Watch the video if you need a detailed walkthrough of how to actually download the data, it’s pretty simple. There are many places to obtain 3D DEM Data, but I’ll recommend two that I’ve found useful. Get the 3D DEM data (in heightmap image form) for the location you wish to model. Slic3r (Any slicing program will do, this is what I use):.Yeah, I’ll do a quick write up after the video for the text based learners out there, but the meat of this post and the true instruction can be found in the video. As a bonus, I’ll include the STL files I’ve printed off so far at the bottom of the post, if you’d like to simply replicate the models I’ve already printed. Having finally figured out how to do so (and finding a serious lack of concise information out there on how to do so) I decided to make a quick how to video and blog post for anyone wishing to do the same. As soon as I began toying with the idea of procuring a 3D printer, I knew one of my first projects would be figuring out how to print out a mountain. Whether it be touching the scale topographic models of mountains at national parks or my first digital fly though of a mountain range on Google Earth, being able to interact with the stunning features of this Earth on both a large and small scale is exciting. I have always been fascinated by 3D topography.
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