SNOWFLAKE3D

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Make a snowflake, add a personal centre and prepare it for printing.

Make your first snowflake

1. Choose how many designs to generate, from 1 to 24, then select Generate another.
2. Pick a thumbnail to refine that design. Adjust diameter, body thickness, complexity, fullness and branch thickness. More growth options lets you choose an outline.
3. Choose a centre shape, or select Text to add a word.
4. Choose your build-plate dimensions and read the fit message. The check includes the hanging loop and a 2 mm edge margin.
5. Download STL or 3MF, open it in your slicer and inspect the sliced preview before printing.

Drag the preview or use its rotation controls to change your view. This does not rotate the exported geometry.

Centre text

All text layouts have a centre shape, so branches join that shape rather than bending towards individual letters. Each layout offers a random shape, a hexagon or a circle.

• Open frame + joined text: connected letters span an open frame, with short joins at the ends and no support bar. Use one colour or optional AMS text.
• Solid centre + AMS text: letters sit flush within a solid centre. Two-colour mode is enabled automatically.
• Raised text: letters rise 0.6 mm above a solid centre. Use one filament or optional AMS text. The back stays flat.

Use up to 12 characters: letters, numbers, spaces, apostrophes or hyphens. Common accented letters are simplified. Script fonts generally work best with mixed-case words. If the text-size check fails, enlarge the centre or snowflake, or shorten the word. Raised letters add 0.6 mm to your selected body thickness.

STL or 3MF?

STL contains one merged mesh, including raised geometry. It does not carry colour assignments or printer settings.

3MF contains geometry and named parts. It does not include printer, process or filament profiles or machine G-code. A “geometry only” message on import is expected. AMS text remains a separate aligned part, so you can assign it a different filament.

Importing into Bambu Studio

1. Select your own printer and nozzle. Choose your material and a suitable process, such as 0.20 mm Standard.
2. Open a 3MF. Accept a geometry-only import if prompted. Keep it as one object with its aligned parts; do not separate or move the text away from the body.
3. For two-colour text, add two project filaments. In the Objects list, assign the snowflake/body part to filament 1 and only the centre-text part to filament 2. Set the colours and map your AMS slots. Assignments or colours may need setting manually after import.
4. Check dimensions, plate fit, purge settings and the prime tower. Slice and inspect Preview: only the centre letters should use the second filament.

Flush and open-frame letters extend through the body thickness and can require a filament change on every layer. Raised lettering uses the second filament only above the solid backing, which can reduce colour changes. Always inspect your own sliced result.

Other slicers may interpret material and part metadata differently. Confirm alignment and assignments; printer compatibility is not guaranteed by the selected build-plate dimensions.

Download several designs

Under ZIP designs, choose all generated designs, the current design or selected thumbnails. Under ZIP files, choose STL, 3MF or both. The ZIP holds separate numbered files, setup instructions and a designs.json manifest with settings and share links. It does not arrange all designs on one print plate.

Seeds and design links

A seed and the design settings reproduce the design within the current generator. Copy design link puts those settings in a shareable URL. This is not a private account or a cloud save: the link contains readable encoded settings, including any entered text. Keep your downloaded files if you need to preserve a print exactly; generator updates can change older layouts.

Why is a download disabled?

The snowflake may exceed the chosen build plate or its lettering may be too small. Read the message beside the downloads. Reduce the diameter, choose a larger plate, enlarge the centre or shorten the word as appropriate. The hanging loop counts towards the fit check.

Keeping designs airy

Try a larger diameter or thinner branches before increasing complexity further. Complexity adds detail where space allows; fullness changes how broadly branches spread. Fine details can be delicate, so check your slicer and test with your printer and material.

Usage and privacy

Generated files and printed objects are for private, non-commercial use only. Snowflake3D is independent and not endorsed by Bambu Lab, MakerWorld or MakerLab. Read Privacy & cookies for design links, enquiries and optional analytics. The enquiry form is for privacy requests; general printing support is not currently offered.