In 5 minutes to your print-ready world
You need no 3D experience and no installation. Follow these five steps, from creating the first plate to the finished STL file in your slicer.
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Create plates
Every world starts with at least one print plate, which defines the base area and the section that later goes onto your print bed. Open the plates panel and create your first plate. For larger battlefields you add more plates and arrange them into a grid; adjacent edges are aligned automatically so the pieces fit together flush.
Tip: Set the scale right at the start (e.g. D&D, 1 square = 25.4 mm) so that all following dimensions are correct.
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Shape terrain
Switch to terrain mode and reach for the brush tools. Raise and lower pull up hills and hollows, smooth takes off rough edges, and flatten creates level building surfaces for structures or paths. You can freely set the brush radius and strength, large values for mountains, small ones for fine details like a stream bed.
Tip: Work from coarse to fine: the large landform first, then details. Rotate the camera in between to check elevations from several angles.
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Paint biomes
Give your terrain character by painting surfaces: meadow, rock, earth, water. This creates believable transitions between forest, cliff and shore. The painting is not just visual: it helps you read the finished layout and place the right objects in the right spots.
Tip: Paint biomes before you place objects. On a clean surface you can see better where forest, path and water belong.
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Place objects
Drag trees, rocks, ruins, barrels or castle parts from the CC0 asset library into the scene. Worldgenerator places every object cleanly on the terrain and, where needed, raises the ground beneath it so nothing floats or sinks into a slope. Move, rotate and scale using the familiar transform gizmos; you import your own models and have them scaled automatically to tabletop size.
Tip: Duplicate placed objects instead of dragging them one by one from the library. That way you build forests and ruin fields in seconds.
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Export & print
Once you are satisfied, you export each plate as STL or 3MF with one click. Before export, Worldgenerator checks the geometry for manifold watertightness and repairs holes or open edges automatically, so the files can be sliced directly. The included report lists dimensions, volume and estimated PLA weight. If you have no 3D printer, you submit the world as a print order instead and receive a quote.
Tip: For multi-part worlds, print two adjacent plates first and check the fit before you start the whole set.
Done? Show off your world.
Upload your result to the community gallery and get inspiration for your next one.