Vases & Lamps
Make My Vase (MakerLab)
Bambu Lab's click-and-drag vase designer with spiral vase mode
Vases & Lamps · 51 generators · 40 free
Vase, planter and lamp generators
A vase generator builds a printable vase, planter or lampshade from a profile, a surface texture and a few measurements, so you can 3D print a shape nobody else has without opening CAD.
The 20 most popular vase, planter and lampshade generators compared
See all 51| Generator | Best for | Price | Account | Exports | Multicolor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ItsLitho | Photo gifts, lamp shades and night lights | Freemium | Not needed | STL | No |
| Lithophane Maker | Lithophanes that fit an existing lamp or night light | Free | Not needed | STL | Yes |
| Make My Vase (MakerLab) | Quick decorative vases for Bambu printers | Free | Needed | 3MF | No |
| Custom LED Name Light Box (MakerSky) | Light-up name signs for kids' rooms and gifts | Free | Needed | 3MF, STL | Yes |
| Lightbox Name Generator | Light-up name signs for kids' rooms, desks and events | Free | Needed | STL, 3MF | Yes |
| Parametric Liner Pot Generator | Liner pots that fit your existing planters | Free | Needed | STL, 3MF | No |
| Parametric Woven Pot | Decorative planters in exact sizes | Free | Needed | STL, 3MF | No |
| 3dSynth | Textured vase-mode vases, planters and lamp shades | Freemium | Not needed | STL, OBJ, GLB | No |
| LumHaus (MakerLab) | Complete desk and pendant lamps | Freemium | Needed | 3MF, STL | No |
| Make My Lantern (MakerLab) | Figure-shaped tea light lanterns and night-light gifts | Free | Needed | STL, 3MF | No |
| Meshcast Planter Generator | Turning a figurine or statue into a small plant pot | Freemium | Not needed | STL, 3MF | No |
| PrintPal Vase Generator | Decorative vases with bold textures | Free | Not needed | STL | No |
| Vextrude Lithophane Maker | Shaped photo gifts, ornaments and small night lights | Free | Not needed | STL | No |
| Voronator | Giving a model you already have an open Voronoi look | Free | Not needed | STL, PLY | No |
| Your Ideal Planter: Customizable Size | Functional planters for specific spots | Free | Needed | STL, 3MF | No |
| 3D-Machine | Free home and gift prints from one hobby site | Free | Not needed | STL, 3MF | Yes |
| Designer Bee Lithophane Generator | Quick photo gifts and night lights for beginners | Free | Not needed | STL | No |
| ilove3d | Many quick generators in one free, private toolbox | Free | Not needed | STL, 3MF, OBJ, GLB | Yes |
| Jack-o-Gen | A Halloween jack-o'-lantern or candy bowl with your own face | Free | Not needed | STL, 3MF | Yes |
| Lamp Maker | A decorative lamp around a Bambu LED puck | Free | Not needed | STL | No |
All 51 vase, planter and lampshade generators
Vases & Lamps
Custom LED Name Light Box (MakerSky)
Letter-shaped LED light box for any name, generated from your text in MakerWorld's customizer
Vases & Lamps
Lightbox Name Generator
Name-shaped light box with a two-color lid and a hole for LED wiring, made from your text
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Parametric Liner Pot Generator
Popular MakerWorld customizer for plant liner pots sized to your plant
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Parametric Woven Pot
Customizable plant pot with woven texture and seven swappable foot styles
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3dSynth
Shapes textured vases and lamp shades with sliders, then exports vase-mode G-code or STL
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LumHaus (MakerLab)
Design complete printable lamps: shade, base and socket, with live 3D preview
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Make My Lantern (MakerLab)
Turns a picture of an animal or object into a hollow, patterned lantern shade
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Meshcast Planter Generator
Turns your own STL into a planter with a planting hole, drainage hole, feet and a drip tray
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PrintPal Vase Generator
Free browser vase maker with presets, profile curves and surface textures
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Your Ideal Planter: Customizable Size
Planter customizer that keeps walls and drainage right at any size
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Jack-o-Gen
Free, open-source jack-o'-lantern designer: shape the pumpkin, drag the face, download an STL or two-color 3MF
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Lamp Maker
Free lampshade and base designer for the Bambu LED puck or E27 and E14 bulbs, STL export, no account
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Lamp Shade Designer
Free lamp shade designer with a drawn silhouette, perforation and a lit preview, plus a fitter as STL or STEP
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Lampshade Studio
Free browser lampshade designer with patterns, perforations, a lit preview and E27 or E14 fittings, as STL or 3MF
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Lathe
Fluted vases, twist lamp shades and ribbed desk bins you shape by dragging the profile in 3D; free STL, no account
