Printfila
Two of us, one printer, and a flat that’s filling up with prototypes. The first batch is nearly ready.
We design things that hold up.Shapes that print clean, without a forest of supports.Nothing that only works as a render.Colour you won’t find in a shop.
Everything gets lived with here first. If it warps in a warm room, or the layer lines catch the light wrong, it doesn’t leave the desk.
Printfila Designs
Files you can print yourself
Files you can print at home. An email gets you the STL and the settings we used; that is the whole transaction.
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A 3D model of the Stadium wall clock turning slowly: an orange rounded frame round an off-white dial with black numerals at 12, 3, 6 and 9 and black bar markers. Stadium Wall Clock V1
Still warmA wall clock shaped like a running track.
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A 3D model of the Mac mini Coaster Set pulled apart and turning slowly: the round foot at the bottom, the Mac mini-shaped container above it, the four coasters stacked above that with gaps between them, and the cap at the top. Mac mini Coaster Set V1
Still warmFour modifier keys, kept in a Mac mini.
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A 3D model of the macOS Folder Icon Mail Organizer turning slowly: a blue folder shape standing on a desk, made of a tall tabbed back panel and a shorter rounded front panel joined by a spine. macOS Folder Icon Mail Organizer V1
The folder icon, at desk scale, holding the post.
Printfila Generators
Name it.
Shape it.
Then we print it.
A real, printable model — built in your browser out of whatever you type into it. Fifteen shapes, six faces, fifteen colours, and a file that goes straight to the printer.
Shape
Colour
Continue with this tagA taster. The maker has all fifteen shapes, six letterings, two lines of text and every colour.
How it’s made
One layer
at a time
A 0.2 mm layer is about two sheets of paper. Something hand-sized is seven hundred of them, one on top of the last, on the one printer we own. That is most of why the first batch is taking a while.
- A Draw Modelled until the proportions stop annoying us.
- B Slice Walls and infill set for whatever the thing has to survive.
- C Print Hours of it. We watch the first layer, then leave it alone.
- D Finish Seam trimmed, brim cleaned off, then it gets handled and argued about.
Stay tuned
One email, when it’s ready
Leave an email and you’ll get one message when the first batch is ready to look at. There’s no newsletter. We wouldn’t keep one up anyway.