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Life & fun · October 26, 2012

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Host your 3D printable projects with version control

Host your 3D printable projects with version control launched on October 26, 2012 with 74 votes, #35 of 487 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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CubeHero is a platform for hosting and managing 3D printable projects with version control capabilities. It allows users to work with 3D models by importing designs from vector graphics programs like Inkscape and converting them using tools like OpenSCAD. The service is designed for makers and hobbyists who want to store, organize, and track iterations of their 3D printing projects in one centralized location.

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First, we make an outline of a knight profile in any vector drawing program that exports to DXF, like Inkscape. I won’t cover that process here, since it’s beyond the scope of this guide, but you can download a pre-made one here (just click the download button). However, note that if you decide to draw your own DXF file, you’ll need to install a plugin for Inkscape that will export to a DXF format . Once we have our DXF file, we can import it into OpenSCAD pretty easily with the import function. import(file="knight_profile.dxf"); Notice here that it’s still a 2D shape. In order to make it a 3D shape, we’re going to extrude it vertically. Linear extrude is like stretching and projecting a…from cubehero.com

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