Brick designer

SlideBrick

A dry-stack, interlocking 3D-printed brick system. Bricks join with sliding dovetails, so they lock together without mortar.

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SlideBrick designer 3D view of interlocking brick walls with corner posts

What the designer does

Walls, curves, arches & domes

Draw straight walls, curves, arches and domes together on one canvas.

Corner posts

Join wall runs with corner posts.

Image & pattern relief faces

Put images or patterns on brick faces as raised relief.

Numbered parts & assembly drawings

Every brick is numbered, with assembly drawings to build from.

Per-brick watertight STL export

Export each brick as its own watertight STL, ready to slice.

Inside the designer

Real screenshots from the live designer.

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SlideBrick Face library panel with pattern tiles next to a brick
1Face library

Pick a face from the library

Brick bonds, render, rock, ashlar and timber patterns, with scale, seed and turn controls.

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SlideBrick brick with a rock wall relief face applied
2Pattern relief

Apply it to the brick face

The chosen pattern is laid over the front face as raised relief.

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SlideBrick brick with an imported image raised as relief on its face
3Image relief

Turn any image into relief

Load an image: bright areas rise, dark areas stay flat, cut brick by brick.

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SlideBrick brick with an imported STL model sculpted onto the front face
4STL import

Sculpt with your own STL

Import a closed STL; it is fixed to the front face, kept in proportion and cut into each brick.

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SlideBrick top view of a curved wall drawn with the Arc tool
5Arc tool

Draw curved walls

Click start, end and a bulge point, or type a radius, and the bricks follow the curve.

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SlideBrick 3D view of a curved brick wall
63D view

Check it in 3D

Orbit the wall in 3D before you export the numbered parts.

How it works

1

Draw

Lay out walls, curves, arches and domes on the canvas.

2

Design faces

Add image or pattern relief to the faces you want.

3

Export and print

Export per-brick STLs and print the numbered parts.

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A single SlideBrick brick with sliding dovetail ends

Start designing

Runs in your browser. Nothing to install.

Open SlideBrick Designer

stlgalaxy.com · Steven Perisanidis · Melbourne