Showing posts with label 3D Printing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3D Printing. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Converting DEMs to STL files for 3D printing

Ever since we got a 3D printer in the Geography Department at the University of Oregon, we've wanted to print out topographic models. Thingaverse user Markus Fussenegger (mfussi) has a nice compact Java program, Heightmap to STL, for converting height map images into STL files for 3D printing. Markus's program is available on Sourceforge through Thingaverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15276).

This is just a quick tutorial on how I got his code up and running on my Windows 7 machine...