Knit Penguin Flexi Spinner Pencil Topper – Print-in-Place, No Supports (STL + Multicolor 3MF)

A winter penguin in a knit “sweater” texture, with a red scarf and ribbed beanie, print-in-place flexi legs, and a 360° spinner that sits on a standard pencil.

This is the free hook from the Winter Knit Collection. The knit snowman and knit tree, with more winter designs coming, are a paid exclusive for members of Wild & Wiggly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Wildandwiggly

The pictures with this model are preview renders, not photos of a printed part. These files have been checked in software and have not been test-printed yet. Print times and gram weights below are slicer estimates.

What you get (STL and 3MF) Every download includes both: • A single-colour all-in-one STL, plus a single-colour 3MF, so you can print it on any FDM printer with one filament. • A multicolour 3MF with colours already assigned to their slots (AMS / MMU / ACE and similar). The spinner is a part of the same object, so it clones with the body. • Optional per-colour STLs if you want to assign colours yourself.

You do not need a multicolour printer to use this model.

Size and scale As printed (legs flat on the bed): about 48.0 × 63.9 × 45.6 mm; model top about 45.6 mm.

Print at 100% scale only. Do not scale or rotate the file. Scaling changes the flexi-leg gaps, the spinner clearance, and the pencil fit.

Print tips • Orientation: as loaded, legs flat on the bed, pointing forward. • Layer height: 0.12 mm (this is what the stitch texture was designed for). • Walls: 3. Infill: 15% gyroid. • Supports: off. Brim: off. Supports would fuse the moving legs and the spinner. • After printing, let the bed cool. Gently flex each leg joint until it moves. Twist the spinner by hand through the bottom hole to free it, then push the unsharpened end of a standard pencil into the hole, hold it upright, and flick.

Slicer estimates (Anycubic Slicer Next, 0.12 mm, project settings in the 3MF):

• Single colour: about 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 35 minutes and 12 to 15 g. Great for printers without a multicolour system. • Multicolour: a long, purge-heavy job (about 23 hours and hundreds of colour changes at 0.12 mm, because several colours share most layers). Use the multicolour 3MF if you want the painted look and can spare the time and purge. Flush-into-infill / a lower purge matrix can cut waste, but it will still be a long print.

Colour guide (already set in the multicolour 3MF) • Slot 1: Black — knit body, head, flippers, eyes, flexi-leg parts, and the captive spinner • Slot 2: White — face, belly, pom-pom and hat stripe • Slot 3: Orange — beak (and any remaining flexi-leg parts packed in this slot) • Slot 4: Red — knit scarf, beanie and cheeks

Printing from the per-colour STLs? Import them together as one object with multiple parts, then set each part to the slot in its file name.

Licence Free for personal use. Please do not sell the digital files or sell physical prints of this model. A commercial licence to sell prints is available to paid members on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Wildandwiggly

This model has small moving parts. It is a pencil topper and desk accessory, not a toy. Small parts: not for children under 3.

The rest of the collection If you like the knit penguin, the full Winter Knit Collection is on Patreon (paid tiers, $3 and $10), with the same STL + multicolour 3MF package for every design:

https://www.patreon.com/cw/Wildandwiggly

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