LAYERED – HYPE CHAIN – NO AMS

Color-Layered Hype Chain to STL

No AMS needed — swap filament by hand between colors

Big, chunky charms for a hype chain, built for single-extruder printers. Colors become physical height instead of separate filaments — pause and swap by hand at each level, or print it in one color for a bold relief look.

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How it works

  1. Upload an image — team logos and simple designs work best. High resolution, generally SVG is needed to avoid jagged edges
  2. Remove the background and detect colors
  3. Reorder colors to set which sits tallest — drag with the ▲▼ buttons
  4. Adjust thickness and hole size if you want something different from the defaults
  5. Generate & Download for a single STL (or a ZIP with one file per height level)
  6. Click Download Chain Link (3MF) for the matching connector pieceassemble, and hang it up, or put it around your neck!
  7. Print — pause and swap filament at each height if you want multiple colors, or leave it as one bold color

Detailed Instructions

Why “color-layered,” and why no AMS?

  • Colors become height, not separate filaments. Each detected color gets its own step height — the tallest color is whichever one you put at the top of the stack. Everything prints in a single color change (or none at all), so there’s no automatic multi-material printer required.
  • Manual swaps are optional, not required. If you want a multi-color result, pause your printer at each height and change filament by hand. If you’re happy with a single bold color, just print it straight through — the height relief still reads as detail either way.
  • Same chunky sizing as the standard Hype Chain. 150mm print size, thick base and per-level height by default — built for a bold physical presence.
  • Same mounting tab and bonus download. A rounded tab sticks out past the design’s edge with a large hole through the center, sized for real chain hardware — and every generation includes a separate Chain Link 3MF download, a fixed file that’s always the same.

Choosing your image

  • Bold graphics with a handful of distinct colors work best — each detected color becomes its own visible step, so busy or gradient-heavy images lose clarity in the height map.
  • SVG is the best choice if you have it — logos, wordmarks, and vectorized art scale to any size with no loss of sharpness, which matters at this tool’s larger 150mm default. PNG works well too, especially for photos or anything without a vector source — just start from the highest resolution you have.

Reordering colors

After detecting colors, use the ▲▼ buttons on each swatch to set stacking order. Whatever’s at the top of the list becomes the tallest — this is your call creatively, and also determines the order you’d swap filament in if printing multi-color.

Thickness

Base thickness (the solid plate) and per-level height (how much each color step rises) are both adjustable. Defaults are chunky by design — raise either for even more relief, or lower them to save filament and print time.

Mounting Tab

  • Position — where the tab sits around the edge, in degrees.
  • Hole size — diameter of the mounting hole, defaults to 20mm for real chain hardware.
  • Wall thickness — how much material surrounds the hole within the tab, defaults to 4mm for durability.

Export

Choose a single combined STL, or a ZIP with one STL per height level if you want to inspect or edit them separately. Then click Download Chain Link (3MF) for the matching connector — always the same file, ready to print alongside your charm.