![]() ![]() Just getting started? Head over to first for some tutorials on how STL, for OBJ and Collada design files work, how to build basic shapes and designs, and what design features are possible in 3D printing. Downloadable designs include mustache combs, carabineers, vacuum-cleaner parts, weedwacker blades, novelty figurines, decorative vases, and all kinds of clamps, mounts, trays, and blocks. This ever-growing site lets users upload and download plans for 3D Things to print on Stratasys MakerBot Replicators, a consumer desktop 3D printer. It also contains useful links related to 3D printing, crowdsourcing, hobby printers, and 3D-print services. The site regularly reviews 3D-printing materials, printers, and designs. Categories include Material Design Rules, Fixing Models for 3D Print, and Finishing Techniques. The site’s library of tutorials is also bigger than ever. Under Make+Sell, upload designs, and the company prints the objects out of sterling silver, ceramics, alumide, and acrylic-based polymer. The site consists of a Shop section and a Make+Sell section. The site has a good search interface and houses more than 75,000 designs free for download, geared mostly towards printing with MakerBots. This year, 3D-printed-gun inventor and anarchy advocate Cody Wilson founded an uncensored torrent site to house designs for 3D-printed objects. For a PG-rated view of TPB 3D-printing news, try their popular Facebook page instead. That’s where the plans for 3D-printed guns (and other naughty designs banned from Thingaverse) are now. ![]() Last year, notorious torrent site The Pirate Bay (TPB) added a “physibles” category (at thepiratebay.sx/browse/605), defining physibles as designs or plans for 3D printers. The best page for users who want to get started is the Buyers’ Guide that lists vendors selling everything from single RepRap components to completed machines. For the uninitiated, RepRaps can make plastic parts, including its own, so self-replicates by printing a kit of itself that’s easy to assemble. The wiki-style site supports anyone working on the open-source 3D printer design or using RepRaps for production. ![]()
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