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Hello Kitty Cup Holder

An attempt at a Hello Kitty cup akin to the likes of the Bulbasaur cup and *works
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updated November 8, 2025

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A V2 is now out that's designed better than this! Check it out below:
https://www.printables.com/model/1010158-hello-kitty-cup-v2

A very, very, very long time ago (about 4-5 years ago), I had the idea of printing a Bulbasaur cup holder in high school and one day, someone asked me to make a cup holder, but with a Hello Kitty model. I actually finished making this model about 3 years ago, but I think it's long past time I put this up somewhere. So here it is! A Hello Kitty cup holder, which is good for"normally" sized 16 oz cups (I don't if it fits other cups with more shallow angles, so... hopefully it fits).

Just very briefly in terms of how this came to existence, it took a bunch of hours figuring out how to get the original STL file in CAD software split in half (Tinkercad at the time), then tracing the face that was split in half and making an extrusion of it (Onshape), adding unfortunately somewhat uncomfortable handles to it, creating a cup shape to then merge these pieces together to make this model.

Some things to note here:

  1. This model was assembled together using Tinkercad, and thus has weird geometry below and around the sides of the cup holder. I will fix this later in actual CAD software, but for now it looks... okay to be used. (Don't get me wrong, I will improve this model, but I don't know if I have time to get to fixing this :/)
  2. No supports are necessary, but you should probably consider printing this with <15% infill and 0.3 mm layer height because this is a pretty big print like the Bulbasaur cup holder.
  3. I'm really hoping that better methods to reverse an STL file to STEP, IGES, or something exist in the future because it was really difficult to get this in its final form.
  4. There is a (cough definitely not a design flaw cough) "drain" on the side without the handle.

That being said, happy printing!

Print Settings

Printer Brand:

Airwolf 3D

Printer: 

Axiom Single

Rafts:

No

Supports: 

No

Resolution:

0.3 mm

Infill: 

15%

Filament: Unbranded PLA Purple? Blue? Idk

How I Designed This

First iteration of the cup (actually printed). This isn't in the uploaded files, but getting to here took a lot of hours already. (If you really want this model to print for some reason, just comment and I'll try to find this)

 

 

 

Category: Food & Drink

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Model origin

The author marked this model as their own original creation. Imported from Thingiverse.

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