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Behind the build: how each generator went from idea to something you can print.
The standee: a counter sign you design, print flat, and stand up
A large standing info sign with a logo, title, QR, and text, in a deep holder that stops it tipping. How the foot scales with height, why the spacing is grouped rather than even, and how the engraved QR stays scannable.
A name plate with a stand: print it flat, slide it together
A two-part desk name plate that prints flat with no supports and slides together. How the tilted channel holds the plate, why the slide fit needs half a millimetre of clearance, and the trick that keeps engraved letters from cracking the print.
Standing letters: your word, printed to stand on a shelf
A word you type, printed as solid two-colour letters on a base that stands it on a shelf. How it prints face-down for a smooth front, sits on its baseline, and why we shipped the plain version before the twist.
The WiFi plate: scan it and you are on the network
A 3D-printed plate whose QR joins your WiFi in one tap. The WIFI: payload, the escaping that quietly breaks, keeping a printed code scannable, and why office WiFi needs its own product.
The icon keychain: a symbol, your handle, and a word in front
Pick a symbol from a couple of hundred icons (or upload your own), add your handle, and now a word in front of it too. How the icon keychain turns a library pick into printable geometry.
One plate, five products: building the nameplate engine
Take the hole off a keychain and it becomes a nameplate. From that one idea came five products — a door sign, desk plate, ornament, fridge magnet, and plant marker — one builder, and one honest problem: you cannot 3D-print a magnet.
The vector keychain: bring your own design
Upload an SVG of a logo, monogram or icon and it becomes a 3D-printed keychain. The most open-ended mode we built, and open input is the hard part.
A keychain that plays a song: building the Spotify Code mode
How we turn an official Spotify Code into a 3D-printed keychain you can scan with the Spotify app to open a track. The live fetch, the SVG-to-plate geometry, and the scannability problem.
The QR keychain: a plastic object that does something when you point a phone at it
A 3D-printed keychain that opens a link, wifi, or contact card when scanned. The hard part: keeping a QR code scannable once it is a solid two-color print.
How we built the keychain configurator
A customer types a name, picks a font and a couple of colours, and watches a 3D keychain take shape in the browser. How we built it, from the widget to the print file.
Turning a typed name into one printable 3D object
How the disip name keychain turns typed letters into a single watertight 3D mesh — fonts to contours to print, and the cursive seam bug we had to fix.