Grudgingly, Pixel now accepts the Dalek, but still glares at it suspiciously whenever he sees it. It sat on my desk and for a week, whenever Pixel saw the thing, he barked at it angrily. My small dog does not like the Dalek model. I wound up breaking the plunger (one of these days I'll paint the Dalek and super-glue the plunger), but after printing overnight, I finally had my very own Dalek. So I downloaded a Dalek model and printed it out. I am a sucker for robot models, and while I have a Tardis coffee mug and a small K-9 figure, I never had a Dalek. While digging around on Thingiverse, I noticed that there were a whole bunch of cool robot models. I downloaded that bad boy right away, printed it out, and within a few short hours, there were cookies. As soon as Denise saw that, she said, "If you make that, I'll bake you Batman cookies." You gotta know what I did. The very first on the list was a Batman logo. She's been in a holiday mood, which means she's been in a cookie baking mood, and so she asked me to see if there were any cookie cutters.Ī quick search brought up a list of 2,694 cookie cutter models.
3D PRINTING WEBSITES DOWNLOAD
I've been very excited by this whole 3D printing project, so I kept calling my wife over to the screen and showing her different things you could download from Thingiverse. One of the biggest is Thingiverse, with more than a million files.īefore I continue, I want to once again give a shoutout to the folks at MakerBot who provided the MakerBot Replicator I'm using for this discovery series. As it turns out, there are a number of great sites that offer useful and fun designs you can download. And as you know, once you have a file, you have file sharing. I got homemade sugar cookies out of the deal.įundamentally, a 3D printed object is a file. Before I go into the details, let me share my first experiences.
3D PRINTING WEBSITES SERIES
In this article, we're going to continue our DIY-IT discovery series on 3D printing by looking at what it takes to print an object you downloaded from the Internet. All you have to be able to do is download a file, and wait for it to print. You don't have to have an iota of design skill or experience with a 3D design program. One of my first discoveries about 3D printing was the large number of mostly-free objects people have designed and made available for you to simply download and print.
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