Good guidance.
Better builds.
Find the answer, understand the process, and keep creating. Practical help for every step from your first part to a fit you can repeat.
What are you working on?
Make your first part
Get oriented, choose a part, and follow your first complete workflow.
Explore the guideFind a better fit
Run a useful comparison, read the result, and record what works.
Explore the guideSet up for your printer
Match the machine, installed nozzle, and spool before preparing a job.
Explore the guideFind your next answer.
Search the full guide text, or explore a topic.
Getting started
8 guidesBeta access, first tests and account data
Request access, prepare a useful first test, understand private saving and ask for help with retained data.
What is Nexlock Studio?
Understand the website, its part sources, print preparation, and the path from a digital brick to a tested physical connection.
Explore Nexlock and open the Studio
Explore the information pages, enter the Studio and personalize your maker profile.
Sign in and enter Studio
Use the sign-in method configured for this Studio and keep private work with the correct account.
Customize your Nexlock profile
Personalize your maker identity, appearance and printer setup in the website or Designer.
Use My Workshop
Continue your current design, revisit private projects and calibration sessions, and review the setup for your next print.
Prepare your first print with guided setup
Review your printer, current part and geometry, then prepare a first sample with a clear slicer checklist.
Glossary of part, fit and software terms
Plain-language definitions for the terms used throughout Nexlock.
Design & parts
4 guidesUse Part Designer and the 3D viewer
Understand the current layout, source geometry, connection profile and filament preview.
Print and use the Nexlock Separator
A classic one-piece separator with a two-stud head, ribbed handle, rear tile edge and single top axle.
Find and prepare a Nexlock Brick System part
Search by number or size, save useful searches, compare catalog details, and prepare the checked source you need.
Compare and tune experimental Nexlock connection systems
Compare complete connection systems, inspect the precision manufacturing mesh and tune one system’s receiving contact before recording new evidence.
Printer & filament
3 guidesChoose the printer and installed nozzle
See the current supported models and understand the difference between hardware limits and a printing recipe.
Select filament brand, type and color
Use the Open Filament Database selection and understand which material details transfer into the recipe.
Understand the print recipe
Learn what speed, flow, cooling, layers and adhesion settings change, and how to compare them without losing the fit baseline.
Calibration & fit
11 guidesRun the current Nexlock Brick System calibration workflow
Find a suitable test from the connection problem, refine the closest printed sample, and keep exact printer recipes and physical results in Notebook.
Save calibration sessions and named setups
Resume a saved test with its exact candidates, record individual print attempts, compare recipes and keep reusable printer-and-spool setups.
Record and compare calibration results
Keep observations, measurements and photos with each exact sample, compare attempts, and choose a focused next check.
Tune connection grip and single-stud hold
Compare tighter or looser receiving fits, then refine the closest sample while preserving its stud diameter, spacing and captured print recipe.
Keep a snug fit while cleaning up corners
Compare seam restart, acceleration or flow while retaining an applied reference-stud or 4.80 mm fit.
Reference walls stay unchanged in the restored test
The current file-based test refines only studs. Earlier wall-seating setups remain available through saved profiles.
Restore the confirmed file and refine only stud grip
Return to the confirmed 2h 25m reference baseline, keeping its body and receiving geometry unchanged while testing small stud increases.
Qualify a printer, nozzle and filament for brick fit
Use research and measured connection checks to turn an exact native preset into a repeatable Nexlock Brick System process.
Pass a test and save it as Tested
Know exactly what must be measured and what a verified profile does—and does not—cover.
Understand clearance, XY and receiving fit
Separate geometry adjustments so one successful test is not accidentally undone by another correction.
Research, acceptance targets and older trials
Read the sources behind the methods without confusing published guidance with proof that your part passes.
Software & connection
3 guidesDownload software and prepare your computer
Get Nexlock Companion, the correct vendor slicer and the requirements for this actual download.
Pair the website with Nexlock Companion
Use the connection center to pair this browser, check Companion availability and review the selected slicer and release.
Update Companion from inside the app
Check, download, validate and install updates in Companion without a website handoff.
Saving & export
3 guidesUse Export & downloads
Prepare the current Designer part, choose a file or Companion handoff, and revisit download requests from this browser.
Keep projects and restore earlier revisions
Save private designs with their exact print setups, organize them in folders, and return to earlier revisions without losing history.
Use the legacy saved parts collection
Reopen existing shared setups and copy them into private Projects while preserving their original records.
Troubleshooting
3 guidesSend beta feedback and follow a report
Privately report a problem or suggestion, follow its status, and exchange details with Nexlock staff.
Fix connection, preset and export problems
A symptom-by-symptom guide that separates local pairing from native project preparation.
Diagnose loose grip, gaps and rough corners
Separate source geometry, one-stud retention, first-layer distortion and process defects.
About & updates
6 guidesManage Nexlock Studio
Manage beta feedback, members and content, review publication history, and recover settings with the permissions assigned to your account.
Service status and reusable status page
Read published service reports, follow incident updates, or reuse the standalone status starter.
Deferred build preparation
The experimental Builds and manual assembly work is retained for development; MOC remains Coming soon.
MOC availability
MOC remains Coming soon; use Designer, Calibration and Projects for available individual-part workflows.
Follow Nexlock Studio news and release updates
Browse What’s New, explore the public Roadmap and follow the release feed.
What’s new and how the wiki stays current
See the current release information, source-backed facts and recent published change summaries.
A question worth
a closer look.
Start with what you can observe. These guides connect a common symptom to a useful next step.
Explore troubleshootingWhy are my slicer settings unchanged?
Geometry downloads and native projects carry different information.
The full brick grips. Why doesn’t one stud?
Use the receiving-fit workflow and a single-stud comparison.
What does Tested actually mean?
Understand the observations required for an exact source and setup.
From Studio to your desktop slicer.
Find Companion downloads, installation steps, the pairing check, and official slicer links in one place.
Companion v1.0.0 · Windows