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A magnetic fidget slider with a chunky tyre tread grip, for the car fan who cannot keep their hands still.
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Two identical plates held together by twelve magnets: push the top one and it snaps from row to row with a click. The thumb faces carry a deep tyre tread, chevrons you can feel without looking, in orange on black plates like a racing tyre on a pit lane. It is the grippiest surface in the set, good for nervous thumbs.
Made with our free fidget slider generator, not modelled by hand: we picked the Tyre tread surface and set the plate colour to black and the insert colour to orange. Everything else is the tool's default: 35 by 45 mm plates, 5.8 mm thick, for 6 by 2 mm disc magnets, six per plate in three rows, under a 0.4 mm floor, with the insert a 0.15 mm press fit in its pocket. The zip holds exactly what the tool exports: a 3MF with both plates and both inserts in their two colours, and one plate and one insert as STLs to print twice. Like every free download from the tool, each plate carries a small raised MESHCAST mark on one long side.
Print the four parts flat with no supports, press in twelve magnets (the two plates the opposite way round) and the two inserts, and it is ready in an evening. It makes a good desk toy, a quiet thing for restless hands in meetings, or a small gift that looks bought.
Shown as a 3D render of the printed slider, assembled with the top plate slid one click along, next to a spare plate and insert, not a photo.
Print two plates and two inserts flat as exported, no supports. Finer layers (0.12 to 0.16 mm) on the inserts bring out the texture.
Stack the magnets and mark the top face of the stack with a pen.
Press six magnets into the first plate marked side up and six into the second marked side down.
Hold the plates bottom to bottom: they must snap together. If they push apart, flip the magnets in one plate.
Press an insert into each pocket over the magnets, put the plates together and slide.
Print details
| Type | Print only |
|---|---|
| Printed parts | 4 |
| Size (W x D x H) | 35 x 45 x 13 mm |
| Print bed needed | 45 x 36 mm, 6 mm tall |
| Filament | ~20 g |
| Layer height | 0.2 mm |
| Infill | 20% |
| Supports | Not needed |
| Download | ZIP: 3MF in two colours + plate and insert STLs + README with assembly |
| Added | 2026-10-05 |
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It is made for one: the chevron tread reads as a racing tyre at a glance, and the plates click like a gear shift. Print the plates in their team colours instead of black and orange and it becomes a small personal gift for the garage or the office desk.
Twelve round neodymium disc magnets, 6 mm across and 2 mm thick, the most common size there is: six per plate. If you have a different size, open the free fidget slider generator, pick it under Magnets and it moves the holes and the pocket to fit.
About 2 h 10 min for all four parts and 20 g of filament at 0.2 mm layers, estimated from the files rather than sliced; a current printer is faster. The 3MF puts both plates and both inserts on one bed in two colours.
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