I designed this section of Toy Train Track for MakerBot printing. It's compatible with the Thomas, Ikea and Brio brand wood toy train tracks.

For larger objects, getting raft and lower layers to stay stuck can be a challenge. Earlier simple copies had serious warpage issues, so I changed to a lattice structure. This gives the lower layers a chance to flex and cool independent upper geometry. There was still some separation of the raft from the build platform, but it was minor compared to previous iterations.

The main track portion of the fabject is 54mm long and 40mm wide. Total length is 72mm.

Note: The socket-side tends to be a bit tight with some track; you may need to widen the hole for a looser fit.

Biertasche - a solid bag for beer and other things..

New and Improved version of this can be found here: thingiverse.com/thing:1118

A friend who works in data recovery often needs to handle many hard drives and have then easily accessible.

So yesterday we had a small CAD'n'lazzzor session and we created this mount for 8 hard drives. It's cut from 2mm HDPE. The orange thing is rubber to prevent the disks from gliding away when you move the mount.

This is a stylus that I made for a friend of mine who had lost the one in his NDS lite. This one fits rather nicely into the DS lite's dedicated stylus slot, and works very well on its touch screen. I'm sure you can use it on other screens, as well.

This is a vector file for cutting chess pieces on a cnc machine or laser cutter.

I tried to print this one, but I scaled it to big... and it was warping a lot.
Perhaps printing a mini version?

UPDATE: Today I printed a smaller one, and it works like a charm!

When I was a child I made slingshots out of wood... Living in a city nowadays (Ghent, Belgium) I can relive my youth by printing them. I hope one day my children will use tools like this to explore their creativity :-).

A hard, printable business card case, perfect for carrying around those fragile, elaborate business cards.

Got an Empire State Building model off Google 3D warehouse and hacked the crap out of it to make it printable. Then I scaled it up to 120mm tall and printed it out. Can you say "New Record Height"?

:)

wiki.makerbot.com/hall-of-fame-tallest-print

Stormtrooper head.
Imported from Max->3ds->FBX Converter->FBX->Maya->STL->Art of Illusion->STL.

This was printed on a MakerBot with Skeinforge parameters tuned to 0.25 mm/layer.

What happens when you fuse a 3D Brain model with Walt's head? BrainyWalt!

This 43" tall, 46" square dining table assembles with no hardware or glue. It is incredibly sturdy.

The table is square because it promotes better community with no one placed at the head of the table and everyone equidistant, allowing for better conversation.

The table takes 2 4"X8" sheets of 18mm plywood. Most cabinet grade plywood from Home Depot is 18mm and inexpensive. The one in my home is made from high grade birch ply.

Please check out jeffreymatthias.com to see some of my other work.

Someday, I will alter the design to allow for an expanding top to accommodate 8 people.

I've added a photo of it in our home for an idea of how big it is.

Back in July Switched.com challenged us to design and make a set of salt and pepper shakers, all in one day! We took care of the design end, and the shakers were made by awesome 3-D printing technology from MakerBot.

We've always wanted to design a set of salt and pepper shakers to match Egg Pants, one of our most successful products. This finally gave us the chance to do it. We bring you Salt and Pepper Hats! We're so happy with how they turned out that we will be taking them one step further and turning them into a product for our line, which should be available by winter 2009.

In the meantime, we're offering up the files for our prototypes - download away and make your very own! Want Egg Pants to go with them? Get a pair here: designglut.bigcartel.com/product/egg-pants

While talking to Zach I got inspired to model lego bricks in order to create custom bricks - the ones you always wanted but thought you never could get. Well now you can!

Of course it does not snap in place as nicely as original lego bricks but it should be good enough to create the custom lego piece you always wanted.

I grabbed this from Google Earth, which has a very nice open license and it really needs some changes to print well.

My approach with the SKP or KMZ files is to work with them in the free version of sketchup and then use my trial version of sketchup pro to export them. Because I have 8 hours of trial time on the pro and it only takes a minute to export them, that works for me.

If someone wants to create a derivative and go in and make the book go all the way down to her hip, that would help make it so that it wouldn't start printing in mid air.