Make a clicker that clicks for real.
Design 3D-printable clicker buttons in your browser. Free while we’re in beta — try it now, and help us make it better. Your picture stays on your computer until you download.
Image to clicker: from artwork to a printed button
Upload a picture, logo or drawing, adjust its shape and colours, then download the printable files.
Clicker Wonderland is a free clicker generator that runs in your browser during beta.
Each fidget clicker uses a real MX-compatible keyboard switch.
We deliver finished prints across Malaysia in 3–5 business days, with a RM50 minimum per order; Setapak pickup has no minimum.
There is a free account — a one-click sign-in link by email, or Google, and no password to remember — and it is asked for only when you download, never to design. Downloading is free while we’re in beta. Nothing to install. Designing runs in your own browser, and your design stays on your computer until you download a printable file.
How it works
- Choose your starting point. Upload a picture, pick one of the built-in shapes, or add lettering.
- Make it yours. Adjust the design and preview the button and base in your browser.
- Download and print. Export a 3MF or STL, print the two parts, then fit a bought MX-style keyboard switch.
Your child’s drawing, as a button that clicks
Most people meet this tool with a picture already in mind, and it is almost never a logo. It is a drawing somebody brought home from school: a wobbly cat, a rocket, a face with too many teeth. Photograph it, drop the photograph in, and the outline of the drawing becomes the outline of the button. The colours in the drawing become the colours the printer lays down.
What comes out is not a picture of the drawing. It is a small object that sits on a desk and makes a real mechanical click when it is pressed, with the drawing on top of it, in colour. It survives the fridge, the move, the year the child stops drawing like that.
The same path handles a shop logo, a pet, a band’s sigil, a team crest, a name in your own handwriting. The tool does not care what the picture is of — it traces the shapes it finds, groups the colours, and builds the mechanism underneath them.
What it makes
Every design is exactly two printed parts plus one bought switch. The button is the part that moves. The base is the part that stays still and carries the switch. Between them the app generates the plate cutout the switch clips into, the cavity under it, a sliding guide surface that keeps the press straight, and a cross-shaped socket that grips the switch stem.
The switch is an ordinary MX-style mechanical keyboard switch — Cherry MX, Gateron, or a Kailh BOX. They cost a few ringgit each and they are the reason the click is a real click rather than two pieces of plastic knocking together. A clicky switch such as a Kailh BOX White is the loudest.
| Starting point | What you get |
|---|---|
| A picture | Upload a photo or an image file. The outline of the artwork becomes the outline of the button, or the artwork sits inside one of fourteen built-in shapes. |
| A shape and some lettering | Twenty-two built-in outlines, twenty-three fonts, raised or engraved text. No picture needed. Load your own .ttf, .otf or .woff if you want a particular face. |
| A 3D model you already own | Organic mode, in beta: import a .glb, .gltf or .stl, draw a seam, and the model itself becomes the clicker — its own halves click around the switch. |
Three sizes to start from: Keychain at 42 mm, which also switches the keychain loop on, Desk at 60 mm, and Chonky at 82 mm. Everything between them is a slider, up to a 118 mm ceiling. Accessories are optional and generated with the rest of the model: a keychain loop, a magnet pocket, a ring channel, a lanyard slot, a badge-pin back.
How it prints
The design is built so that an ordinary FDM printer with one nozzle can make it, and the whole point of the two-part split is that neither part needs support material.
| Setting | What we use, and why |
|---|---|
| Layer height | 0.2 mm is a sensible default. Finer layers make the sliding surfaces smoother, which matters more here than it does on an ordinary print. |
| Supports | None, in the normal case. The exceptions are a keychain loop lifted off the bed, and a ring channel or lanyard slot high on the rim. |
| Orientation | Both parts arrive lying flat on the plate. The exported STL zip is already laid out; the 3MF arrives with the colours assigned per part. |
| Colour | The 3MF carries the colour regions, so a multi-material printer paints them without any work in the slicer. On a single-colour printer it still prints — you simply get one colour, or two if you print the halves in different filament. |
| Material | PLA or PETG both work. We print ours in PETG. |
The clicker on our first published listing is a worked example with real numbers behind it: a 60 mm dragon head, printed on a Bambu Lab P1S with a 0.4 mm nozzle, 0.2 mm layers, 15% infill and no supports, in four PETG colours. 1 h 32 m, 28 g of filament, two parts.
Assembly is thirty seconds. Clip the switch into the plate cutout in the base until it snaps — a firm press, not a hammer — then push the button half down onto the cross stem and check the travel. It is stiff for the first few presses and loosens as the sliding surfaces bed in.
Try one before you design one
Our own models are published free on the two big repositories, with real printed photographs and the print profile attached. Print one, see whether you like the mechanism, and then come back and put your own picture on it.
- Dragon Head Clicker on Printables — free 3MF and STL, the colours included.
- Dragon Head Clicker on MakerWorld — the same model, with a verified print profile.
More on those, and on what the word “free” covers in each case, on the free fidget clicker files page.
Read next
- 3D printing a clicker button around a real MX switch — switch types, the 14 mm plate cutout, print settings, sizes, and what to change when the fit is wrong.
- Free fidget clicker files, and a tool to make your own — where our published models live and what is in them.
- The Clicker Wonderland manual — every control in the app, in order, with a printable PDF.
- 3D printing in the Klang Valley — no printer? Send us the design and we will print and deliver it.
Questions
What do I need to print a clicker?
Print the button and base, then add one MX-style mechanical keyboard switch. Use an FDM 3D printer, PLA or PETG filament, a 0.4 mm nozzle and 0.2 mm layers. Supports are normally not needed.
Which switch makes a real click?
Use an MX-style mechanical keyboard switch. Cherry MX, Gateron and Kailh BOX switches fit the same 14 mm plate cutout. Choose a clicky switch for a click sound; a linear switch has no click.
Do I need a multi-colour printer?
No. The 3MF includes colour regions for multi-material printers, and a single-nozzle printer can print it in one colour. You can also print the button and base in different filaments.
Can Babah3D print it for me?
Yes. Babah3D offers custom 3D design and printing in Kuala Lumpur. Contact us on WhatsApp for a quote.