3D printing can be a fun and productive hobby and skill, but there can be a lot of confusion around the files involved. Here are some you should know about.

TurboSquid is a leading website for finding 3D print files, offering a vast library of over a million models that can be downloaded and used in various projects. Established in 2000 by a team of ...

As the name suggests, Open 3D Model Viewer is a dedicated free and open-source 3D file viewer for Windows 11/10. In it, you can visualize 3D models of formats including 3DS, OBJ, PLY, DAE, STL, etc.

Not everyone with a 3D printer has the skills for creating digital 3D printing files and they depend on downloads from online 3D print files repositories. There are many options when it comes to ...

PrusaSlicer has a new feature: the ability to import a CAD model for 3D printing. Starting in version 2.5.0-beta1, PrusaSlicer can import STEP format 3D models. An imported STEP file is converted t… ...

Autodesk Meshmixer is 3D CAD software using which you can edit an OBJ model in Windows 11/10. You can edit OBJ and some other 3D files using it, such as STL, AMF, PLY, 3MF, etc.

3D printing continues its journey from laboratory to ubiquity with the introduction of a new universal file format. While the hardware becomes ever cheaper, more stable and consumer-friendly, the ...

STL files are everywhere. When there’s something to 3D print, it’s probably going to be an STL. Which, as long as the model is good just as it is, is no trouble at all. But sooner or la… ...

Stable 3D outputs 3D models in the “.obj” file format, which allows them to be edited and manipulated using most standard 3D modeling tools. Stability hasn’t revealed which data it used to ...