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Stained Glass Layout System - Squares

Stained Glass Layout System - Squares

Set the biggest panel you build; the kit composes every size up to it. Longest bars sized to fit your printer.

$6.99

FROM $14.99 printed & shipped

Snap-together bars and corners that hold the outer bounds of a stained glass panel while you build it. Tell us the biggest panel you work on and we'll create the kit. The bar ladder composes every size up to your maximum, so one box lays out hundreds of different panels.

Configure & buy

A panel is only square if something holds it square. These are the forms that do it: flat bars that snap end to end, and 90° corners that lock them into a rectangle you can build against.

The corner square is exactly the width of a bar, so it sits entirely in the crossing zone where two sides meet — which means the opening is the sum of the bar lengths and nothing else. Lay out 200 + 100 and you get a 300 mm side.

A kit for 1000 mm panels builds 780 different rectangles in 25 mm steps.

The Layout System is available in metric or imperial, whichever you're more comfortable with. The three piece clip-together case is included and sized to the kit you just created. It comes as top & bottom shells and a print-in-place hinge.

For truly interesting shapes and creative flexibility, team the up with our Ovals or Rounds kit.

Highlights

Engraved lengths, two-color ready

Every bar is labelled 0.8 mm deep with a matching flush inlay, so the size reads at a glance.

Sized to your printer

The long bar is dropped automatically if your bed cannot take it, and the kit makes up the difference in shorter bars.

Folding case, sized to the kit

An optional case solved from the pieces it has to hold, with a hinge that prints in place and comes off the plate working.

Compatibility

The Squares kit is connector, size and length compatible with our Rounds and Ovals kits for ultimate flexibility and creative freedom.

Gallery

Amazingly compact case for kit that can do up to a 500 mm square.
Tight quarters, but big results!
The 500 mm kit full-size square layout. For scale, the case is a hair over 8 inches wide.
You get bars that allow you to do any rectangle or square up to the maximum you select. The clips are a very positive and rigid connection.

Configure & buy

In your download

  • Print-ready 3MF platesEvery part laid out on plates packed to your printer's bed and sorted by filament color — open in your slicer and go.
  • Every STLThe individual part meshes as well, if you'd rather arrange the plates yourself.
  • A parts listA manifest of every part and how many of each, so you know exactly what you're printing.
  • An assembled 3D model in your colorsThe whole thing built and colored the way you configured it — your reference while you print and put it together.

Configure your kit

Units

This sets the bar ladder and what is engraved on each piece — 50/75/100/125/150/200 mm, or 2/3/4/5/6/8 in. The two kits interchange: same joint, same 15 mm width, same 4.5 mm thickness, so pieces from either one snap together. Only the numbers differ.

Largest panel you want to lay out

Give it the biggest panel you work on. The kit is solved from that — several of every length, in matched pairs, because opposite sides of a rectangle need matching pieces. It builds every size up to this one, in 25 mm steps, not just the one you typed.

Printer

Case

Every kit comes with its folding case, and the case is solved from the kit rather than picked — the bars are packed on their side the way you would pack them, and the case is built around what that comes to. Its hinge prints in place and comes off the plate already working, and the lid carries the size of the set it holds.

Colors
PrimarySecondaryTertiary

The size engraved on each bar is a flush inlay, 0.8 mm deep with its own part — so on a multi-filament printer the numbers come out in the second color. On a single-extruder printer, print the bars and skip the inlays: the engraving still reads.

Price: $6.99

Click “Update 3D preview” to see your largest panel laid out in 3D.
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Add your printer

We size every model to your printer, so we need to know how big it can print. It’ll be saved for the next person with the same machine.

These are the printable sizes — the biggest part your printer can actually make, the numbers your slicer shows as the build volume. Not the bed or the removable plate, which are usually a little bigger.

Optional — build plate and printer-stand measurements

The build plate is the removable sheet you pop prints off; it’s usually a little bigger than the printable area. A plate rack is cut to the sheet, not the bed.

A printer stand is built around your printer’s feet. Give us all four and we can build you one — or skip them and add them later. Measure the BASE — the slab it stands on — not the machine’s widest point. Gantry legs, Z columns and X arms usually overhang the base and hold up nothing.

Where to measure your printer's feet Looking down on the printer's base with the front at the bottom. A is the full width of the base across the front. B is the diameter of one foot. C is from the base's front edge back to the center of the front foot. D is from the base's side edge in to that same center. FRONT rear feet — not needed A D C B
Looking down on the base, front at the bottom.

My printers

Every model is sized to the printer doing the printing, and the logo and engraved sizes come as color inlays only where you can print them. The one at the top is the one new configurations start on — pick any row to make it that.

Adding one is the same picker: choose it in My Printer, or .

Choose your colors

Every model on the site opens in these three. Primary is the largest surface, secondary the part that contrasts with it, and tertiary the accent — feet, trim, the parts that tie it together.