Our 3D CAD supplier models have been moved to 3Dfindit.com, the new visual search engine for 3D CAD, CAE & BIM models.
You can log in there with your existing account of this site.
The content remains free of charge.
Once when you upload files and renders/photos of your 3D model on PARTcloud.net, simply go to the render/photo you would like to have as a privew and click on an "Image" icon (upper right corner).
1. Go to your uploaded model on PARTcloud.net and click on 3D model.
2. Use mouse to choose size and position of 3D model.
3. Lock the position by clicking on camera icon - done!
1. Download the APP
2. Activate the SKETCHER
3. use the SKETCHER
1. Go to your published 3D model on PARTcloud.net (3D SHARE)
2. Click on "Configure your code and use it in your website". Also, click on the render to be visible, not 3D model (upper red box).
3. Click on "Copy" and the link will become blue
4. Click on "Community" (upper-left)
5. Once you are on homepage, just "Paste" it on "Post Something..." and you will see the link of your 3D model. Click on "Share".
6. Your 3D model/render should be published on homepage now and it will get more attention like that!
Pick an image, (Click on it in the Images screen), set Image parameters and Model parameters. Then refresh view to see the results. If autodownload is set, the STL will download each time you refresh.
The largest X or Y dimension of the output lithophane - X if original image wide, Y if high.
The maximum Z dimension of the output lithophane.
The thickness of the border around the edge.
This is the minumum layer thickness (for the brightest pixels in the image).
Each of the pixels in the image is translated into a number of 3D points on the surface of the lithophane, the larger this number, the more detailed the output (and the larger the STL file/slower the processing) 2 is a good value for this you can go up to 5, but it will take time and use memory.
A small stand on the base for when printing vertically. Positive number for base coming forward, negative for backward.
Number of degrees to curve the surface (for the curved forms).
Set to Positive Image, lighter areas of the original image will be thinner in the output and the thicker if set to Negative Image.
Set to Mirror Image, the image will be mirrored about the X axis (for rear viewing), otherwise the output will be in the same orientation as the original image.
Set to File Image, the image will be fliped about the Y axis, otherwise the output will be in the same orientation as the original image.
Set to Manual Refresh to only recreate the model when the 'Refresh' button is pressed, set to Automatic if you'd like the model to refresh when you select the image
Set to repeat the image in the X direction prior to creating the output.
Set to repeat the image in the Y direction prior to creating the output.
Set to alternately mirror the image when the X Repeat setting is being used.
Set to alternately flip the image when the Y Repeat setting is being used.
Set to use a binary (smaller and faster) STL file format, otherwise use ASCII where needed for compatibility with other software.
If set to Automatic, the STL file will download each time you refresh the model, if set to Manula, the download will only happen when you press the download button.
Select the form of the output model from the following types
A rectangular model with the image impressed in one face. Curve setting is ignoed
A curved rectangular model with the image impressed on the inner face. Use curve setting to set the number of degrees in the arc.
A curved rectangular model with the image impressed on the outer face. Use curve setting to set the number of degrees in the arc.
A cylindrical model with the image impressed on the curved face.
A rectangular pillow model with the image impressed on the top face
A circular dome model with the image impressed as if from above the dome
A circular dome model with the image impressed as if from the edge of the dome with the image wrapping the perimeter of the dome and the top of the image meeting in the centre
A heart shaped model with the image impressed on the curved faces
With the so-called HotSpot function, additional diverse information can now be linked with a preview of the uploaded component. Those 3D CAD models become an interactive encyclopedia for engineers and members of the PARTcloud.net sharing community.
Besides videos and animated graphics, members of the community can also provide descriptions of the 3D CAD model and explain their own designs. The advantage is also shown with the sharing or embedding of the 3D CAD model in other websites: The information remains unchanged and engineers can obtain a first impression at once.
How to do it? It is very simple, just follow these guide lines:
1. Once your 3D model is uploaded on PARTcloud.net, a HotSpot can be added. Click on the icon "HotSpot Mode".
2. Choose the HotSpot location on your 3D model and click to confirm it. The "black box" is a place where the title will be shown.
