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I needed a replacement hinge for the glass lid of my turntable, but the original design was too weak for the job. I redesigned and tested the hinge through several iterations. The final version was strengthened around the load-bearing areas, uses five interlocking hinge tabs, a 3 mm hinge pin, and a 5.3 mm slot for the 5 mm glass panel. One of the biggest challenges was getting the glass clearance right while keeping enough material on the opposite wall for strength. I also added a 5 mm solid reinforced section at the bottom of the glass slot and redistributed material between the two sides of the hinge. A few prototypes were necessary before everything fitted correctly, but the final print now fits the glass properly, moves smoothly and feels significantly stronger than the first version. This is exactly why I enjoy functional 3D printing: instead of searching for an unavailable replacement part, you can measure, redesign, print, test and improve it until it works. I’ll add photos of the printed hinge and the final installation on the turntable.

Hi everyone, I'm Chris from Austria. For a while now I've been working on a side project that came out of my own frustration. Whenever I looked for a model, I ended up with Thingiverse, Printables, MakerWorld and Cults open in different tabs, typing the same search four times. So I built 3DSEARCH, which searches all of them at once. It now covers almost 9.7 million models from 11 sites: MakerWorld, Thingiverse, Printables, Cults3D, Creality Cloud, Sketchfab, GrabCAD, Thangs, MakerOnline, MyMiniFactory and NexPrint. Every result links to the original page, so the designers keep their downloads and likes. I don't host any files myself. What you can do with it: Filter by platform, category and free/paid Search by image: upload a photo or screenshot and it looks for similar models See when the same model is on several sites, and follow designers across platforms Trends: what's taking off right now across all sites, plus a list of current design contests Save models into collections Since this is the design section: there are also generators that make a printable file right in the browser. They cover boxes to your measurements, Gridfinity bins, keychains and name tags, QR codes, lithophanes and, right now, Christmas ornaments. The site also has a print cost calculator, a slicer that runs in the browser (Kiri:Moto) and a "print doctor" that helps you work out why a print failed. The newest part is still in beta: printer and filament management. You connect your printer (Bambu, Anycubic, Creality, Elegoo, Prusa, Klipper machines, OctoPrint, Flashforge with ZMOD), and your spools are updated automatically after each print. There's a catalog of 8,000+ filaments and QR labels for your spools. With Anycubic, Prusa, Klipper and OctoPrint printers you can also slice with OrcaSlicer and start the print from the browser. The search itself is free and works without an account. It's available in 6 languages and as an Android app. I'd love feedback from people who actually print: which site is missing, which filter would you want, what annoys you? https://3dsearch.net Cheers, Chris

I'm part of the team developing LUOYING A1, a compact top-down resin printer. I'd like to share a few physical photos and ask which print sample would make the hardware easier to evaluate. The platform moves down into the vat, with layers formed at the resin surface. Our design combines resin replenishment, laser level feedback and blade recoating, without a release-film peeling step. The attached photos show front-view assembly, parts in the workspace and a physical test piece on the platform. These are separate from our design renders and animation. For a future sample set, I'm considering showing the same small part at several positions on the platform, together with the actual resin, orientation, settings and post-processing used. I'd also include close-ups with a scale reference. That is a proposed comparison, not a repeatability or accuracy result. Which features would you find most informative in that sample: holes, thin walls, raised lettering or a combination? If there is a part you routinely use to reveal a resin printer's limitations, I'd be interested in what it helps you observe. Disclosure: this is our own product project. Project context and more photos: https://luoying3d.pages.dev/ The photos are ours; this English text was prepared with AI writing assistance. No dimensional accuracy, resin compatibility or completed-test claim is being made.

4 250 gram Yousu glow in the dark TPU been sent to try ( yellow purple green blue) will post prints after I’ve tried it. Should be interesting to try print with glow TPU.