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Gift box generator: 3D print a box with a ribbon and bow

Design a gift box that looks wrapped: a box in one of six shapes, a lid, a ribbon over it, a bow on top and a gift tag with your words. Cover it in dots, stars, hearts or your own SVG, put texts, logos and pictures on the lid, the walls or the floor inside, and print every part in its own colour - or one colour at a time.

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A 3D printed navy gift box with a gold ribbon with a white stripe and a gold star bow

Watch the tutorial

Every option in about six minutes, with subtitles: designs and views, the box, lid, ribbons and bows, the pins, texts, SVGs and pictures, the gift tag, patterns and printing. Watch on YouTube ↗

1Open the generator

Click Gift box in the Generators list on the left, or the button above. It opens on the Classic design - a white box, a red ribbon across the lid and a rosette bow - and every change shows at once in the view. Nothing is added to your project until you click Create gift box.

The Gift box tile in the Generators list — The **Gift box** tile.

The info box: a 90 by 90 by 60 mm box, the lid, the bow, about 109 g, holds about 436 ml — The info box: size, lid, bow, weight and how much it holds.

The Gift box generator open on the Classic design, the panel on the right — The Classic gift box. The panel on the right is in numbered steps.

2Closed and Print layout

The switch at the top of the panel shows the box Closed (the lid on, the bow on top - as you give it) or in the Print layout (what Create gift box makes: the box upright, the lid upside down beside it with its top flat on the bed, the bow and its pins beside them). Under it, the info box gives the size, the lid, the bow, about how many grams it weighs and how much it holds; How to print and put it together opens the steps.

The view switch: Closed and Print layout

The Classic box closed, seen from the front and above — Closed.

The Classic box laid out for printing: the box, the lid upside down and the bow — Print layout.

3Start from a design

1 · Start from sets the whole box in one click: Classic, Navy & gold (a striped gold ribbon and a star bow), Birthday (pink with white dots, a yellow ribbon and loops), Heart (a heart box with a flat bow and a tag), Hat box (round, up stripes and a band round it) and Christmas (green with gold stars and a double ribbon). Change anything afterwards - the design then becomes your own.

The Start from card with the six designs

The six designs: Classic, Navy and gold, Birthday, Heart, Hat box and Christmas — The six designs.

4The box

Shape - Square, Round, Oval, Hexagon, Octagon or Heart.
Size - the chips Small, Medium, Large, Long and Cube, or Width, Depth and Height in mm (a round box: Ø), and Corners for the square, hexagon and octagon.
Wall and Floor - their thickness.
Split ↔ / Split ↕ - walls inside the box, for compartments.
Box colour.

The Box card: shape tiles, size chips, width, depth, height, corners, wall, floor, splits and the box colour

The Classic box in six shapes: square, round, oval, hexagon, octagon and heart — The six shapes.

5The lid

Over the box - a lid that slides down over the box, like a shoe box; Skirt = how far it comes down.
Lip inside - a flat lid with a lip that drops inside the box; Lip = how deep.
No lid - an open box; the ribbon goes round its walls.
Fit on the box - Tight, Normal or Loose (the gap per side), the lid's Top and Wall thickness, and the Lid colour.

The Lid card: over the box, lip inside, no lid, the fit, skirt, top, wall and the lid colour

A lid over the box, laid out for printing beside the box — Over the box, laid out for printing.

A flat lid with a lip, upside down beside the box — Lip inside.

6The ribbon

4 · Ribbon wraps the box in one of seven ways: Cross, One way, Double (two ribbons each way, a Gap apart), Diagonal, Band round (like a hat box, Band at its height), Cross + band or None. It follows any shape of box.

Width and Raised (how far it stands out of the walls). On the lid's top it is always flat (the lid prints upside down); On the walls it is Raised or Flat.
Its look - Plain, Stripe (a stripe of a second colour down its middle) or Edges (its edges in a second colour).
Cross at X / Y - move where the ribbons cross (the bow goes there); Down the box's walls too - off, the ribbon is only on the lid.
Ribbon colour and the stripe or edge colour.

The Ribbon card: seven ribbon tiles, width, raised, on the walls, its look, cross at, down the walls and its colours

The six ribbons: cross, one way, double, diagonal, band round and cross with a band — The ribbons.

A red ribbon with a yellow stripe down its middle — Stripe.

7The bow

5 · Bow - thirteen bows, each printed on its own, flat side down: Rosette, Star, Loops, Flat bow, Double bow, Flower, Daisy, Hearts, Swirl, Curly, Snowflake, Butterfly and Pinwheel - or None. Set its Size and Height (a rosette or a star also its Layers and Petals / Points) and the Bow colour (the ribbon's by default). It sits where the ribbons cross; with a band or no ribbon, place it with X and Y.

The Bow card: thirteen bow tiles, size, height, layers, petals, the pins and the bow colour

The thirteen bows on the lid, close up — The thirteen bows.

8Pins that hold the bow

Two pins join the bow to the lid. Pins to the lid: None (glue it on), Small (Ø 1.6 mm, for small bows), Normal (Ø 2.4 mm) or Big (Ø 3.2 mm - the strongest), then Pin Ø and Fit (the room round each pin in its hole) to fine-tune. The pins print lying flat beside the bow. The holes in the lid stop 0.6 mm short of its inside, so nothing shows when the box is opened - with pins the lid's top is made at least 2.2 mm thick. A bow too thin for the pins you picked says so: pick smaller pins, or glue it.

Pins to the lid: None, Small, Normal and Big, the pin diameter and fit

The bow and its two pins lying on the bed for printing — The bow and its two pins, ready to print.

