🖨️ Printed Clicker — no hardware

The click comes from the plastic itself, with nothing to buy. Drop a picture on the cap, reduce it to filament colours, and print two parts that snap together.

24 × 24 × 13.0 mm

Artwork▾

What it says

Font

Weight

Colour each letter separately

Artwork colour

Artwork placement

Size (%)

Rotation

Flip horizontally (mirror)Frame

Mechanism▾

Material

PETG is the default — it bends a long way before it fatigues. PLA gives a sharper click but is brittle, and a fidget gets pressed thousands of times.

Lip depth (mm)How far the lip reaches in — this is what the ridge has to pass. Deeper means a stronger click and more strain on the fingers.Travel (mm)How far the button moves between its two resting states.

Finger length (mm)The free length that flexes. Strain falls with the SQUARE of it — the most effective fix for an over-strained design.Finger thickness (mm)

Number of fingersShaft diameter (mm)

Sliding clearance (mm)Below one nozzle width (0.4 mm) the two halves print fused into a single solid.Outer diameter (mm)

Cap thickness (mm)

Button colour

Body colour

📁 My designs

Estimated print time: ~17 min · ~2.5 g filament

Printer plate size

One plate in the file · 256×256 mm bed

Plate 1 · 9 parts · 3% of the bed

Nothing to buy. Print the body base-down and the button head-down, neither needs supports, then push the button in until it clicks. The tail that pokes out underneath is what you press to click it back.

Print the housing open-side down and the cap artwork-down — neither needs supports. 0.4 mm nozzle, 0.2 mm layers.

✅ This will click13.8N press · 1.11% strain of 1.80% · 2.0 mm travel

24 mm across · body 11 mm · button 18.2 mm