Recently functional 3d printing helped us to avoid a wardrobe disaster. One of the brackets broke sending all dresses down in a messy pile. After a few hours, the disaster was averted – the dresses are now neatly placed back and waiting for their turn to go out 
Amazing 
Awesome!! I did something similar with those crappy window blind clips that kept breaking - designed a replacement in Fusion 360 and printed in my Prusa i3!
@BK_Hobby Good job! We designed our item in TinkerCad. Doesn’t matter how it looks, main thing it works
Well I think it looks great! And, it definitely shows that 3d printing can be used for functional around-the-house-fixes and not just trinkets or vases (not that there is anything wrong with printing those!)
@BK_Hobby Yeah, sort of advanced screwdriver
There are so many uses for having a 3D printer. I’ve made all kinds of stuff from new parts for my printer to a pot for my cactus.
Hmm. Okay quick solved problem.
On the other hand stands that these parts costs just 1,20 - 1,30 (per pair) @ home improvement.
So calculate 30 min programming and (did you say 6 h?) printing time…
This against driving to the shop and buying this piece…
Okay, printing made fun. And you did it well.
But I think in this case it was (just in a calculation) not a good deal.
I would likely try something like this. @Marcel , time is a calculation of (timevalue) - (educationvalue) - (retailcost). If you value the education, then it is a great deal.
My concern would be the part delaminating, splitting between the layers, dropping the stuff on the floor again.
@Marcel 2,5h print for two items. But think about customization, think about Mars and Moon or other remote locations
I’ve found that making brackets, holders and clamps is the best place for quick wins with my printers. Especially where replacement parts have to be customised or are unobtainable.
@Robert_Rapplean I wrote that this is just the pure calculation.
Printing made fun (I wrote too).
It is the feeling of made something by your self.
Education is truly another point. Of course.
Years ago a gas-switch of my BBQ was broken. Just a tiny peace of plastic like the one of this posting.
But there was no way to buy another.
Will just say, sometimes it is in any way a great deal of printing stuff by yourself. But some peaces are not cost efficiency to do it.
(anyway that it will make fun and bring education)
@3DWithUs of course, at the moon or on the Mars you won’t have an home improvement store (at the moment 
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I think there is a printer on the iss.
I suspect that a 3d-printable model library will go along with any 3d printer that’s sent to Mars or the Moon. It would be silly for a mars explorer to have to spend time figuring out the geometry for a NASA designed support bracket. For the level of reliability that space explorations require, I would even suspect that printing a replacement thing could be done with an offhand voice command.
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@Robert_Rapplean We believe that new generation will be basic CAD educated and those sent to Mars will be good at it. Just in case.
@3DWithUs , Of course. Nowhere would the concept of “programming matter” be more relevant. The concept of not re-inventing the SMTP server will be similarly relevant.