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LumaForm
Browser designer for vase-mode lampshades with E27 and E14 fittings, sold as paid STL downloads
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Metikumi Function Playground
Free browser app that builds wavy, ribbed or twisted vases from math blocks on a 4x4 grid
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MiniForge Vase Studio
Parametric vases and planters with textures, drainage holes, saucers and a vase-mode preview
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PlantXYZ Pot Generator
Plant pots in 13 styles, sized in mm, with an optional saucer and water chamber
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PotGen
Planter pots and matching drip trays with patterns, drainage holes and custom sizes
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Shadecaster
Free shadow lamp dome that throws your uploaded silhouette onto the wall over a tea light, as STL
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Tenebrae
Free studio for two-shell shadow lamps that throw moiré patterns on the ceiling, as STL or laser-cut SVG and DXF
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Tomoshibi
Free mold kit generator for washi paper lanterns: shape the silhouette, download the STL set, no account
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twirly
Free twisted, ribbed shapes with open or pointed tops: candy bowls, vases, garlic bulbs and ice-cream swirls as STL
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VASE 3D
Browser studio for shaping vases, jars and teapots like clay, with lids, handles and patterns, exported as STL or 3MF
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Vase Craft (3D PrintCraft)
Vases with patterns printed in filament colors, exported as a colored 3MF for an AMS; paid plan
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Vase Creator
Shape a vase or plant pot by dragging points on its outline, then download it as an OBJ
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VaseMaker
Free vase designer with 29 cross-sections, shape morphing and 13 textures, plus a plaster slip-casting mold maker
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VaseMorph
Random or slider-tuned vases and bowls with patterns and twist, saved as STL or OBJ
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Vaseverse
Free browser studio for vases, planters with saucers, Gridfinity bins and hydroponic towers
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VASEWORKS
Free vase-mode studio that shows layers, filament, weight and print time for vases, tumblers and planters as STL
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VesselMaker
Browser vase, bowl and planter designer with stacked modifiers, a reshape cage and print checks
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Voronoi Lamp Generator
Free lamp shades, globes and vases cut with Voronoi openings, with a light-on shadow preview; STL and flat SVG pattern
Lithophanes
ItsLitho
Browser lithophane designer with many shapes, an image editor and a backlit preview
Lithophanes
Lithophane Maker
Specialist lithophane site for lamps, night lights, globes and color lithophanes
Lithophanes
Vextrude Lithophane Maker
Free browser tool that turns photos into lithophane STLs in 22 shapes, lamps included
Customizers
3D-Machine
Free hobby site with 14 browser generators for vases, planters, frames, Gridfinity and gifts, STL or 3MF, no sign-up
Lithophanes
Designer Bee Lithophane Generator
Free browser tool that turns a photo into a flat, curved or cylinder lithophane STL
Customizers
ilove3d
Free browser toolbox with about 20 print generators plus file tools, no account and no uploads
Signs & Text
LED Craft (3D PrintCraft)
Printable housings for illuminated letters, flex neon and light boxes from text or SVG, with an LED strip estimate
Lithophanes
Lithophane Maker (3D MakerBench)
Free browser lithophane maker: flat panels, curved frames, lamp shades, moon lamps, night light boxes and keychains
Lithophanes
Lithophane Studio (metiutek)
Free flat, curved or cylinder lamp lithophanes from a photo, as STL or OBJ, all in your browser, no account
Customizers
Moldy
Beta mold maker that turns your 3D file into printable parts for a silicone or plaster mold, with instructions
Signs & Text
MS Letter Studio
Free browser studio that turns text or SVG artwork into printable 3D letters and lightbox signs, body and face included
Gifts
OmArTronics 3D Kollektion
Free browser studio for soundwave art, lithophane lamps, vases and planters
Lithophanes
Photo Moon Lamp Generator (3D MakerBench)
Free moon lithophane lamp with your photo blended into the craters, plus an LED stand or hanging cap, as STL
Puzzles & Games
Shapemaker
Free browser tool for geometric solids, ring balls and lantern shells sized in millimeters
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About vase, planter and lampshade generators
PrintPal Vase Generator and Make My Vase can both set a vase up for vase mode: one continuous outer wall with no infill and no top layers, which prints quickly and leaves no visible seam.
