Max Funkner

Sniffing and stretching before the real work starts 🐶 The 3DMakerPro Raven has arrived. Looking forward to putting this LiDAR spatial scanner through its paces. Please share your results and ideas here.

Planning a room makeover, home renovation, or interior design idea? This space is for sharing free and beginner-friendly tools for virtual home design, floor planning, room styling, and visualization. We recently updated our guide to free home design and renovation apps, covering tools for room layouts, 3D interiors, furniture placement, color ideas, and quick visual planning: https://3dwithus.com/the-best-free-virtual-home-design-and-renovation-apps Feel free to post your own projects, screenshots, room ideas, or questions here. Whether you are testing Planner 5D, HomeByMe, Roomstyler, Floorplanner, SketchUp Free, or AI-based visualization tools, it would be great to see what works well and what doesn’t.

I recently visited TCT 3Sixty in Birmingham, UK, where I noticed new flexible materials becoming available from consumer filament brands. One example was PEBA by eSUN, shown here as a 3D printed bicycle handle grip. It had a very nice, soft feel. The Adidas 4D shoes displayed at the Carbon stand also had a pleasant, velvety texture. I know these shoes can be expensive. Even printing your own pair on an FDM 3D printer can quickly add up once you factor in quality TPU, failed prints, machine costs, and the time required to get good results. However, this area is moving rapidly, and the collection of free, high-quality shoe designs available for FDM 3D printing continues to grow. Another area of interest for me is scanning our own feet to make them more comfortable. If all goes well, I may try some scanners soon. This one is VivoBiom by VivoBareFoot.

Awesome guide. Very thorough project. This kind of stuff is worth publishing as an article on the main website. I could ask SUNLU to send you 2 spools of PETG this time instead of PLA. Do you have specific requests? (Sorry for waiting patiently until the end of the month.)

Revopoint POP 4 hands-on testing: I scanned feet for a scan-to-print shoe-stretcher experiment, tested color scanning, and even used purge towers from 3D printing as DIY marker blocks. This time, I also featured the Snapmaker U1 extensively. Purge towers proved surprisingly useful as marker blocks for 3D scanning. As for the printed foot… Halloween came early.

No spare printers here. Do you want one filament spool? We giveaway them this month.

The new @Creality3dP Sermoon P1 just arrived for hands-on testing. Teddy already completed the mandatory sniff test 🐾 and seems cautiously optimistic.

Finally completed the 3D Printed Shoes guide. Did some hands-on testing, talked to people wearing them, and explored both fully printed footwear and hybrid lattice designs. One thing I still need to complete is printing my own pair at home. https://3dwithus.com/3d-printed-shoes-guide As usual, I’ll keep updating this guide when needed as the technology evolves and more designs appear. If you think something should be added, feel free to post it below or start a new thread.

Less than a month to go until #TCT3sixty. I’ll be attending again this year, so come and say hello. If there’s anything you’d like me to cover, feel free to comment or DM. We’re proud to be a partner of TCT 3Sixty, taking place 2–4 June 2026 at the NEC Birmingham. See you there: https://invt.io/1lxbjtqt86w

While the Revopoint POP 4 campaign has already broken past the $2M mark, I’ve received both the POP 4 and Metro Y Ultra for hands-on testing. Teddy, as usual, gave the packages a few barks and sniffs before approving them. Testing starts soon. Update: Hands-on testing review article is live: https://3dwithus.com/revopoint-pop-4-review-hands-on-3d-scanning-tests Feel free to ask if you want any specific test, comparison, or scan example.

Thank you. Good point! Fixed.

As of 08/26/25, we have over 200 spools listed 🤯 That's a very nice list, thanks! I will add the link to the guide as well!

Added another calculator and guide. 🧮 This one helps estimate how much filament is left on partially used spools before printing. https://3dwithus.com/filament-remaining-calculator Want to share spool weights or calculator suggestions? Welcome to join!

Don't be shy, share the link ❤️

Sorry, bad wording. Around ten years ago, 3D Hubs was a platform where anyone with a 3D printer could register, set up their own workshop, and offer 3D printing services. It was quite a big thing in the maker community at the time.

Finally, the weather cooperated, and we had a great day out with Teddy, and we gave PollyFab’s Airpuff One Pro 3D printed shoes a proper test along the way.

Hi Rubio, thanks for sharing the story, it’s a solid example of how 3D printing can help bring a product to market quickly and on a tight budget. The book you mentioned might be a useful resource as well. I tend to trust publications that have 3D Hubs involved, it was a solid platform back in the day. In fact, 3DWithUs was registered there in the early days, and we’ve already reviewed one of their books.

Pretty impressed with the choice of test models included. Could not stop printing one after another. Might give some clues on how to slice my own models. Featured models: Snapmaker, Lucky13toys, JINQITOYS

Hi Mark, 1400 hours is quite a run already. Good to hear you’re getting great prints out of it. Hopefully, the replacement parts sort things out long term. As far as I know, Will had this machine for evaluation, but I’m not sure if he continued using it beyond testing. It would be interesting to hear how others are getting on with it, too.

What is scarier than a DeathRacer? A Battle Hardened DeathRacer! This one became a real hero across a few guides and made it onto Sketchfab. EinstarOfficial Rockit did a great job capturing the punches and bruises on this beast. Hands-on: https://3dwithus.com/einstar-rockit-3d-scanner-review

Update: Here is the reply from the Elegoo representative: Thanks for forwarding this question. I asked the sales team, who told me this is not for sale at the moment. You may tell users to contact support here: https://www.elegoo.com/pages/contact-support

Hi Henry, thank you for sharing your experience. That does sound frustrating, especially with both assembly issues and the broken acrylic part. I will ask my EiBOS contact about it and see whether a replacement part or another solution is available.

New PollyFab 3D printed shoes just arrived. Unfortunately, our Chief Inspector Teddy is currently on light duty after surgery… but still insisted on supervising the unboxing 🐶 These are Airpuff One Pro (Orange) and Airpuff One.

Thanks! Great work, the way you aligned the music is spot on. I wish you were on socials, I would tag you there too 🙂 Really appreciate you sharing this, I am sure SUNLU (and Anycubic) will love it. You can now find your video across the 3DWithUs socials. Here is the YouTube Short as an example:

Nice video. Time-lapse is very clean. Is it an Anycubic Kobra S1 native time-lapse video? Did you share this video on socials? Can I share it on 3DWithUs (https://linktr.ee/3DWithUs) social media channels?