A picture frame that fits your print. Exactly.
Type in the size of your print. Frame Studio reshapes my modular frame to match and hands you a print-ready STL. Anything from 98 mm to 595 mm. No account, no paywall, no catch.
Frame mode is free for everybody. The light box stays in HueForge Pro.
Printed 87 times in the last 30 days.
Three numbers and you’re done
That’s the whole tool. Your size, your thickness, your STL.
YOUR SIZE
Type your print’s width and height, or tap one of the eight presets: Poster 200×200, Landscape 200×150, Small 150×150, Tile 100×100, Half 100×200, 2:3 133×200, 3:4 149×200, 9:16 112×200. The frame comes out at your print plus 4.5 mm, so a 200×200 print gets a 204.5 mm frame. Anywhere from 98 mm to 595 mm works.
YOUR THICKNESS
Measure how thick your print is and type it in. Frame Studio picks the pocket that holds it — 1.48, 2.40, 3.20 or 4.00 mm — and builds the frame around it.
YOUR STL
Hit download. It comes out flat on the plate with the keyhole face down, already oriented. Drop it in your slicer and print it.
It still locks to the one you printed last year
Some of you are going to read “custom size” and think, “Vic, then it won’t clip onto the ones I already printed.” Fair question. It’s the first thing I’d want to know too.
Frame Studio doesn’t scale the frame. It warps it. Only the straight, featureless runs of rail get stretched — the boring middle bits with nothing on them. Every corner, every connector socket, every retention dot and the keyhole on the back gets picked up and moved across, unchanged. Same geometry it’s always had.
So a 340 mm frame you generate this afternoon clips straight onto a 204.5 mm frame you printed a year ago. Same connectors, same sockets, same fit. Build your wall out over time and every piece still talks to every other piece.
Deeper pockets work the same way. A thicker pocket is cut into the part, not stretched out of it — so a 4 mm-pocket frame is still 10 mm thick and still mates with a stock frame straight off MakerWorld.
Measure the edge, not the middle
Four pocket depths. The tool picks one for you. Your job is to hand it the right number.
The pockets are 1.48 · 2.40 · 3.20 · 4.00 mm. You type your thickness, and Frame Studio gives you the shallowest pocket that clears it. A 3.28 mm print gets the 4.00 pocket, not the 3.20.
Some of you are going to look at that and think, “Vic, 3.28 is basically 3.20.” And I get it. But the pocket has to clear the print, not tie with it. A hair over and your print sits proud, and the frame won’t close down on it.
Now the part everybody gets wrong. Measure the edge of your print, not the middle. Where the wall meets the seat there’s a 45-degree chamfer, and the edge of your print lands on that chamfer. That’s why the real clearance in the stock published frame is 1.48 mm, even though the flat seat measures 1.625. The edge is what sits under the retention dots — so the edge is the number that matters.
Measuring the middle instead of the edge is the one thing on this page that will cost you a print. So it is very, very worth the calipers. Measure a corner, type that in. And if it comes out and your print doesn’t sit right — it’s okay. Remeasure, rebuild, download again. It costs you nothing.
The dots
Twelve retention dots hold your print in place — three per rail, at centre and at plus and minus 50 mm. Below 136 mm the frame swaps to a one-dot-per-rail family instead, all the way down to a 102 mm frame.
It tells you before you download
Pick your printer and Frame Studio checks the frame against your plate before you commit. Thirty-two machines, read straight out of their own shipped slicer profiles. If a 420 mm frame isn’t going to land on your bed, you find that out here — not forty minutes into a slice.
Quick note on what it’s checking: the plate footprint, width by height. It doesn’t check build height. And the STL comes out already flat and the right way up, keyhole face on the plate, so there’s nothing to rotate.
The settings I print these at: 0.2 mm layers, 2 walls, 15% infill, no supports. The support inside the connector sockets is part of the model — print it, then poke it out with a pair of clippers.
The frame itself is free on MakerWorld
Frame Studio builds you a custom size. If you just want the stock frame — the one I published, the one this whole system is built on — it’s free on MakerWorld and it has been since October 2025. It’s listed as The Ultimate HueForge Frame | Fully Modular System.
It’s my most-printed model. 87 prints and 3,520 views in the last 30 days, and I’m genuinely stoked about that.
One ask, and I’ll be straight with y’all about it. If you’ve printed one of my frames, hit Boost on the model page. Boosting is free for you — it costs you a click and nothing else — and MakerWorld pays me a real reward for it. That reward is part of what keeps the frame free and keeps this tool free. It picked up 9 boosts in the last 30 days. I’d love to see that number move.
That’s the whole ask. You don’t need a tier and you don’t need an account.
The Ultimate HueForge Frame — last 30 days
- 87
- prints
- 99
- downloads
- 9
- boosts
Boost is the button on the model page. It’s free, it takes one click, and it’s the only thing I’m asking for.
And if you want the rest of the bench
Frame mode is free. The other half of Frame Studio — the light box — lives in HueForge Pro. Same frame on the front, but the part becomes a solid enclosure you drop LEDs into. Depth runs 26 to 130 mm front to back, 50 by default; go under 48.1 mm and the LEDs start showing as dots, so the tool tells you. It prints floor-down with no supports, and there’s a 16 mm push-out hole dead centre through the floor so the thing actually comes off the plate. The front 10 mm is the frame, so a light box still keys straight into a plain frame.
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The same subscription carries the HueForge Pro course, MarginForge, the Filament Index and the design library. One price, all of it.
Questions I get
The eight things y’all ask me most, answered straight.
Go make something that fits.