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The PrintPal LED Lamp Maker is a free browser tool for designing 3D printed lamps that fit the LED Lamp Kit 001 — the Ø59.4 mm × 8 mm warm-white USB puck sold by Bambu Lab (MH001) and the many compatible dimmable kits on Amazon and AliExpress. Start from one of seven lamp styles modelled on the most-printed LED kit lamps — wave fins, spiral grooves, a woven basket, layered contours, a block cube, a crystal mountain and a spotlight stand — and make it yours with a few sliders. Prefer a sculpture? Describe anything or drop a photo, and the AI sculpts it as a solid shape that the tool hollows into a lamp shade, with optional cracks, slices or stars cut into it. Every design gets a matching base with the LED kit pocket, cable slot, screw pilot holes and a locating ring, a lit preview, and a multi-color 3MF or STL export. No CAD skills needed, and no supports for any of the designed styles.
The base has a Ø60.4 mm × 8.6 mm pocket so the puck drops in face-up and sits flush, a 5.2 mm cable slot to the back edge, two Ø2.6 mm pilot holes 28 mm apart for the kit's BT3×12 screws, and a 4 mm locating ring the shade presses onto. Other round puck lights work too — type in their diameter and height.
Each style shows only the controls that matter for it: fins and wave, diamonds and opening, plates and organic edges, blocks and stagger, peaks and ridges, or the centerpiece under the spotlight. The round styles add silhouette presets, a draggable profile and footprints. Surprise me rolls a fresh variation in one click.
The rules are built into the geometry rather than checked afterwards: fins never lean past 45°, basket diamonds are taller than wide, contour plates have 45° undersides, the block cube prints upside down so its seams are short bridges, and the spotlight stand's parts print flat. The tool confirms every part is a single watertight solid before you export.
Type a prompt or upload any STL, OBJ or GLB. The model is scaled to fit over the LED kit, hollowed to your wall thickness with a signed-distance offset, opened at the bottom and placed on the same base. Cut cracks, slices or stars into it, open or as thin glow windows, for a cracked-face or layered-bust look — or stand it under the Spotlight Stand.
Every part goes out in print orientation. The 3MF tags each part with its filament slot using the painting scheme Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer read, so it opens with colours pre-assigned; the STL ZIP includes a README with print settings and assembly steps for your exact design.
| Style | In the spirit of | What you control | How it prints |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wave Fins | WaveGlow parametric lamp | Fins, fin depth, wave, twist, silhouette, footprint | Upright; vase mode works |
| Spiral Grooves | Spiral Lamp | Grooves, groove depth, swirl, lean, silhouette, footprint | Upright; vase mode works |
| Woven Basket | Rectangular Twisted Lamp with Basket Structure | Diamonds around, opening, weave relief, twist | Upright; every diamond edge is steeper than 45° |
| Layered Contours | David Lamp | Layers, plate depth, organic edges | Upright; each plate has a 45° underside |
| Block Cube | CubeStack Desk Lamp | Blocks per side, seam width, stagger | Upside down; seams are short bridges |
| Crystal Summit | Crystal Summit Desk Lamp | Peaks, ridges | Upright; thin gullies glow like a lithophane |
| Spotlight Stand | Rose Lamp, Welder LED Lamp | Centerpiece under the light: a crystal cluster, your own 3D model or an AI sculpture; diamond-grid stage | Arm on its side, head upright, base and crystals flat |
| AI sculpture | Cracking Face Wall Lamp | Prompt or photo, wall, cracks, slices, stars, glow windows | Upright with tree supports under overhangs |
| Part | Default | Why |
|---|---|---|
| LED pocket | Ø60.4 mm, 8.6 mm deep, open at the top | The Kit 001 puck is Ø59.4 × 8 mm; 0.5 mm radial clearance drops in without force and the lens sits flush with the base top so light reaches the whole shade |
| Cable slot | 5.2 mm wide from the pocket to the back edge, open from the pocket floor up through the ring | The USB plug is wider than the cable, so the cable is laid in from above instead of threaded through a tunnel; the shade rim hides the slot |
| Screw pilot holes | 2 × Ø2.6 mm, 6 mm deep, 28 mm apart, in line across the slot | Matches the two Ø4 mm holes in the puck's back plate; the BT3 self-tapping screws bite into PLA. The kit's adhesive pad works too |
| Locating ring | 1.6 mm wall, 4 mm tall, 0.1 mm inside the shade's inner outline, with a 0.4 mm step at the top | The step starts the shade on, then it presses over the ring and holds; no glue, so you can still swap shades on one base |
