3D Models

Posted on August 31, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:3dprinting Note this article had been almost completely written before the weekend, and I decided I might as well focus on stuff I’m creating, finish and publish this. For many years, I’ve been sporadically dabbling in creating 3D models; for reasons that are probably obvious to anybody who knows me I used OpenSCAD and saved my projects in git, which made them at least somewhat public. However, SCAD sources in a git repository aren’t the most convenient way to get a 3D model, and for a long time I never had a consistent way to publish “binaries” for my models: some have been added to my old website, some to my craft patterns site, but it was always an ad-hoc thing. Then two things happened more or less at the same time. One was me finding out that slic3r had been definitely removed from Debian. I know it was going to happen, and I postponed thinking about it as long as I could, but eventually I had to move over to…