Mineways: 3D Prints of Minecraft Objects

By WedTM Dec 27, 2011
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Have you ever built something so absolutely amazing that you wanted to keep it forever? Imagined a structure in Minecraft, and longed to see it brought into the real world?

Well, now's your chance.

Eric Haines from Autodesk (the makers of 3D rendering software, no less) has just released his Mineways program to the world. Mineways allows you to select various blocks from within the game, trim them up, and send them to 3D printing service, Shapeways.

The process is extremely simple, and after a quick turn around, you can have any Minecraft scene, object, or mob rendered into a real life object of your very own.

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
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Have you ever built something so absolutely amazing that you wanted to keep it forever? Imagined a structure in Minecraft, and longed to see it brought into the real world?

Well, now's your chance.

Eric Haines from Autodesk (the makers of 3D rendering software, no less) has just released his Mineways program to the world. Mineways allows you to select various blocks from within the game, trim them up, and send them to 3D printing service, Shapeways.

The process is extremely simple, and after a quick turn around, you can have any Minecraft scene, object, or mob rendered into a real life object of your very own.

Wow, amazing.

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
wow that sounds awesome

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
Griefers can now save their kills.

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
Dude, this is BAWS.

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
I wanna make my castle into a model! Then I can live in it

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
WOW this is amazing! minecraft is going to slowly take over real life,

just one day you will see a creeper in the shadows on a dark storm night... sssSSSss...

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
Wait waht?

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
nice. i got a few awesome creations for this definatly

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
This is now the COOLEST way to make D&D boards for games o_O Sending to my dungeon master ASAP!

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
Guys! we already got this, minecraft print, remember?!@ look in news old, we already have this, not coloured though...

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
Awesome. Autodesk and Minecraft! :biggrin.gif:Awesome. Autodesk and Minecraft! :biggrin.gif:

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
so, can they print out a bunch of floating islands?

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
So during a conversation with two of my friends, the subject of 3D printing comes up. Basically the younger one takes a tech class and he gets to play around with 3D printers. I suggested he play Minecraft since he likes building stuff, and the older one promptly swept my suggestion off the table by saying "No. Make something in Real Life instead." I'd like to see the look on his face when I come back with this.

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Posted Dec 24, 2011
Hey no .app I want to be able to use this on my mac because its way faster than my windows (I get 1 - 100 fps on my minecraft on my pc).

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
Maya 3d is beast. Everybody loves autodesk. I'm going to make some very cool things with this. :biggrin.gif:
Thanks minecraft, you never cease to amaze me!

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
Do computers come with a way to view VRML files, or is there some third-party program that's necessary to view them?

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
Imagine the whole Buxville map was made from this

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
I'm waiting on a email :biggrin.gif: Selected a large citadel.

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
Man that's pricy. And my Spider stone citadel didn't even have the bottom 5-10 layers...

My skywhale is over water btw. If I did this I would have to seriously edit some things. Really fun to try out though thanks.

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Posted Dec 25, 2011
Cool!

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