Thingaverse 3D Printing Files and OpenSCAD

thingaverseMy pal, Theresa Paltzat, found this site for those who are building their makerspaces with 3D printers. From the site: “MakerBot’s Thingiverse is a thriving design community for discovering, making, and sharing 3D printable things. As the world’s largest 3D printing community, we believe that everyone should be encouraged to create and remix 3D things, no matter their technical expertise or previous experience. In the spirit of maintaining an open platform, all designs are encouraged to be licensed under a Creative Commons license, meaning that anyone can use or alter any design.”

When I was playing around with the site, I discovered another component – a no-cost product called OpenSCAD for creating solid 3D CAD objects.
It is no-cost software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It appears that the two sites work very well together. I’d love to make that dinosaur business card on the front page!

The URL: http://www.thingiverse.com/
The Bonus URL: http://www.openscad.org/

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