I'm looking for a model of a snowflake to 3D print, but I can't think of the correct terms to use for searching.

I remember seeing these as a kid, it was a wooden snowflake with a axle running through it vertically, and inside the large outer snowflake were smaller ones that spun independently around the axis. The result was a kind of 3D snowflake.

The closest thing I found was https://makerworld.com/en/models/732221#profileId-663861 except snowflake shapes instead of just the simple dodecagon.

I guess I could try to learn Blender or something to try to modify it (my experience with Blender very limited), but was hoping somebody smarter than me already did it.

Tim

You mean like this?

https://www.printables.com/model/3907-ready-to-print-snowflakes

Or something that gives you an output looking like this?

https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-photogra...s/28919831.html

(I've no idea on either, just wondered)

Both look awesome, but a little chunkier like the second one would be ideal.

https://www.fab.com/listings/2d3bce30-8604-402f-a3d9-2037facb314e

Is that useful?

That looks really nice.

I was more concerned with printing the whole spinning model as one unit, though.

Maybe something like https://makerworld.com/en/models/818966 will work.