Printability Check

Sonneblom Digitaal in Modeling


What do I get for $1?

The full add-on: every check and every Select button, both zips (Blender extension and legacy add-on), the documentation and free updates for 1.x. It is licensed GPL-3.0-or-later, with no account, no trial and no nag screens.

How is this different from Print Fix?

Printability Check finds and shows problems; it never changes your mesh. Print Fix is our separate, paid add-on that repairs them: it closes holes, fixes flipped faces and non-manifold edges, merges intersecting parts on a copy and re-checks its result. Many people only need the check, and fix small things by hand.

How is it different from Blender's 3D-Print Toolbox?

The toolbox gives a list of numbers. Printability Check gives one verdict per object (green, amber or red), explains each problem in plain English, counts holes as well as open edges, finds verts where parts only touch at a point, and has a Select button on every row. It reports and selects only; it has no export or scale tools.

My model is green. Will it print for sure?

Green means the mesh is a closed, consistently oriented solid in one piece with no zero-area or intersecting faces, so a slicer can read it. It does not check wall thickness, overhangs, supports or whether it fits your printer, so a print can still fail for those reasons.

The size looks 1000 times too big. Why?

Blender's default scene counts 1 unit as 1 metre, and STL files have no units. Set 1 Blender unit = to 1 mm in the panel and check again. Your model itself is not changed by this setting.

Why are shells and intersections amber and not red?

Because they are often fine: a print plate can have many parts, and most slicers merge parts that overlap. Holes, non-manifold geometry and inside-out faces are red because slicers have to guess there, which is what makes prints fail.

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Details
Blender Extension Compatible Yes
Published about 3 hours ago
Blender Version 4.2 - 5.1
Extension Type Add-on
License GPL