What's new
Every new thing in Kids 3D Lab, newest first.
Made for tablets
- New Made for tablets. Pick more lets you pick several shapes with taps (no Shift key needed), touch and hold opens the menu, and the buttons are bigger for fingers. More →
- New Add to Home Screen (in the ⋯ menu): Kids 3D Lab gets its own icon and opens full screen, like an app. More →
- Better On a phone, or a tablet held upright, the top bar has a new ⋯ More button with Open, Import, Help, What's new and the Website, which didn't fit before. More →
- Better Lots of blog posts now have our own drawings, and some of them move, so ideas like X, Y and Z, holes and layers are easier to see. More →
- Better Big models from model websites now import too: if a model has too many tiny triangles, Kids 3D Lab makes it lighter by itself, and it looks the same. More →
- Fixed A 3MF saved with colours (from Kids 3D Lab, or another app) now keeps its colours when you import it again: one part per colour, grouped. More →
- Fixed 3MF files from Bambu Studio and MakerWorld import now (they used to say "Cannot read properties…"). More →
19 kinds of letters, in every colour
- New 17 new kinds of letters for words and names: round Fredoka, comic Luckiest Guy, blocky Bungee, video-game Press Start 2P, joined-up Pacifico and more. Each button shows your own words in those letters. Thank you to Diego and Lorenzo for the idea! More →
- New Split into letters: every letter of a word becomes its own shape, so each one can have its own colour. Great for name keychains! More →
Colourful drawings, and a fix
- New Drawings in colour. Import an SVG drawing with several colours, and each colour comes in as its own part, grouped together. Print it in colours with 3MF with colours.
- Fixed Import works again for SVG, STL, OBJ and 3MF files. Thank you to the parent who told us!
- Better Words saved as text in an SVG get a clear message: turn them into outlines first. More →
- Better Turning the view is steadier: it no longer jumps into the flat Top view, and it stops gliding sooner when you let go.
- New What's new: this page! In the app, the megaphone button at the top gets an orange dot when there's something new.
- New A contact form for grown-ups, to tell us about a problem or an idea. More →
- Better A fresh home page: a place for kids, teens and grown-ups, and the three try-it demos in one box with tabs. More →
- New Try Pro mode straight from the home page: the link opens the app with Pro switched on. More →
New guides
Pro mode for older makers
- New Pro mode: a switch in the top bar for ages 12 and up. Measurement lines, sizes to 0.01 mm, and sizes you can type right on the line. More →
- New Repeat: copies in a row, round a ring, or a mirror copy.
- New Combine and Overlap: join shapes into one solid, or keep only where they meet.
- New For teens in the blog: CAD in DT, science fair projects and jobs that use 3D design. More →
17 practice games
- New The Practice corner now has 17 games: measuring, X-ray, looking from every side, drawing a shape and more. More →
- Better Practice notes turn green when you get it right and red when it's wrong.
- New Blog posts link to the practice game that matches.
Build on any side
- New Workplane: click the top or side of a shape, and the next shape stands right on it. More →
- New Drag a shape from the Shapes panel straight onto another shape or onto the plate.
- Better Lots of tabs stay easy to reach: the tab row scrolls, and the + button stays at the end.
- Better A tidier home page with five builds in the 3D picture. More →
Show off your build
- New Save as a picture: your build on a podium or a coloured background, ready to share. More →
- New On phones, a picked shape opens a sheet with Colour, Size, Place and Turn.
- Better Side panels fold away for more room, and the tool row scrolls with arrows.
- Better Sliders to move shapes across the plate and to size several shapes at once.
Modes and a new tool row
- New Select, Move, Rotate and Scale modes, like the big 3D programs.
- New On top and Under buttons to stack shapes in one click.
- Better The tool row floats over the plate, with clearer icons and names.
- New Full screen button.
See inside your build
80 examples
Practice and play
- New The first Practice corner games, and a hole you can try on the home page. More →
- New Examples build themselves on the plate when you open them.
Kids 3D Lab is born
- New Our new name, Kids 3D Lab, and our home at kids3dlab.com.
- Better Holes show straight away, and shapes resize from all eight corners.
- New Drag a number left or right to change it. Drag the view cube to turn the view.
- Better 3MF files keep their colours in Bambu Studio.
The first version
- New Build with shapes, cut holes, add words, and export STL files for a 3D printer.
- New The Guide, the Tutorial and the Blog. More →
Found something that doesn't work, or have an idea? Email us at hello@kids3dlab.com