{"id":262,"date":"2016-09-15T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/?page_id=262"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T23:26:20","slug":"sources-for-3d-printer-files","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/3d-printing\/sources-for-3d-printer-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources for 3D Printer Files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While drawing your own parts using CAD software and printing them out is amazing, there are lots of things you can download and then print without having to draw anything.&nbsp; These sites have a combination of free and purchasable files that you can choose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Ultimakers work with .stl, .3MF, and .obj files so look for those first but it&#8217;s possible to convert other solid model file types (like files from Fusion 360 or Solidworks) into a printable file fairly easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cults3d.com\/\">Cults 3D<\/a> &#8211; popular site with lots of files<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thangs.com\/\">Thangs<\/a> &#8211; new site with easy to use format<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/newest\">Thingverse<\/a> &#8211; Used to be my go-to but now is more corporate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grabcad.com\/\">GrabCAD<\/a> &#8211; most models won&#8217;t be in .stl format but there are many more engineering-type models here than on Thingverse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myminifactory.com\/\">MyMiniFactory<\/a> &#8211; Haven&#8217;t used this much either but it appears to have some nice models<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youmagine.com\/\">YouMagine<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pinshape.com\/\">Pinshape<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/3dwarehouse.sketchup.com\">3D Warehouse<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.123dapp.com\/Gallery\/content\/all\">123D from Autodesk <\/a>&#8211; Haven&#8217;t used this one but it appears to have a lot of models and might be worth some exploration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turbosquid.com\/\">Turbosquid<\/a> &#8211; never used it but appears to have lots of models, lots aren&#8217;t free though<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>STL Search Engines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlfinder.com\/\">stlfinder<\/a> &#8211; search engine for .stl files, uses above sites plus others<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yeggi.com\/\">yeggi<\/a> &#8211; another .stl search engine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to send me links to other sites you&#8217;ve used to find .stl files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While drawing your own parts using CAD software and printing them out is amazing, there are lots of things you can download and then print without having to draw anything.&nbsp; These sites have a combination of free and purchasable files that you can choose from. Our Ultimakers work with .stl, .3MF, and .obj files so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/3d-printing\/sources-for-3d-printer-files\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sources for 3D Printer Files&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"parent":264,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/262\/revisions\/708"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}