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A free Tinkercad alternative made for 3D printing

If you learned 3D with Tinkercad, you already know how to use Lok3D: drag shapes, turn some into holes and combine. The difference is that Lok3D was made for printing: what you design comes out ready for the slicer, in color, at the size of your printer.

Step by step

Shapes and holes work the same way
Pick a shape on the left, place it on the bed and resize it with the handles or by typing mm. Turn any part into a hole with "Hole" (O) and combine with "Union" (Ctrl+G).
Draw your own shapes
Beyond ready-made shapes, draw with the pen, pencil or line, like in a vector editor (CorelDraw, Illustrator). Each node can be a corner or a curve, and each segment can be straight or curved.
Round edges and add screws
Round or chamfer edges with a click, add screw holes, nut traps, threads and magnet pockets with the right clearance.
Paint in color
Paint faces or whole parts and download a 3MF with the colors, ready for the AMS in Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or Creality Print.
Choose your printer
Pick your printer (Bambu Lab, Creality, Prusa, Elegoo...) and the bed shows its real size. Too many parts? Spread them over several plates, like in Bambu Studio.
No account needed
Open the site and start. Without an account the project stays for 48 hours; with a free account it is kept and you can publish in the gallery.

Tips

Shortcuts are similar: Ctrl+G combines, Ctrl+D duplicates, D drops the part onto the bed.
Import your old Tinkercad models: export them as STL or OBJ and use File → Import.
It also works on tablets and installs like an app (PWA).

Open the editor (free) →