If you're printing straight from MakerWorld profiles and never touching settings, you are probably getting good results; but you're leaving a lot on the table. An example you can use today One of the first thing I always look at when I open a print from MakerWorld is the Sparse Infill. ❓What is Sparse Infill? Sparse Infill is the type of linework that goes inside the body of the model, giving it structure, strength and ensuring the walls have something to anchor to. You can control the Infill Pattern as well as the Infill % (plus a bunch of others but we will cover that another time). I attached an example of the 3 different infill patterns (Grid, Gyroid and Honeycomb) as well as 3 examples of Sparse Infill density and how it would look inside a cube model. ⬆️ The higher the value = the more filament it uses and the stronger the model become. 💪🏼 ⬇️ The lower the value = less filament is used and you can lose some strength. 🫰🏼 Always keep your sparse infill above 5% and you rarely need to increase it past 15% except for models that will take on stress like shelves, brackets etc. That's one thing out of a full free course: 3D Printing 101 — Level Up Your Bambu Studio Skills. It's free, and like the rest of the free library it opens at Level 2 — which you reach just by being active here. Comment on this or anything else and you're on your way! 🔰 If you've been printing a while: what's the setting you learned late that you wish you'd known on day one?

⌨️ Press Win + V. That's it, that's the tip. If you've never done it, do it now — you'll get a panel with everything you've copied recently, not just the last thing. Text, images, all of it. 🤯 Why it's genuinely a workflow change and not a party trick: it kills the copy-paste-go-back-copy-again loop entirely. Pulling three settings out of one document into another becomes one trip instead of three. You can pin the items you use constantly so they survive a restart. It handles images, so screenshots stack up rather than overwriting each other. And it'll paste as plain text, which means no more fighting formatting that came along for the ride. If you have to turn it on the first time, Windows will prompt you the first time you hit the shortcut. That's one of five in 5 Windows 11 OS Tips to Save You Time & Money — a Quick Win, about fifteen minutes, and it's part of Premium ($5/mo or $50/yr, which covers every paid course). The other four are the same shape: things already on your machine that give you time back permanently. Did you already know about Win+V, or is this new? I'm curious what the split is — it's the tip that gets the biggest reaction when I show people in person.

👉🏼I’ve been having a lot of fun figuring out how to use my 3D printer in my business. These photos show the progression of my new Perfume Oil Sample Set. I started with a box file from MakerWorld, then used ChatGPT to design and redesign the removable insert that holds my six perfume oil bottles.😁 📷Each redesign brought the insert closer to what I needed. The bottle spacing, overall fit and presentation were all adjusted until the set came together the way I had pictured it. I printed the box using Bambu Lab PLA Matte in Latte and PLA in White. I really like how the soft Latte colour looks with the clean white insert. (These are also my brand colours...kraft paper brown, white and lilac)) 🥳What I’m enjoying most about 3D printing is being able to take an existing design and adapt it for a completely different purpose in my business. I didn’t have to settle for packaging that was almost right. I could create an insert specifically for my products. Now I have a reusable Perfume Oil Sample Set that looks polished, keeps the bottles secure and fits my business beautifully. What do you guys think?

I have been prepping for the University District Night Market that is today (Sept 23rd) here in Calgary and this is my first market so I am going in somewhat blind. Thankfully, I have my H2D Laser Combo which I am using to design and craft all my own signage for the market. And in the background I am staining boards and printing brackets / parts from STLFlix for my displays (https://platform.stlflix.com/product/fair-vendor). [Video provided by STLFlix] Without my 3d printers, I would be buying all the displays premade and making with what I can put together. But with access to a large variety of files on MakerWorld but also through my other Subscriptions like STLFlix, I can customize my booth and make it feel like my own. I purchased a rare lifetime access to STLFlix in the early days and I DON'T regret it one bit, I will share pictures once it’s all up and ready for prime time; in the mean time here are a few snapshots of what I am working on!