3. Choose among options depending on what you would like to add. A new window appears where the information can be selected that is to be filed. Users then have a choice between texts, links, images, videos and manufacturer catalogs. The latter shows engineers, for example, which standard parts were used in the design. In this case, we will use "Link" and then "YouTube" in order to show a video clip. If you want to add an article, you can choose "Wikipedia" - it is all up to you.
4. Add the title of info you would like to provide.
5. Find what you are looking for (in this case, a video clip from YouTube) and copy-paste the link. Click on "Add".
6. The HotSpot should appear beside your 3D model. You can add as many HotSpots as you like. We added one more in this case (on bottom) to make it educational and more interesting like that.
7. Click on it and you can watch that specific YouTube video clip. You can also click on YouTube to take you directly there (black arrow). Once again, you can add any other HotSpot depending on what you would like to show: Wikipedia article, PDF catalog, Vimeo, photo, website, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6o2_8Fqu8
You can embed an interactive view of your 3D CAD models and assemblies into your website and many CAD manufacturers are already doing it.
1. Create an account on PARTcloud.net
2. Click on the upload button at the top of the page. You will then be asked to select a file(s) and to fill out some details about the part before uploading it.
3. Once the part of assembly has been uploaded, you will be able to see it in your portfolio.
4. If you view the part in your portfolio, you will see a box labelled "Configure your code and use it in your website".
5.There are options available on how your part is shown and which aspects are visible. Underneath those options, an Iframe will be configured, which you can embed into your website. Before copying the code into your website you can test it. Click on the button “Try it” and you will be forwarded to a new site.
Here you can test and modify your code. The size of the viewer can be adjusted by the width and height figures in the code. Afterwards: Copy this code and paste it into your website.
6. When you preview the webpage, you will now be able to see the interactive window displaying your files.
1. Register on PARTcommunity.com
2. Upload your 3D model on 3D SHARE - PARTcloud.net
3. Choose "Challenges" category (no need to choose subcategory). First you upload files, then renders (Upload Image).
4. Choose the right license depending on your choice.
5. Done. You can upload as many 3D models as you wish for the Weekly Challenge and good luck!
Our TouchTerrain web application creates 3D terrain model files that can be printed on a 3D printer. You select the area you want to print, decide which Digital Elevation Model (DEM) you want to use, set some print parameters and let the app do all the work. When it's done, you download the 3D model file(s) (STL or OBJ format) and print it out on your 3D printer or send it to an online 3D print service.
Area selection (hillshade): |
3D digital model (link to live viewer): |
3D printed model: |
This app is developed by Chris Harding and Franek Hasiuk of the Geofab lab at Iowa State University. It's use is free of charge but please understand that it is still in early development and so may not always work perfectly.
Let's say you want to 3D printable terrain file(s) for a certain area. First, you need to find this area on the Google Map.
The hillshade layer shows topographic relief, which tends to bring out ridges, river beds, and other terrain morphologies. It's useful for finding interesting terrain features for printing. The hillshade layer overlays the Google Map (street map or satellite map); Move the Transparency (%) slider to "mix" both layers, the higher the % the more the Google basemap will come through:
0% |
|
45% |
|
70% |
|
70%, with street map |
You can further tweak the appearance of the hillshade layer by setting different Gamma Correction values, which affects the luminance of the hillshade. Low Gamma (< 1.0) values make for a generally darker hillshade but can be helpful to bring out minute details, especially in relatively flat terrain. Unlike with the Transparency slider, where change is instantaneous, you have to click on Set New Gamma Value to see the change (because it requires server-side processing).
