Skyline Rack
Your rack already hums like a city. Now it looks like one.
Designed and checked in CAD. Not built in real life yet.
€12
STL files to download. Price includes VAT.
In the plan
What you print
Every 1U or 2U front of a 10-inch rack becomes one floor of a building: Art Deco New York, Gothic London, Paris or Tokyo neon. A spire or a pagoda roof goes on top. Mix the styles and add a floor whenever you add a server. Behind a lit floor sits a light box with one cell per room, so each window glows evenly, and black plugs for the rooms you want dark.
- Art Deco, Gothic, Paris and Tokyo fronts in 1U and 2U
- A Tokyo 1U front with room for the ports behind it
- A spire crown with a red beacon, and a pagoda crown
- Light kits for the Deco, Gothic and Paris 2U floors, the Tokyo 1U floor and the spire
Art Deco 
Gothic 
Paris 
Tokyo
Fit
What it fits
- Rack
- 10-inch, 236.5 mm between the hole centres, 1U = 44.45 mm source
- Sized for
- DeskPi RackMate T0 (4U, 222 × 200 × 241 mm inside) and T1 (8U) source
- Screws
- #10-32, the ones your rack already uses source
- On your printer
- Every piece fits 191 × 200 mm, no supports. A 10-inch front prints as two halves keyed together in the middle.
Shopping list
What you add
| Item | What for | Price | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lights4fun 100 warm-white micro LED USB string | One string lights the whole 8U stack from one USB-A port, 1.35 W | £11.99 | Shop |
| eSUN PETG Transparent Orange, 1 kg | Glass and sign colours take 1–20 g each; this is the one translucent spool we have a confirmed price for | €12.37 | Shop Ad, affiliate link |
The set in the picture (Tokyo 1U, three 2U floors, the spire), facades and light kit: 986 g of PETG, about 44 h with a 0.4 mm nozzle.
All in, plan + PETG (at €13.99–18.99 per kg) + the parts above: about €26–31 + £11.99. Not in the total: eSUN PETG Transparent Orange, 1 kg.
Prices as shown on each shop's own page on 21 Oct 2026. Print times are estimates; nothing is printed yet.
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Worth knowing
- A lit floor needs a blank or shelf U with at least 16 mm free behind the rails: the light box reaches 12.6 mm back, plus the wire.
- A facade leaves 13–26 % of its U open. Fine over blank Us, shelves and gear that breathes at the sides or back. Never put one in front of gear that pulls its air in at the front: use the Tokyo port front there (39 % open, no light box), or leave that U bare.
- The light is a soft evening glow: 1.35 W and about 4.3 lumens for the whole stack. In daylight you won't see it.
- No light kit yet for the pagoda crown, the 1U Deco, Gothic and Paris floors or the 2U Tokyo floor.
- Behind a lit floor the screws need to be 2.2 mm longer; the exact length is not checked yet. The crowns assume your rack's top frame doesn't stick out past the rails.