3D Design · January 2026

Designing a Mezuzah

I've started designing more things for OTHER people. This one is a mezuzah, which is a Jewish prayer scroll... the inspiration, iykyk.

A bit of background

Since this is my first blog post about design, I might as well give some background for readers.

I've loved 3D design since I was a kid. I think I started with 3DS Max or something when I was on the Jr High robotics team in 2003. Then SolidEdge in highschool and SolidWorks in university. Or vice versa. I literally can never keep them straight.

What's most remarkable to me is that the concepts that I learned as a kid (sketch, extrude, sketch some more, extrude some more) basically haven't changed at all. What's even MORE remarkable to me is that I can do it all on the cloud. I started using OnShape a couple of years ago when I first got my 3d printer, before I had a graphics card, so it made a ton of sense... and I've never felt the need to switch.

The design

Mezuzah CAD model in OnShape Mezuzah in slicer software

The result

3D printed mezuzah
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