Manufacturing belongs back in your hands.
Print3d Hive is building the infrastructure that turns individual makers and their machines into a coordinated, local-first production network.
Big factories took the work, and the money, out of our local communities.
We used to make almost everything close to home. Woodworking. Clothes. Toys. Furniture. Tools. Hardware. Repair parts. A town had shops, benches, and people who knew how to build. Then that work got locked inside factories most of us will never walk into. The skills left with it. When a ship is late or a plant shuts down, the community waits.
- Work and pay leave town the moment production does
- Supply chains stretch across oceans and snap under pressure
- Designs and know-how sit inside a few companies
- Everyday people cannot get at the tools that used to live next door
- A community that cannot make things has to buy whatever it is given
The tide has already turned.
Those tools are back in our neighborhoods. Printers, CNC benches, sewing machines, lasers, welders, kilns. Garages and small shops can make real goods again. Nobody has been connecting them. Until now.
The machines were already here. We just were not using them together.
I picked up 3D printing in 2020 because I was bored during COVID. What started as a way to pass the time turned into a real craft, then a business idea. I am a U.S. Army veteran. In the Army I led data analysis teams, and that work stuck. I still care about data, and I still care about making things. Print3d Hive came from watching how fragile our supply chains are, and how much we lean on other countries to send us the goods we used to make ourselves.
The printers, shops, and skills are already in our towns. What we did not have was a way to put them to work as one network. That is the job.
A complete, working system. Not a promise.
Short version: pick a design, download it free or buy the file, and print it yourself. Making for others returns with Hive Swarm.
Browse the catalog
Find designs for the things you need. High-quality, production-ready files.
Download or fork (ordering coming soon)
Take the files freely. Remix them. Ordering a made item is coming soon.
Coming soon: get it made by a nearby maker
Coming soon: find a nearby maker who can make it. Each maker sells and makes their own work.
Maker produces it
Coming soon: your maker will make the part with their own materials and settings.
You will choose delivery
Coming soon: free local pickup, drop-off for a fee, or shipping. You stay in control.
Value stays with the people doing the work.
We built the incentives the way they should have been from the start.
- The price you see is the price of the file. Sales tax, where it applies, is added at checkout.
- Creators keep most of each sale. See the Fee Schedule for the exact split.
- Coming soon for made items: shipping, packaging and tax are shown separately.
Checkout shows the current numbers.
Slixe
Slixe is an app from Print3d Hive for preparing 3D print files.
It opens a model, slices it for printing and shows each layer.
This is the early operating system for distributed manufacturing.
You are not a consumer. You are a participant in the rebuild.
Every design you download or fork helps build a real alternative to the extractive model we inherited.
Resilience
When the next disruption hits, communities with active local production capacity will not wait for containers from across the ocean.
Agency
You decide what gets made, how it gets made, and who makes it. The tools and the network are finally in the same place.
Legacy
We are in the first generation that can actually build the open, distributed manufacturing base the next century will run on. That work is happening now.
The infrastructure is being built. The question is whether you will help build it.
Share your designs, or support the designers already here by buying their files.