models downloaded by other users) on printables.com:
9 – (Black Hole?) (1,000,000(?) models downloaded) 0 users (0%)
8 – Pulsar (250,000 models downloaded) 2 users (<0.1%)
- Prusa Research (beyond levels…) December 15, 2021
(Currently, 790,000 downloads) - MZ4250 (lvl 20) December 4, 2022
(Currently, 316,700 downloads)
7 – Supergiant (100,000 models downloaded) 3 users (0%)
6 – Blue Giant (25,000 models downloaded) 72 users (<0.1%)
5 – Red Giant (5,000 models downloaded) 438 users (0.2%)
4 – White Dwarf (1,000 models downloaded) 2,459 users (1%)
3 – Red Dwarf (250 models downloaded) 7,153 users (3%)
2 – Star (50 models downloaded) 15,368 users (6.5%)
1 – Nebula (10 models downloaded) 16,384 users (6.9%)
By inference ~82.3% of printables.com users haven’t had at least 10 models downloaded yet.
(Level values are a snapshot, these values change constantly over time. Follow the profile links if you want to know their current accomplishments.)
See all the other Printables.com statistics pages on this blog.
The title of “Prusa Approved Designer” was awarded at by the Printables Team at its discretion to recognize and reward long-term, consistent, and high-quality work. As of September 2022, there were 15 “Prusa Approved Designers” on Printables.com. I’ve compiled them here for easy reference and one-page access in case you’d like to explore their profiles. Consider checking out, following, and supporting these successful and hard working designers if they interest you.
(It appears Printables.com got rid of this award, so I’m archiving this here for posterity.)
(in chronological order)
- Josef Průša, Czechia, (Prusa Staff), December 17, 2021
- 3DPrintBunny, Australia, (Prusa Live Guest), January 18, 2022
- Dsk001, United States, (Prusa Live Guest), January 18, 2022
- Michael Fanta, Czechia, January 18, 2022
- Wekster, Croatia, January 18, 2022
- Dominik Císař, United Kingdom, (Prusa Staff), January 18, 2022
- Cisco, Canada, (Contest Winner), March 18, 2022
- Martin, Czechia, March 22, 2022
- LoboCNC, United States, April 4, 2022
- @neil3dprints, United Kingdom, April 8, 2022
- Breaks’n’Makes (Joe Casha), Malta, (Prusa Live Guest), June 1, 2022
- Fotis Mint, ?, (Prusa Live Guest), June 16, 2022
- Bugman_140, United Kingdom, (Contest Winner, Prusa Live Guest), June 18, 2022
- 3D Printing World, United States, June 18, 2022
- JS-studio, Czechia, (Contest Winner), June 18, 2022
(All values are a snapshot only. Follow the profile links if you want to know a user’s current accomplishments.)
See all the other Printables.com statistics pages on this blog.