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Vases, Planters & Lampshades
Vases and lampshades are where 3D printing starts to look like design. These generators create twisted, wavy and faceted shapes that print in vase mode: one continuous wall, no infill, no seams, and often done in under two hours.
Silk and translucent filaments shine here. For lampshades, pair the print with a low-heat LED bulb.
Vases & Lamps
Parametric Liner Pot Generator
Popular MakerWorld customizer for plant liner pots sized to your plant
Vases & Lamps
Parametric Woven Pot
Customizable plant pot with woven texture and seven swappable foot styles
Vases & Lamps
LumHaus (MakerLab)
Design complete printable lamps: shade, base and socket, with live 3D preview
Vases & Lamps
PrintPal Vase Generator
Free browser vase maker with 12 presets, many profiles and textures
Vases & Lamps
Your Ideal Planter: Customizable Size
Planter customizer that keeps walls and drainage right at any size
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 colour lithophanes
Gifts
OmArTronics 3D Kollektion
Free browser studio for soundwave art, lithophane lamps, vases and planters
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Printing vases & lamps: what to buy
The generator does the design. These materials make the print look as good as the preview.
Silk PLA for vases and ornaments
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+Stronger layer adhesion than typical silk blends, so thin-walled ornaments are less brittle.
- Polymaker Panchroma Silk PLASuccessor to PolyLite Silk, reformulated to print faster and more reliably.
- eSUN PLA-SilkLong-running, affordable silk with a strong shine in many colours.
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 colours through stacked thin layers.
- Bambu Lab PLA TranslucentFrosted-glass finish aimed at lampshades, vases and light boxes.
- Polymaker Panchroma Translucent PLAPolymaker publishes a TD value for it, which you can enter straight into HueForge.
- Bambu Lab PETG TranslucentClearer and more heat-tolerant than PLA, so it suits shades that sit near a bulb.
LED backlighting for lithophane boxes
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 KitFlat 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)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)Cheapest route for light boxes; pick 2700-3000K warm white and a strip with an inline dimmer.
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