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 Jun 20, 2014
Version 4.01 is up, minor stuff but useful for big exports: Fixed importer so that upper height is set properly. // Increased size of progress bar, so that progress is more visible for huge exports. (thanks to Adrian Cowherd for the idea.)

Yes, this is now possible to export, though best of luck interacting with it all...

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Posted Jun 20, 2014
Awesome!

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Posted Jun 22, 2014
And, yes, another version, but really worthwhile. Version 4.02: Added blender_mineways.py script to vastly simplify Blender import of Mineways models (thanks to Wyatt Jameson and Nicky for this script.) // Fixed extremely slow memory freeing of face records by replacing face allocation with my own pool system; large exports now proceed much faster. // Finally fixed the "two selections" bug, where if you made a selection and panned so it was offscreen, it wouldn't get cleared and could scroll back onto the screen, looking as if there were two selections.

The Hopper, now easily rendered with Blender:

and a print from Shapeways (sadly, parts broke off in shipping):

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