0.3 |
|
1.0 |
|
2.0 |
TouchTerrain offers several types of Digital Elevation Data (DEM) rasters, which differ in resolution and area coverage. Resolution refers to the real-world size of each raster cell (pixel), e.g. in the USGS/NED DEM raster, each cell is approximately 10 x 10 m. However, NED only covers the US - areas outside the US are covered at lower resolutions. After selecting a different Elevation data source, the areas covered by it will be shown via the grey hillshade layer:
USGS/NED: |
|
SRTM GL1: ~30 m resolution, Worldwide up to 60 degrees latitude
|
|
GMTED 2010: ~90 m resolution, Worldwide, onshore-only |
|
ETOPO1: ~1 km resolution, Worldwide - including offshore (bathymetry) |
Once you've decided on a general area, click on Re-center box in current view. This will show a red Area Selection Box, outlining the area you will 3D print.
This configures how the selected area will be converted into 3D model files for later printing.
It is useful to understand how these four parameters are linked to create good quality 3D models. You probably want your 3D printer models to show as much detail as possible, which means setting the parameters in a way that the re-scaled resolution is close to, but not lower, than the source DEM resolution. As this can be a bit of a juggling act, here's an example scenario:
Let's assume you want to create a tiled model with the SRTM GL1 DEM source, for which each cell is 30 x 30 m. With 4 tiles, each 8 x 6.5 cm and a resolution of 0.5 mm, the 30 m cells need to be rescaled (resampled, interpolated) to a 61 m cells for 3D printing. This means that as the 3D printer moves in 0.5 mm steps, it jumps (roughly) 60 m in reality, so the printed model would have less detail than it could, given the original DEM data resolution of 30 m. That's not necessarily a bad thing, you're just not getting the degree of terrain details that the original DEM sources data provides.
If you wanted to get a print with better detail, there are several parameters you could tweak:
By now you can probably see how these parameters interact. You could, of course, change multiple parameters at once, e.g. set larger tiles (12 x 9.8 cm) and use a finer 3D print resolution of 0.25 mm:
This results in a rescaling from 30 m to 20 m, which will print but is actually somewhat pointless. Resampling the original DEM resolution to 20 meters will not increase the information content, and you're unlikely to print a model with better details than using around 30 m. You will, however, wait a bit longer and get larger files, which is simply inefficient. In other words, you might as well try slightly coarser print resolutions (0.3, 0.35, etc.) until the rescale meter number is pretty close to 30 m.
However, depending where your area is located, you may have the option to switch to a higher resolution DEM source! For this area, we can switch to the 10 m USGS NED DEM data source, which, with the same settings rescales from 10 m to 20 m, which will in fact result in a truly more detailed printout.
To recap: Once you've selected your area you need to have some idea about the effective range of resolution your 3D printer can do (e.g. 0.5 mm is a bit coarse, 0.2 mm is very fine) and know the size of your build plate (e.g. you are limited to models less than 12 x 12 cm). Decide on a rough physical size of your final 3D printed map (i.e. all tiles put together should be about 40 x 40 cm). Set the number of tiles and the tile size and adjust the 3D printer resolution setting until it is around the original DEM resolution but not much below. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with ending up with considerably larger numbers, as in my 10 m => 20.33 m example from before, as long as you're happy with the total size of your final 3D printed map and the number of tiles you have to print.
Before you start to print it's advisable to check the 3D models first. http://www.viewstl.com/ is a web site for uploading and previewing each tile. It also connects you to Treatstock, which will show a couple of online 3D print services.
If you want to print yourself, your 3D print program (e.g. MakerWare desktop) will give you a 3D view of your model. Note that you should never need to scale-to-fit as each tile model already has a true mm-based size given by width, height and z-scale from the 3D printer options.
If you want to preview how multiple tiles look when put together, add them one by one to MakerWare desktop but do NOT have them move to the center. The x/y coordinates of all tiles are set so that all tiles will naturally fit together! However, the tiles will very likely exceed your build plate size, which is OK as this is just a preview.
