BodyParts3D Foot

thingiverse

Showcase your printing prowess with a skeletal human foot from the BodyParts3D database! This exceptional resource, licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan, offers an interactive database and hundreds of .OBJ source files for exploration (http://lifesciencedb.jp/bp3d/?lng=en). A ZIP containing these files can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_3DyBhHQQc2X2t5ZXNpbkZqNTA. For more information on the project, refer to this journal article (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18835852) and its supplementary materials (http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/suppl_1/D782.full-text-lowres.pdf). To learn how to prepare anatomical features for printing, check out my post (http://craig.bonsignore.com/2012/10/07/open-3d-human-anatomy/). After printing your skeletal foot model, consider sharing your creation, experimenting with more body parts using the "bodyparts3d" tag, and exploring the potential of this incredible resource. Your 3D printed skeletal human foot, sliced near the ankle for a flat print surface (toes up!), will weigh approximately 74 grams, with support structures adding around 26 grams. The printing process took about 24 hours at 50mm/s, using PLA filament and default settings in Cura 12.08 on an Ultimaker with a heated build platform set to 60C.