Creating 3D Printed Models with Blender and the Shapeways Printing Service

Posted by scrubs on May 27, 2011 1:43 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Terry Hancock
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One of the most exciting technological trends in recent years has been the rise of “3D printing” technologies for rapid prototyping of arbitrary shapes. I’ve written about this before for Free Software Magazine, but this month I finally got to try the technology out for myself — in order to create “study models” (a fancy name for “toys”) for my video project, Lunatics. In this column, I’m going to walk through the complete process, from creating 3D models to receiving the final product in the mail.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

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