Listing photos of a print you haven’t printed.
RenderPlate slices your model with a real Bambu Studio profile, reads the toolpath back, and renders it as photographs — layer lines, seams and all. It runs on your own PC. Nothing about your model leaves the machine.
Windows 10/11 · .3mf .stl .obj · Bambu Studio required · no account
Stage 01 / Import
A viewport screenshot is not a product photo.
Buyers scrolling a model listing are looking for a thing that exists. Grey shaded geometry on a grey background reads as a file. Drop that same file into RenderPlate and it comes back as an object sitting on a desk.
Set the shot before you spend the render.
Import opens a fast geometry proxy, not a render. Orbit it, set elevation and distance, nudge the target off centre, and pick the filament colour for each slot. The camera you leave it on becomes the hero frame; the gallery angles keep their own composition around it.
STL and OBJ carry no reliable unit or up-axis, so RenderPlate asks you rather than guessing and silently printing a 6 cm boat at 6 mm.
- Accepts
- .3mf, .stl, .objBinary and ASCII STL, OBJ with grouped materials.
- You declare
- Units and up-axisOnly for STL and OBJ. A 3MF already carries both.
- Framing
- Orbit, elevation, distance, target offset
- Colour
- Per filament slotRecoloured in the preview before the render starts.
Stage 02 / Slice
It runs your slicer. It does not imitate one.
The layer lines in these images are not a tiling texture wrapped around a mesh. RenderPlate hands the model to Bambu Studio, slices it against a pinned profile, and reads the real toolpath back — every perimeter loop, every travel move, every seam the slicer chose. Geometry follows the path.
Profiles that exist on real machines.
RenderPlate ships pinned Bambu Lab profiles rather than an abstract “quality” slider, because layer height is the single parameter that decides what a surface looks like. Pick the one you actually print with.
- A1 · 0.4 mm
- 0.12 mm fine · 0.20 mm standard · 0.28 mm draft
- A1 mini · 0.4 mm
- 0.16 mm optimal
- Material
- Standard PLAThe profile set grows with the product; these are what is calibrated today.
- Slicer
- Bambu Studio, installed separatelyFree, from Bambu Lab. RenderPlate finds it, or you point at it once.
Stage 03 / Deposit
Prints have tells. You choose how many.
A print that looks flawless looks fake. RenderPlate lays plastic along the toolpath and gives you the character controls a real machine would have written into the surface anyway — all on one scale, where 0 is off, 50 is the curated natural baseline, and 100 is roughly twice that.
- Layer drift
- Seam scars
- Surface waviness
- Stringing
- Restart blobs
- Path wander
- Colour bleed
- Unsupported sag
- Thin-feature under-forming
A seam is systematic, not random: its frequency tops out at one start-stop ridge per closed wall loop, so turning it up makes the ridge you would really get more visible instead of inventing extra ones.
Stage 04 / Render
One run fills a whole listing.
A run does not return one picture. It returns the set a marketplace listing wants: a hero, the angles around it, and a macro close enough to argue about. Below is one real run, unretouched.
Preview cheap, render once.
Quick preview is for framing. It comes back fast and deliberately suppresses deposition detail, so you are not paying render time to find out the camera is wrong.
Final is the real thing, and it is honest work for a CPU — expect several minutes per set. RenderPlate keeps every finished run in local history, so you can reopen a set weeks later, or download it again as a ZIP without re-rendering.
- Output
- PNG image set + ZIP
- Views
- Hero, three gallery angles, macroPlus plan and top views where the model suits them.
- History
- Stored locally, reopenable
- Interrupted run
- Retried from saved inputsClosing the app mid-render does not lose the job.
Trial / three runs, then a licence
Three full image sets, free.
Not three watermarked ones, and not three cropped ones. Three complete sets at full quality, which you may put straight on a listing and sell from. No account, no card, no expiry clock ticking while you read this.
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Run 01 free
Full quality
Every view. No watermark. Yours to publish.
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Run 02 free
Change your mind
Different profile, different colour, different camera.
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Run 03 free
Do a second model
The count is runs, not models or seats.
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Run 04 licence
$49, once
Perpetual, unlimited runs, all future updates.
Quick previews never count. They stay unlimited, before and after the trial runs out, because framing a shot should not cost you one of three.
The trial does not phone home. The count lives on your machine, like the rest of the app. Nothing is uploaded when you use it and nothing is uploaded when it runs out.
What it needs from you.
- Operating system
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- Bambu Studio
- Installed separatelyFree from Bambu Lab. RenderPlate does not bundle it and does not need your printer to be connected.
- Blender & Node
- BundledPinned builds ship inside the app. You do not install either one.
- Processor
- The faster the betterFinal renders are CPU work. Several minutes per image set is normal.
- Network
- Not used for renderingThe app serves itself to your own browser on 127.0.0.1 and slices, deposits and renders locally.
Say what these images are.
Every image RenderPlate produces is an illustrative visual simulation. It is not a prediction of how your printer will behave, how your filament will flow, or which defects a given print will actually have.
It is a very good picture of what your model would look like printed. It is not a test print, and no honest listing should imply that it is. RenderPlate keeps that disclosure attached to the output rather than burying it here.
You also need the rights to whatever you feed it — the model, the logos, the textures. The licence covers the software and the images it renders for you, not somebody else’s geometry.