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.

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.
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.
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”.
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.
This post is to consolidate my separate posts about various categories of statistics gathered from the printables.com 3-D printing database website.
Hopefully this will help you find excellent resources, models, and connections on printables.com.
Please comment if you have any suggestions or corrections.
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)
(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.
This is just a quick post indexing the identified Prusa Staff members on Printables.com as of February 2023:
(Yes, there are currently only ~13 identified.)
Honorable Mention:
(Level values are a snapshot, these values change constantly over time. Follow the profile links if you want to know their current accomplishments.)
As of February 2023, these are the most prolific model designers on printables.com:
9 – Grand Master (1000 models published) 1 user (<0.1%)
8 – Master (500 models published) 2 users (<0.1%)
7 – Expert (200 models) 38 users (<0.1%)
6 – Professional (100 models) 134 users (<0.1%)
5 – Seasoned (50 models) 486 users (0.2%)
4 – Advanced (25 models) 1,604 users (0.7%)
3 – Proficient (10 models) 6,768 users (2.8%)
2 – Beginner (5 models) 8,574 users (3.6%)
1 – Newcomer (1 model) 37,124 users (15.6%)
By inference ~77% of printables.com users haven’t published at least 1 model 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.
As of February 2023, on printables.com, these are the top “Download Maniacs”:
8 – Platinum (10k downloads) (<0.1%)
7 – Gold (5k downloads) 8 users (<0.1%)
6 – Silver (1k downloads) 111 users (<0.1%)
5 – Bronze (300 downloads) 1,060 users (0.4%)
4 – Copper (150 downloads) 4,139 users (1.7%)
3 – Brass (50 downloads) 27,633 users (11.6%)
2 – Tin (20 downloads) 57,654 users (24.2%)
1 – Iron (5 downloads) 129,993 users (54.7%)
By inference ~7.3% of printables.com users haven’t downloaded 5 models 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.