Free 3D Printer Models to Download | 3DPrinterPrices.net Getting your own 3D printer is one thing, but once you have one, what are you going to print? Below Is a collection of services offering FREE 3D models for you to download and print at home. They range from simple shapes to test your printer, technical parts like cogs and wheels, to creative and helpful prints like photo frames and phone cases. So check them out, dig around, and enjoy exploring the exciting and fun world of 3D printing! Google 3D Warehouse sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse The Google 3D Warehouse is a free, online repository where you can find, share, store, and collaborate on 3D models. My Mini Factory www.MyMiniFactory.com Myminifactory.com is a great resource for all kinds of models for 3D printing. Shapeways 3D Parts Database www.Shapeways.com The Shapeways 3D parts database is a place where you can download files for 3D printing. Thingiverse www.Thingiverse.com Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world.
Skube - Tangible interface to @lastfm & @Spotify Radio Created by Andrew Nip, Ruben van de Vleuten, Malthe Borch, and Andrew Spitz, Skube is a music player that allows you to discover and share music by physically interacting with custom designed cubes which act as an interface to Last.fm and Spotify. Two modes are included, dependant on the objects orientation, Playlist and Discovery. Playlist plays the tracks on your Skube, while Discovery looks for tracks similar to the ones on your Skube so you can discover new music that still fits your taste. To create the boxes, solidworks was used to design the objects and MaxMSP to coordinate the Skubes through a custom network. Project Page | Andrew Nip | Ruben van de Vleuten | Malthe Borch | Andrew Spitz
Free 3D Models for 3D Printing | 3D Printer Directory Submit additions and corrections to the 3D Printing Directory These websites are the major repositories for finding and downloading free 3D models for use with a 3D printer. The sites files range from very simple free 3D models to very complex 3D models. 3D Content Central 3D ContentCentral hosts free 2D and 3D CAD files from engineers and firms. 3D Parts Database The Shapeways 3D parts database is a place where you can download free 3D models free for 3D printing. Gold plated brass.Released for a limited time: Elasto Plastic that’s flexible and impact resistant. CG Trader CG Trader has both chargeable and free models, both those ready for 3D printing and those not. Operated by Defense Distributed, the site was a makeshift response to Makerbot Industries’ decision to censor firearm-related files uploaded at Thingiverse. GrabCAD GrabCad is a site for engineers to show off and share their CAD works, with over 75,000 free models available. .stl filter available. TurboSquid Thingiverse
DEFCAD Launches ‘The Pirate Bay’ of 3D Printing The people behind the first 3D-printable gun have quietly launched a brand new search engine for 3D-print models. The site, defcad.com, is currently in alpha release but even without press attention its library has quickly grown to nearly 75,000 files. Like The Pirate Bay, the new search engine allows users to add links without storing any of the files on its own servers. "We hope to build a piece of infrastructure to help stem the next wave of the IP wars in advance," founder Cody Wilson tells TorrentFreak. Late last year the 3D print website Thingiverse decided to ban 3D gun designs, citing their terms of service which clearly prohibit files used to make weapons. In a response Defense Distributed, the people behind the first 3D printable gun, threw up a website to host the designs that had been banned at Thingiverse. The files in question were removed, but at the same time DEFCAD was already working on a new project that would be harder to censor.
Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects Sculpteo wants to be a 3D Shutterfly 3D printers are getting easier to use and cheaper to own, and 3D printing services like Shapeways and i.Materialise have been around for a while. Still, the technology hasn’t quite caught fire. Clement Moreau, the CEO and co-founder of Paris-based Sculpteo, thinks he can change that. His solution? Software that takes the glitches out of custom 3-D printing. Custom 2-D printing is being used just about everywhere. Moreau says 3-D printing hasn't caught on because it’s hard to design 3-D objects—you have to be pretty good at manipulating CAD files, and the design files the average person sends to a 3-D printing service are, more often than not, a mess. Moreau came to Silicon Valley last week to convince investors, potential partners, and local press that his company has the secret sauce that will make 3D printing as easy to use for consumers as photoprint services like Shutterfly. So Sculpteo set out to automate the file-fixing process, analyzing the bad files received.