Here are the four ETOPO1 STL files downloaded earlier, shown in 2 different colors to prove they are separate models:
(TODO: list of other multi-stl file viewers)
Looking at the 3D models, you may find that you don't like something in the model, e.g. you want more or less z-scaling or a different tile configuration, etc. Simply click the Back button on your browser twice and you're back at the Map screen with the exactly the same values you had before you clicked Export. Changes things to your liking and try again.
Restart MakeBot and add a single tile. This time, make sure it is put at the center of the build plate.
1.) Go to https://b2b.partcommunity.com/community/partcloud/index#!upload-parts
Interesting: Choosing the right license
You probably have reached the daily download limit, your account is not activated or the tickets are not enabled for your account.
Please contact CADENAS support or the support of the partner portal directly.
1.
Please delete from folder %temp%/psol_logs (within WINexplorer) al files.
Now please reproduce the problem and send logfile from this folder.
2.
Click button F7 while PARTdatamanager is opend and send the file systeminfo, too.
3. (only if problem with a special part)
Please open the part in PARTdatamanager an export it as PS3 V2 3D and add this file, too.
Please send data to support@cadenas.de
Here you'll find the PARTsolutions DVD for downloading:
The Software is only provided for customers in maintenance or after sales approval for demo purposes. If you need an offer or sales contact please write an email to our support team. We will check the request and forwarded to the regarding department. Please note also which CAD you are using and how many workstations should be licensed.
On the left side, click on the button "Register for Free" in order to create a free account.
-> A dialog opens with a form for inputting your account information.
All fields are required to be filled in and the terms of use must be accepted. Click "Continue" at the bottom of the page to proceed with registration.
In the next step the personal informations and informations about the company must be specified. Furthermore the field of activity, the CAD System, the PLM- or ERP system and more contact details can be specified.
In order to verify that your details are correct, click on "Save"
The following details must be specified for a successful registration:
First name, last name, company, zip code, country.
By entering invalid Information appropriate information appears.
Choose the desired picture and open it by clicking the button "Open".
-> If no picture shall be uploaded this step can be skipped.
-> You will receive the confirmation „Thanks for joining!“
-> The activation link will be sent to the specified e-mail address automatically.
Open the e-mail sent to you and activate your account by clicking on the activation link.
You will receive the confirmation „Your account has been verified. Please wait to be redirected or click here to login“ after that.
Furthermore you receive a welcoming e-mail of PARTcommunity, in which you'll be invited to login.
The following formats for 3D CAD models and 2D CAD models are available (license dependent): ADEM | Alibre Design | Architectural Desktop | AutoCAD | BMP (2D View) | BMP (3D View) | CADCEUS | CADISON | CADdy | CadKey | Cadra | CATIA | Cimatron | CoCreate Modeling | Creo Elements/Direct Modeling | Creo Elements/Pro | Creo Parametric | DWF | DWG | DXF | Geomagic Design | Helix | HiCAD | Ideas | IGES | IntelliCAD | Inventor | IRONCAD | JPEG (2D View) | JPEG (3D View) | KeyCreator | KOMPAS | LogoCAD | Mastercam | Mechanical Desktop | Medusa | MegaCAD | MI | Microstation | NX | One Space Modeling | Parasolid | PDF 3D | PDF Datasheet | Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire | PRO-Desktop | SAT | Solid Designer | Solid Edge | SolidThinking | SolidWorks | SpaceClaim | STEP | STL | SVG | thinkdesign | TIFF (2D View) | TopSolid | TurboCAD | Unigraphics | Vectorworks | VDI | VISI | VX
The whole set of formats can be seen in the dialog area 3D CAD CATALOGS under choose CAD format .
Click on the flag right above on the open portal.
-> A dropdown-menu opens showing all available languages.
CAD models to download
After generation, the CAD models are available in the Download CAD models area.
CAD MODELLE als E-Mail Versand
The CAD models are sent per e-mail immediately after generation.
Note
1.) Open your 3D Model and selct the UPLOAD IMAGE button
This is a video tutorial (YouTube) on how to upload a 3D model to PARTcloud.net done by our member Arcadeous Phoenix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHRUm0iWam0&t=1s