The page opens on the gingerbread house kit: ten flat pieces (front, back, two side walls, two roof halves, and four small ones for the chimney), each printed lying down with the icing on top. Pick a cottage, a tall or a wide house, set the width, depth, wall height and roof steepness, then the windows (panes, arched, round, star or heart), the door, a zigzag or dotted icing trim, snow, scallops or tiles on the roof, hearts or stars on the walls, sweets on the ridge, and a name over the door or in the gable.
One filament change at the height shown (the panel thickness, 2.4 mm by default) gives brown gingerbread and white icing on a single-nozzle printer; the 3MF also carries the sweets as a third color for a multicolor printer. If the packed layout does not fit your bed, "STL per piece" gives every panel as its own file for two plates. Cut-out windows let the light of an LED tealight or a light string inside shine through.
Glue the two side walls between the front and the back, let it set, then lay the roof halves on the gables so they overhang evenly and meet along the ridge (their ends are cut to meet face to face). For the chimney, glue the two short sides between the front and the back (the slanted edges go down), then set it on the bare patch of the left roof half. Superglue gel or a hot-glue gun both work.
Print settings, the icing color change and fixes for common problems, step by step: the 3D printed gingerbread house guide.
Switch to Tealight house for one hollow piece with an open bottom: set it over an LED tealight and the light comes out of the windows, the door, the chimney and any stars in the roof. Engrave bricks, planks or half-timbering into the walls and tiles or shingles into the roof; an engraved name or wall pattern keeps a thin skin of wall, so it glows in white PLA and nothing falls out. It prints standing, no supports, and the 3MF keeps the walls, the roof, the snow and a raised name as separate parts for a multicolor printer. A row of them in different shapes makes a Christmas village for the windowsill.
LED tealights only. PLA goes soft at about 60 °C; a real candle under a printed house is a fire risk.
Ten flat pieces: the front and the back, two side walls, two roof halves and four small panels for the chimney (six without the chimney). Each prints lying down with the icing on top. If they do not all fit your bed, download STL per piece and print them on two plates.
Add one filament change at the height the tool shows (the panel thickness, 2.4 mm by default) and load white when the printer pauses. With a multicolor printer, download the 3MF: it carries the gingerbread, the icing and the sweets as three parts with their colors set.
Glue the two side walls between the front and the back and let it set. Then lay the roof halves on the gables so they overhang evenly and meet along the ridge. Superglue gel or a hot-glue gun both work.
No, LED tealights only. PLA starts to go soft at about 60 °C, so a real flame under a printed house is a fire risk. A common LED tealight is 38 mm across, and the tool warns you when the inside is too small for one.
No. It prints standing up in one piece with the bottom open, and the roof slider stops at 40 degrees, steep enough for the ceiling inside to print without supports. White or natural PLA lets the engraved name and wall pattern glow.