| Shade wall | 1.6 mm (1.2–3 mm); sculptures 1 mm (0.8–4 mm) | Four 0.4 mm lines: sturdy, and thin enough that the whole shade glows. Fins, ridges and plates only add material outward. Sculptures are hollowed to two lines so their deep, rounded shapes still glow brightly; the wall is measured exactly at the surface, so it never pinches thinner than you set |
| Minimum shade bottom | Inner outline at least Ø66 mm | Has to clear the puck pocket and the ring; the width slider and profile editor stop you going smaller |
| Glow windows | 0.8 mm membrane on the inside of each cutout (sculptures) | Two 0.4 mm perimeters: strong enough to print, thin enough to glow |
| Diffuser cup | About Ø61 mm, 1 mm wall, closed top, optional | Sits inside the ring over the puck and hides the LED hot spot behind open windows. Print in white or natural PETG |
| Spotlight head and arm | Open-top head the puck presses into from above: a Ø60 mm pocket with six crush ribs, a lip around a Ø48 mm lens window and a cable slot open at the top of the back wall; a centred cable groove along the top of the arm and down the back of the post; press-fit tenons with 0.05 mm clearance | The cable is laid in, never threaded, so the kit's switch and USB plug don't have to pass through a hole. The head prints upright, the cable stays out of sight behind the post, and the groove's 45° V walls let the arm print on its side without supports with the cable settled in the centre |
Spotlight Stand: stand the head on the table and drop the puck in from the top, lens down, with its cable over the slot at the back; press it past the ribs onto the lip and lay the cable in the slot. Press the head onto the arm's top tenon and the arm's foot into the slot in the base, press the cable into the groove that runs down the middle of the arm's top and the back of the post, lay it in the channel at the back of the base, then stand the centerpiece on the stage.
Yes. Designing shades, cutting patterns, the base, the lit preview and both exports are free and run in your browser; uploading your own 3D sculpture is free as well. Generating a sculpture from a text prompt or photo with AI uses PrintPal AI credits or a Pro / Studio subscription, like our other AI generators.
The default is the LED Lamp Kit 001 (Bambu Lab Maker's Supply MH001): a Ø59.4 mm, 8 mm tall USB-powered warm-white puck with two mounting holes 28 mm apart and a side cable exit. The dimmable 3-colour clones sold on Amazon and AliExpress as “LED Lamp Kit 001” share the same housing. For any other round puck light, choose Other round puck light and type its diameter and height.
Seven designed styles — Wave Fins, Spiral Grooves, Woven Basket, Layered Contours, Block Cube, Crystal Summit and Spotlight Stand — inspired by popular LED kit lamps such as the WaveGlow, David, CubeStack, Crystal Summit, Rose and Welder lamps, plus any sculpture you generate with AI or upload. Each style has its own sliders, and Surprise me rolls new variations.
No, not the designed styles. Their geometry is generated within 45° overhang rules, the Block Cube prints upside down so its seams bridge, and the Spotlight Stand is split into parts that each print flat. Only AI and uploaded sculptures usually need tree supports under their overhangs, and the 3MF switches them on for those parts only.
Yes, for Wave Fins and Spiral Grooves: slicers in spiral / vase mode trace only the outer wall, so fins, grooves, twist and footprints all come through. The other styles have windows, plates or blocks and need normal mode with 2–3 walls.
For sculptures with cracks, slices or stars, the pattern can be cut down to a 0.8 mm membrane on the inside of the shade instead of all the way through. Light shines through the thin spots — like a lithophane — while dust and the LED stay sealed inside. Switching them on thickens the wall to 1.6 mm so the windows stand out from it. Cracks look especially good this way. The tool counts the solids after cutting and warns you if a pattern would split the shade.
Your prompt or photo is first turned into a clean single-colour concept image of a solid sculptural object on a wide flat base, then into a 3D mesh with our super-resolution image-to-3D generator. The tool scales the mesh so its bottom clears the LED kit, offsets the surface inward by your wall thickness (1 mm by default) to hollow it, opens the bottom, and applies the same cutouts and base as a designed shade. Generation takes about 4–6 minutes and the result stays in your history.
Yes. Drop an STL, OBJ, GLB or ZIP into Upload 3D. Solid, watertight models are hollowed automatically; if your model is already a shell, untick Hollow it out. Use the rotate buttons if it comes in lying down.
This tool is built for low-voltage LED pucks, which stay cool enough for PLA. For an E27 socket lamp, design the shade here and model a socket base separately, or use a puck-style LED bulb holder. Never use incandescent bulbs inside a printed shade.
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