3D assets

Draft

Introduction

This page includes some links for 3D assets.

Search

• Images.google (Only pictures, but search may then lead to 3D websites if you add "3D" or similar to the query)
• Princeton 3D Model Search Engine (not maintained, but ok to find some VRML models for example)
• Yobi3D 3D Model Search Engine (Search by keyword. Provides a viewer to see models in 3D)

CAD/CAM models

Free CAD/CAM/printable formats

• Thingiverse (Printable 3D models)
• The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository (some files in .PLY format)
• 3dcontentcentral.com

Free CAD models

• www.tracepartsonline.net
• http://www.mcmaster.com/

3D Models

Finding free 3D models is the usual "search for multimedia assets" nightmare, 95 of hits are bad if you use google ...)I

Various free 3D model repositories

• http://3dr.adlnet.gov/ Created in the context of SCORM/TLA
• Google 3D warehouse (.dae/collada, .skp)
• Trinckle (a more recent repository for 3D models) .PLY .STL and .3DS
• Opengameart.org
• NTU 3D Model Database ver.1. Free for education (.obj)

Free models from commercial sites (some sites many include lots of ads, none endorsed)

• 3dmodelfree.com
• Free OBJ models at Oyonale.

Commercial (no endorsement ...)

Often, these models come in several formats, some are high end and expensive

• The3dStudio.com (some free)
• Artist-3D.com (some free for education)
• Exchange3D.com
• TurboSquid.com
• DAZ 3D has some free models (registration required) for DAZ Studio.

Links

(links of links)

• deco2c.free (good list of free 3D model sites] (in french, some links broken)