Make a custom tea bag caddy to 3D print.
Sized to your bags, 1 to 6 compartments, textured walls, your logo.
The Tea Caddies generator makes an open tray where tea bags, coffee sticks or spice packets stand in rows, with a scoop in the front wall to pull the next one out. Start from a preset for a standard tea envelope (about 72 x 78 mm) or type your own bag size, and the compartments, the height and the number of bags in a row follow from it. The walls carry a honeycomb, flutes or a pattern, and the front carries a word or your logo in a second colour.
Examples
How to make a tea bag caddy
Pick what goes in
A preset for tea envelopes, coffee sticks, spice packets or soup packets, or measure one bag: width, height and thickness. Sizes vary by brand.
Set the compartments
1 to 6 side by side. Each is sized from the bag with 2 mm a side, or set the width yourself.
Shape the front
A wave over each compartment, a round notch, a lower front or a straight one; the cutout depth is a share of the height.
Keep the bags upright
Let them lean on each other, or add low ribs on the floor, thin walls with a finger notch, or an open rack.
Finish the walls
Honeycomb, flutes, beads or a pattern from the library, 4 to 16 mm, pressed 0.6 to 1.6 mm deep.
Add a mark
A word such as Tea or Coffee in one of 11 fonts, or your logo as an SVG, PNG or JPG.
What you can change
- Size
- Depth 40 to 250 mm; height from the bag (about two thirds of it, so the tops show) or up to 150 mm; wall 1.6 to 3 mm; corners 1 to 20 mm.
- Texture
- None, flutes, beads, honeycomb, and 14 patterns: rays, swirl, ripples, waves, zebra, blobs, scales, stripes, dots, hearts, flowers, checker, terrazzo, leopard.
- Mark
- A word 6 to 30 mm tall or a logo 8 to 40 mm tall; inlaid flush in a second colour, engraved, or raised. A word too long for the front is set smaller, with a note.
- Printer
- Sized for an A1 mini bed or a 256 mm bed (A1, P1S, X1C). Too long for the bed: fewer compartments, with a note.
Printing tips
Tip.The caddy prints standing on its floor, without supports, textures included.
The 3MF keeps each colour as its own object, so a printer with automatic filament changes (such as a Bambu Lab AMS) prints it in one go. With one colour, print every object in the same filament.
A caddy with a cafe's or a shop's logo is a small branded piece for a counter or a hotel room. See 3D printing business ideas.
Questions
What size are standard tea bags?
A tea bag in its paper envelope is about 72 x 78 mm. Sizes vary by brand, so measure yours and pick custom if it differs.
Can it hold coffee sticks or spice packets?
Yes. There are presets for coffee sticks, spice packets and soup packets, or any bag 15 to 160 mm wide.
Does it need supports?
No. The tray and its textured walls print standing, without supports.
Can I put my logo on it?
Yes. Upload an SVG, PNG or JPG; lines too thin to print are noted, or drawn bolder if you turn that on. You must hold the rights to the logo.
What file do I get?
A 3MF, which keeps each colour as its own object for a multi-colour printer, or an STL. Every file is checked before it downloads: closed (watertight) geometry, a single shell and walls thick enough to print.
Is it free?
The free plan gives 3 designs a month on each generator. Selling the printed pieces needs the Seller or Studio plan, which include the commercial licence.
Licence
On the Free and Maker plans you may print your designs for yourself and as gifts, not for sale. Selling the printed pieces needs the Seller or Studio plan, which include the commercial licence and a licence certificate for each design. Pieces made during the free beta, before paid plans launched, may still be sold on the terms of that time. The exported files themselves can never be resold or redistributed, on any plan.
This is a summary. Read Can I sell rings I 3D print with Morcano? and the Terms, which are the authoritative text.
