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A 3D-Printed Nod to Lady Liberty

By David / January 21, 2021

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This company lets you 3D print your own custom medium format camera

By David / January 20, 2021

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How To Build Your Own Mars Rover Using 3D Printer: ESA Shares Tutorial

By David / December 1, 2020

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User-friendly software and 3D printing lets non-specialists design and build products

By David / November 21, 2020

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Scale Modeling Tutorials: 3D Modeling Basics for 3D Printing

By David / November 21, 2020

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The World’s Biggest 3D Printing Projects

By David / November 21, 2020

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Astounding 3D-printed human heart model cuts and sutures like the real thing

By David / November 21, 2020

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8 Amazing Things You Can Make with 3D Printing

By David / October 7, 2020

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Safety, Accuracy, and Speed: 3D Technology in Medicine

By David / September 30, 2020

Our 12 Most Popular Posts in 3D Models (Ranked by View Count)

STEP to STL – How to Convert STEP Files to STL

CAD lets you construct complex 3D models that can later be 3D printed. Find out how to bring these models ...
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35 Best Sites for Free STL Files & 3D Printer Models of 2018

This is a selection of the best 3D printing websites, model repositories, marketplaces and websites for free 3D printer models ...
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Beginner’s Guide to Painting 3D Prints (PLA & ABS)

3D models can be great in their natural form, but sometimes you need to spice things up. Explore this detailed ...
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This 13-year-old makes hyper-realistic, 3D-printed dollhouses that sell for $700 a piece — take a look

While many people are stuck inside self-quarantining, social distancing and finding ways to pass time, Ella Doyle, a 13-year-old from ...
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2019 Best Sites for 3D Models & STL Files for CNC Routers

So you bit the bullet and have a new CNC machine. It's all dialed in and ready to go, but ...
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Sekiro’s famous Shinobi prosthetic arm has been 3D printed

While E3 rages on in the background the maker community continues to work on their various projects with the latest ...
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You Can Download and 3D Print NASA’s Multi-Tool, and Other Space-Related Stuff, for Free

Special thanks to Core77 reader Richard Chritz: After reading " Smithsonian Makes Images, 3D Scans and CAD Files from Archive ...
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Giant Scale RC A350 Airliner Using Carbon Fibre And 3D Printing

Large scale RC aircraft are pleasure to see on the ground and in the air, but putting in the months ...
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Project Orbit 3D printed record player

Makers and vinyl record enthusiasts wishing to build their very own 3D printed record player may be interested in a ...
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This Innovative 3D Printer Design Folds for Portability

Most FFF (Fused-Filament Fabrication) 3D printers can be categorized as one of two types: Cartesian or delta. . Cartesian 3D ...
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How to Create a 3D Model from Photos

If you are looking to create a 3D model from photos, then we have the perfect article for you. We ...
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A new, high-precision method for 3D-printing small, soft objects

The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of ...
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Nine Most Recent Posts in 3D Modeling

Clemson engineering grad goes viral for homemade Iron Man suit

by David | Jan 21, 2021 | 3D Models, 3D News | 0 Comments

A recent Clemson engineering major has gone viral online for her homemade Iron Man battle suits. Emily Yarid has more than 2 million followers on TikTok and close to 150k followers on Instagram for her homemade Marvel creations; her most popular video consisting of...

A 3D-Printed Nod to Lady Liberty

by David | Jan 21, 2021 | 3D Models, 3D News, Companies | 0 Comments

A specialty manufacturer of high-resolution micro-scale 2D and 3D printing systems has 3D printed a micron-sized replica of “The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World.” Microlight3D printed the world’s tiniest Statue of Liberty, a replica measuring 1.8 mm high by...

This company lets you 3D print your own custom medium format camera

by David | Jan 20, 2021 | 3D Hobbyists, 3D Models, 3D News, Maker Movement | 0 Comments

You no longer need to pop to the shops to buy your camera equipment – or even buy them online and wait for them to ship. Now you can simply print your cameras in the comfort of your own home! . Dora Goodman, the Founder of Goodman Camera, has created a business out...

YouTuber 3D prints life-size model of DJI’s FPV drone from images

by Paul | Dec 28, 2020 | 3D Models, Maker Movement, People | 0 Comments

YouTuber DronesGator has managed to impressively 3D print DJI’s upcoming FPV drone by taking measurements from leaked images. The video goes in-depth into measuring, modeling, printing, and painting the drone to match the images we have seen of it. The DJI FPV drone...

3D Printing Drone Swarms, Part 2: Why 3D Print UAVs?

by Paul | Dec 16, 2020 | 3D Models, Aerospace and Aviation | 0 Comments

Elbit Skylark C a 15-kilogram drone with a five-hour flight time. In the previous article in this series, I’ve tried to show you the relevance of drones and why they have been much more important than you may think in modern wars. . From the 80s to the present day,...

How To Build Your Own Mars Rover Using 3D Printer: ESA Shares Tutorial

by David | Dec 1, 2020 | 3D Hobbyists, 3D Models, 3D News, Maker Movement | 0 Comments

ESA's Planetary Robotics Laboratory designed a mini version of the ExoMars rover The smaller version, ExoMy, can be built by anyone with a 3D printer ExoMy's design has all the key features of the ExoMars rover and includes a customizable face A six-wheeled rover...

User-friendly software and 3D printing lets non-specialists design and build products

by David | Nov 21, 2020 | 3D Models, 3D News, Design / Engineering, Maker Movement, Software | 0 Comments

The digital revolution has changed how products are designed. Today digital data from a 3D model, produced predominantly using a CAD system, is exported to CAM software, which is used to convert that model into a file format that can be sent to a fabrication tool that...

Scale Modeling Tutorials: 3D Modeling Basics for 3D Printing

by David | Nov 21, 2020 | 3D Hobbyists, 3D Models, 3D News, Software | 0 Comments

In my last article, I discussed the use of 3D printing for scale model hobbyists. Hobbyists are discovering 3D printing to be a useful tool to make customized parts, or even create detailed models from scratch and shared a few of my own 3D printed models. . 3D...

The World’s Biggest 3D Printing Projects

by David | Nov 21, 2020 | 3D Models, 3D News | 0 Comments

If you have a 3D printer, you’re probably using it to make cool video game models. But other visionaries around the globe are finding new and epic applications for 3D technology. . Doctors can already make custom prosthetics, and soon, they’ll be making human organs....