The lid upside down: its inside smooth, no holes showing — The lid's inside - no holes show.

9Texts, SVGs and pictures

6 · Texts & pictures has a tab for each face: Lid, Front, Back, Left, Right and Inside (the floor - a hidden message), each with how many items it holds. Add a Text (any font), an SVG (a logo or icon) or a Picture (in its colours). Every item is a row - click it to open its settings:

A text: its words, the Font and B / I / U. An SVG: Change SVG….
How it is made - on the walls and inside Raised, Flat (inlaid in its own colour) or Engraved; on the lid Flat or Engraved, because the lid's top lies on the bed.
Size, X, Y and Turn, its Colour, Move it to another face, Duplicate and Remove.

Or work in the view: click a text, SVG or picture to select it, drag it along its face, drag the blue knob to turn it (Shift: 15° steps) and a corner to size it. It snaps to the face's middle lines - hold Alt to place it anywhere. Double-click one to open its row. Things on the lid are dragged in the Closed view; on the floor, with the lid off or in the Print layout.

The Texts and pictures card: the face tabs, the add tiles and the items

A text item opened: its text, font, how it is made, size, place, turn, colour and move it to

HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the front wall, selected, with its corner dots and turn knob — A text on the front wall, selected: drag it, its corners and its knob.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY raised on the front wall — Raised.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY flat, inlaid in the wall — Flat.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY engraved into the wall — Engraved.

A blue heart SVG inlaid in the lid, seen from above — An SVG on the lid.

10Pictures and colour heights

A picture is split into a few colours (Colours in the picture, 2-8; Keep its background for a picture without a plain background). Its Colour heights: the presets Flat, Dark up, Light up and Steps, and for every colour its swatch (the filament colour - click it to change), its share and its height in mm: above 0 it stands up by that much, below 0 it sits that deep in a pocket. On the lid only sinking counts.

A picture item opened: colours, keep its background, how it is made, size and place, and the colour heights

A cat picture on the right wall of the box, in its colours — A picture on a wall.

The cat with its dark outline raised — Dark up.

An open box with Love you! raised on its floor inside — A hidden message on the floor inside.

11The gift tag

Tick 7 · Gift tag for a tag on the lid: its words (up to three lines), the Font, On a tag (a luggage tag with a hole) or Letters only, the Size of the letters, X / Y (empty = the front right quarter), Turn, and the tag and text colours. It is inlaid flat in the lid's top.

The Gift tag card: its text, font, on a tag or letters only, size, place, turn and colours

A yellow luggage tag with For you on the lid — On a tag.

For you in script letters on the lid — Letters only.

12Patterns - and your own SVG

8 · Pattern covers the box: Dots, Stars, Hearts, Confetti, Stripes, Up stripes or Your SVG - any shape from an SVG file (pick the tile and choose the file; Change SVG… later). Where - the Lid, the Box or Both; On the walls Flat or Raised; Size, Spacing (centre to centre), Turn for your SVG, and the Pattern colour. It keeps clear of the ribbon, the tag and the bow, and follows any shape of box.

The Pattern card: eight pattern tiles with Your SVG picked, where, on the walls, size, spacing, turn and colour

Raised yellow dots on the walls and flat ones on the lid — Dots, raised on the walls.

The box with dots, stars, hearts, confetti, stripes, up stripes and a heart SVG — The patterns - the last one your own SVG.

13Create, print and put it together

The Birthday box laid out for printing: the box, the lid upside down and the loops bow — Laid out for printing.

Click Create gift box: the box is added to your project laid out for printing - the box upright, the lid upside down, the bow and the pins beside them. Double-click it later to change it.
Export it: Multi-colour 3MF keeps every colour; on a one-colour printer print the box, the lid and the bow each in its own filament (the ribbon and the pattern then share the part's colour, or change filament at the heights the slicer shows).
Press the two pins into the bow, then the bow onto the lid. No pins: a drop of glue.
Put the lid on - and your gift in.

Questions

Can I 3D print a gift box with a ribbon and a bow?

Yes. The box, the lid, the ribbon, the bow and everything on them are separate coloured parts of one design. Print it in colour with a multi-colour printer (export a multi-colour 3MF), or print each colour on its own and put the box together - the bow is its own piece either way and is held on the lid by two printed pins.

How do I put the bow on the lid?

The bow prints on its own, flat side down. Two small pins print lying on the bed beside it: press them into the holes under the bow, then into the holes in the lid. The holes stop short of the lid's inside, so nothing shows in the box. Pick Small, Normal or Big pins - or None and glue the bow on.

Can I put my own text, logo or picture on the box?

Yes. Add a text in any font, an SVG or a picture on the lid, the front, back, left or right wall, or on the floor inside as a hidden message. Drag, turn and size each one right in the view. A picture is split into a few colours, each one raised or sunk with Colour heights.

Which box shapes are there?

Square (with rounded corners), round, oval, hexagon, octagon and heart - each with a lid that goes over the box, a flat lid with a lip that drops inside, or no lid at all.

Can I use my own pattern?

Yes. Besides dots, stars, hearts, confetti and stripes, pick Your SVG: your shape is repeated over the lid and round every wall, flat or raised, at the size, spacing and turn you choose.

How long does a gift box take to print?

The medium 90 x 90 x 60 mm box weighs about 110 g; most printers make it in a few hours. A smaller box or thinner walls print faster.

Make your gift box

Pick a design, choose the ribbon and the bow, add your words - and print a box that looks wrapped.

Open the Gift box generator

Also see: Greeting card generator, Box generator, Sticker generator, Add text to a 3D model and SVG to 3D model.