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[print_star]

Hi,
what is the best place to get basic 3d meshes who are high resolution and therefore
usable for printing? I do not search finished designs, more things like organic shapes
and stuff for modelling.

Thanks for any info

[LambdaFF]

There are a multitude of 3D libraries, see for yourself.
Thingiverse
myminifactory
pinshape
cgttrader
...
and google is your friend

[Bergen3D]

Hi print_star

This is an interesting question I recently asked myself since I do not really want to print stuff that other people designed and printed for themselves. You look for unfinished designs. What do you exactly mean by that?

For 3D printable "organic shapes" with "high resolution" check this sources out:

- http://www.shapeways.com (you surely know that place)
- http://www.turbosquid (quite a few 3D scanned organic shapes available here)
- http://www.voxilion.com (they offer ultra realistic UHD and HD organic 3D printable templates)
- https://cults3d.com/en (some organic looking designs under the art tab)
- http://www.yeggi.com/ (search for organic)

Please let me know if you find more high definition "organic" looking 3D models and templates.

Thx.

[LambdaFF]

You will soon find a couple hard truths about all these libraries : not all the designs you find on the net were made to be 3D printed.
2 reasons :
- you don't need a model to be manifold for it to be aesthetically pleasing. Therefore many models intended for animations / games / ... are not. And therefore it makes them nigh on useless for 3Dprinting.
- a manifold model is not necessarily easily printable either. Designing for manufacture is a mindset.

[print_star]

Hi print_star

This is an interesting question I recently asked myself since I do not really want to print stuff that other people designed and printed for themselves. You look for unfinished designs. What do you exactly mean by that?

For 3D printable "organic shapes" with "high resolution" check this sources out:

- http://www.shapeways.com (you surely know that place)
- http://www.turbosquid (quite a few 3D scanned organic shapes available here)
- http://www.voxilion.com (they offer ultra realistic UHD and HD organic 3D printable templates)
- https://cults3d.com/en (some organic looking designs under the art tab)
- http://www.yeggi.com/ (search for organic)

Please let me know if you find more high definition "organic" looking 3D models and templates.

Thx.

Hi,
thank you for all the links!
With "unfinished designs", I mean some basic mesh, because I'm not an experienced modeler when it comes to complex and realistic shapes. In most libraries you find
cups or stuff they made for their girlfriends, this is all rubish, because I would like to do my own designs with some nice base objects
I find that turbosquid and cgtrader.com have a good collection of basic shapes, while the most objects aren't optimized for 3D prinitng because
of the simple polycount, it's more like most objects have nice textures instead of printable geometries.

voxilion.com seem to have an interesting approach, very inspiring organic shapes, I've downloaded free sample files and at least their were no
problems shown in meshmixer when I hit the analize button. Meshmixer is a cool app very intuitive...but their library on 123catch, I don't know what they are for..

[print_star]

You will soon find a couple hard truths about all these libraries : not all the designs you find on the net were made to be 3D printed.
2 reasons :
- you don't need a model to be manifold for it to be aesthetically pleasing. Therefore many models intended for animations / games / ... are not. And therefore it makes them nigh on useless for 3Dprinting.
- a manifold model is not necessarily easily printable either. Designing for manufacture is a mindset.

Hi LamdaFF,
yes you are right, designing for manufacture is a mindset. I'm aware that most libraries are for animations, that's why I'm still looking for a
place where I get some high quality, printable base geometries to use it as a source for my designs.

[mavillar]

Hi,

You can find much more 3d models for 3d printing & graphical ones in stlfinder. I think it has a very powerful search engine and able to filter by repository.

I hope it helps.

Regards.