Your first Thing in 10 minutes

By the end of this walkthrough you will have a phone stand that fits your phone, ready to send to your slicer. Along the way you will meet the four habits that make Solid Vibes click: describe, preview, adjust, check.

Budget about ten minutes. The whole project costs roughly 10 to 20 credits in Fast mode, and your trial includes 300.

Before you start

Grab your phone and a ruler or calipers. Measure the width and the thickness including its case. Real numbers beat guesses, and this is the one habit worth building early.

Step 1: Describe it (1 minute)

On Home, under "What do you want to make?", type:

A phone stand for a phone that is 75 mm wide and 9 mm thick with its case. Tilted back 65 degrees. Leave a gap at the bottom for a charging cable. I will print it in PETG.

Replace 75 and 9 with your measurements. If you would rather click, pick Phone stand from the template carousel instead.

Step 2: Answer the quick questions (1 minute)

The agent asks about three things, typically size, weight and mounting or placement. A live preview builds while you answer, so you can watch your answers change the shape. Not sure about a measurement? Use "measure with my phone camera", or answer in your own words and fix it later. Nothing here is final.

Step 3: Review the ghost preview (2 minutes)

The proposed stand appears translucent. Orbit around it. In the change summary you will see something like "+6 steps to your recipe" and the parameters it created.

Open the agent trace if you are curious. It lists what the agent did and how confident it was. Beginners can leave it collapsed.

Choose Accept. The ghost becomes solid, and the steps join the Recipe.

Step 4: Adjust with Parameters (2 minutes)

Open the Parameters panel. You will find named sliders such as the stand's width, the tilt angle, and the wall thickness. The exact names depend on what the agent chose, and you can rename them by asking.

1. Drag the tilt slider from 65 to 55 degrees. The model rebuilds instantly.
2. Set the width to leave about 2 mm of slack beyond your phone's measured width.
3. Notice that nothing broke. The cable gap stayed in the middle of the stand, because the agent wrote its position as a formula of the width, not as a fixed number.

Step 5: Use "this" (1 minute)

Click the front lip of the stand, the small ridge that stops the phone sliding off. It highlights as your selection. Now type or hold Space and say:

Make this 3 mm taller.

"This" means whatever you have selected. You get a new ghost preview. Accept it.

Step 6: Check it will print (2 minutes)

Click Make in the step bar, choose 3D Print (FDM), and pick your printer and PETG. You get:

• a printability score,
• a heatmap that glows where risk is,
• an issues list, each with a Fix button,
• estimates for print time, material, and whether supports are needed.

If the check suggests a fix, try it. The fix is itself a previewable change.

Step 7: Export (30 seconds)

Choose 3MF (or STL) and open the file in your slicer. Both formats are included in every plan, including the free trial.

What you just learned

• You described a goal and the agent did the modeling.
• Every change was a preview you accepted.
• Parameters let you change the design without redoing it.
• "This" lets you speak about the model without naming things.
• The printability check catches problems before you waste filament.

Try it next

Repeat the whole loop for something of your own. Describe it, check the preview, then tighten it up with real numbers:

A stand for my tablet, 180 mm wide and 8 mm thick with its case, tilted back 70 degrees, with a lip at the front 12 mm tall. Print in PETG without supports. Ask me before you assume any size.

Where to go next

• Talking to the agent covers text, voice, images, and pointing.
• Designing for 3D printing explains why the check said what it said.
• Prompt cookbook shows how to word requests so the first try lands.