The beetle sand mould by sandy3d

This seems to be the very first sand mold on Thingiverse. ¹  The amazing thing about Thingiverse is that nearly three years after it’s creation people are still coming up with totally brand new things to design and upload.  Once a totally new (and open source!) design is uploaded, variations and improvements inevitably start popping up.

Why not a sand mold Mini Cooper, Lamborghini, or Ford Shelby?  With a little OpenSCAD magic, it might take very long to create your own mold from almost anything on Thingiverse.  For your OpenSCAD enjoyment, here’s how to make a similar style sand mold out of nearly any STL on Thingiverse:

• difference()
• {
• scale(1.5) import_stl(“gangsta_fixed.stl”);
• import_stl(“gangsta_fixed.stl”);
• }

How else could you make molds using existing STL’s from Thingiverse?  And, more importantly, what would you use those molds for?

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