The tools fall into three groups. For decorative vases, PrintPal Vase Generator runs in the browser with no sign-up and offers ten presets, twists of up to 720 degrees and textures such as ribs, honeycomb and dragon scales, while Make My Vase in Bambu Lab's MakerLab adds a draw mode for sketching your own shape. For planters, MakerWorld customizers such as Your Ideal Planter, Parametric Woven Pot and the Parametric Liner Pot Generator size a pot to your plant and keep the walls sensible at any size. For lamps, LumHaus designs a shade and a base with a socket fitting, and lithophane tools such as Litho-Lamp wrap your photos around a shade.
Silk and translucent filaments suit this category. Use LED bulbs in printed lampshades, because PLA softens at around 60 °C, and buy the socket, cable and bulb separately.
Vases & Lamps: what to buy
The generator does the design. These materials make the print look as good as the preview.
Silk PLA for a glossy finish
Silk PLA's glossy, metallic sheen turns simple vase-mode prints and ornaments into gift-worthy pieces with no painting or post-processing.
- Bambu Lab PLA Silk+ (affiliate link) Stronger layer adhesion than typical silk blends, so thin-walled ornaments are less brittle.
- Polymaker Panchroma Silk PLA (affiliate link) Successor to PolyLite Silk, reformulated to print faster and more reliably. In Europe? Buy from 3DJake (affiliate link)
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- eSUN PLA-Silk (affiliate link) Long-running, affordable silk with a strong shine in many colors. In Europe? Buy from 3DJake (affiliate link)
Translucent filament for lampshades and light boxes
Translucent filament diffuses light instead of blocking it, so lampshades glow evenly, and it lets HueForge prints mix colors through stacked thin layers.
- Bambu Lab PLA Translucent (affiliate link) Frosted-glass finish aimed at lampshades, vases and light boxes.
- Polymaker Panchroma Translucent PLA (affiliate link) Polymaker publishes a TD value for it, which you can enter straight into HueForge. In Europe? Buy from 3DJake (affiliate link)
- Bambu Lab PETG Translucent (affiliate link) Clearer and more heat-tolerant than PLA, so it suits shades that sit near a bulb.
LED strips for backlighting
Even, warm backlighting brings out the full tonal range of a lithophane, and a USB 5V source keeps the build simple and safe inside a printed frame.
- Bambu Lab Lithophane LED Backlight Board Kit Flat 5V LED boards in 2- or 4-board kits with a USB cable, on/off switch and long-press dimming, sized for printed lithophane frames.
- BTF-LIGHTING DC5V USB FCOB LED Strip (3000K warm white) (affiliate link) Dotless COB strip (320 LEDs/m, Ra90) so thin lithophanes show no hotspots; USB-powered and dimmable.
- USB 5V warm white LED strip with inline dimmer (generic) (affiliate link) Cheapest route for light boxes; pick 2700-3000K warm white and a strip with an inline dimmer.
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Vases & Lamps: common questions
What is vase mode in 3D printing?
Vase mode, also called spiral vase or Spiralize Outer Contour, prints a model as one continuous outer wall that rises in a slow spiral. The slicer keeps the solid bottom layers but drops infill and top layers, so there is no visible seam and the print is quick. Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer and Cura all offer it.
Can a vase mode print hold water?
Not always, because a single wall can leak between layers. Prusa's slicer guide suggests widening the external perimeter extrusion width, for example from 0.45 to 0.6 mm, for a thicker and more watertight vase. Test it with water in a sink first, and put a glass or jar inside if the vase is for cut flowers.
Is it safe to use a 3D printed lampshade?
It can be, with an LED bulb and a gap between bulb and shade. Prusa notes that PLA gets soft and deforms above about 60 °C, and it rates PETG for use below 80 °C, so avoid hot incandescent and halogen bulbs. LumHaus designs the shade and base, but the socket, cable and bulb are parts you buy yourself.
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