3D Modeling As Easy As Point, Click, Print

3DTin is the world’s first browser-based open-source 3D modeling tool, which means you don’t have to pay for expensive software or download anything to start building. The easy-to-use software might be best suited for 3D puzzles because of the voxel nature of the building blocks, but as seen in the picture above, all the usual 8-bit suspects make their appearance as modeling examples on the website.

Over the weekend, Zach Hoeken and Bre Pettis (of Thingiverse and MakerBot Industries) made 3DTin compatible with their Thingiverse digital design community, letting users easily share their models for peer review and collaboration.

The duo contacted 3DTin about integrating with their API to quickly allow 3DTin users to export their creations to Thingiverse, where MakerBot fans and design gurus alike showcase their 3D works. According to the 3DTin blog, it looks like there might still be a few kinks, but adding in this kind of community-enabled review process not only makes getting feedback more accessible and speeds up the process of creating and sharing prototypes with people from all over the world, it also accelerates innovation by letting users build on top of one another’s designs.

Did you know you can print your 3DTin model at home using a MakerBot 3D printer, or send your designs to Shapeways 3D printing service (the company that actualized this guitar)? Read more about 3D printed artwork in our Creativity Bytes column.

[via Make Magazine]