Tobi the Tapir - Low Poly ZOO

Hello, my name is Tobi

A shy, curious low-poly Malayan tapir with its famous two-tone coat, built for multi-material FDM printing. Fewer than 800 big flat facets and three colours - a dark grey body, a creamy white saddle and light grey legs - which is all it takes for the "panda in a cow's costume" look.

The saddle follows the facets, so the colour edge is crisp and nothing gets fuzzy.

Tobi is part of my Low Poly ZOO series - animals made in the same style, scale and colour language, so they look good together on a shelf.

What you get

Three pre-painted project files with the colours already assigned as MMU painting. Open the one for your printer in PrusaSlicer, load your filaments and print - no manual painting needed.

• Tapir_CORE_One_INDX_8T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 8 tools - all three colours

• Tapir_XL_5T.3mf - Original Prusa XL, 5 toolheads - all three colours

• Tapir_CORE_One_INDX_4T.3mf - Prusa CORE One INDX, 4 tools - all three colours

On a printer with two tools, print the dark grey body and the white saddle and leave the light grey parts in one of them - the saddle is what makes it a tapir.

Recommended filaments

Prusament PLA: Galaxy Black or a dark grey for the body, Pristine White or a cream for the saddle and ear tipsand a mid grey (Galaxy Silver works too) for the legs and details. Any colours work - a brown baby tapir is a filament swap away.

See it before you print it Preview3D opens 3D models and G-code the way Quick Look opens a PDF - on a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone and Apple Vision Pro. Point your camera at the code and this tapir stands on your own table in AR, at the size it will actually print. Nothing to install: it opens as an App Clip, shows the model, and leaves. Check the fit before the filament. See how big a print really is next to the shelf it is meant for. Open what can't preview. STEP, painted 3MF, STL, OBJ, glb, glTF, FBX and about a dozen more - plus G-code with a layer slider. Thumbnails in the Finder and Files, so a folder of downloads stops looking like a folder of blank pages. Publishing a model yourself? Make the same animation for it at preview3d.xfanta.com/qr - paste your model's link and get a QR code and a ready-made GIF for every file in it. Free, and it runs in your browser.

Print settings

• Size: about 120 × 49 × 79 mm as delivered (length × width × height)

• Layer height: 0.2 mm (0.15 mm for smoother facets)

• Nozzle: 0.4 mm

• Infill: 10-15 %, any pattern

• Supports: only about 9 % of the surface overhangs. Let PrusaSlicer add organic supports where it suggests them; they leave almost no marks on the flat facets.

• Orientation: as in the 3MF, standing on its four feet. The contact area is modest (about 330 mm² in total), so use a brim - it comes off the flat foot faces cleanly.

• Scaling: delivered at 120 mm long. The thinnest parts are the legs and the snout, so don't scale it down; scale up freely.

Show your print

Post your colour combinations as a Make under this model - I'd love to see them.

Please don't re-upload the model itself: recoloured copies published as new models (here or elsewhere) aren't allowed.

More animals from the ZOO series are coming - follow if you want the whole herd.