SCI-Quality 3D Print Files INCLUDING FREE DOWNLOADS NOW YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FILES FROM SCI AND PRINT THEM IN 3D, PLUS YOU CAN HAVE FULLY 3D-PRINTED ITEMS SHIPPED TO YOU! GO TO SCI's SHAPEWAYS SHOP SCI's Shapeways Shop At our Shapeways SCI Shop, you can order 3D prints, and Shapeways will take care of all the details. They will create perfect 3D prints, using the materials we have set, and they'll send them directly to you. Many of the items available there will enhance the realism, ease of assembly, and longevity, of your regular SCI laser-cut paper Kits. Now included on the Shapeways SCI Shop is our first completely 3D-printed model. It's a 1:170 printed plastic version of the Keck Telescope. It comes in three parts, which you can order separately if you want to replace some of the laser-cut parts in the Keck Telescope SCI Kit (see below). Or if you order all three, you'll have most of the model done; just add the mirror parts from your SCI Kit. Download 3D Print Files from SCI You can obtain 3D print files, and print them yourself, or even find people who will print them for you. Maybe your school or office has a desktop 3D printer. Perhaps you've got one at home. Visit this page to find out using the 3D Print files from this website. You'll find all out about SCI's STL files, SCAD files, and GCODE files, and what you can do with them. If you're familiar enough with these aspects of desktop manufacturing, look below to download some cool files! SCI offers some extraordinary objects free of charge, and a growing number of 3D parts that you can purchase for $0.99 to enhance the realism of your regular SCI Kits. The Saturn & Rings File(s) GREAT STARTER FILES!   Print an accurate scale model of Saturn and its complex ring system directly from this .stl file. Or download the source-code .scad file to edit and tinker with, and learn from its extensive comments, which show how it all works. Saturn's southern hemisphere is cut off so the planet and rings sit on a flat surface during and after printing. The model planet is an accurately oblate hemi-spheroid, with main rings A, B, and C, plus representations of the inner D Ring and the outer F Ring. The Cassini Division, and the finer Keeler, Enke, and Maxwell gaps are all represented. See this page to also download the "Cassini Proximal Orbits" model. Download Free of Charge For printing using FDM, this is an easily printed file. It only requires a single extruder machine; no external support material is generated, so it's clean enough to display directly. Scale to fit any platform size. Print using off-white or cream-colored plastic. The 34m Deep Space Station Files This extraordinary 1:250 scale model of a 34-meter diameter Beam Waveguide (BWG) Deep Space Station prints easily without needing any support material. It was designed to best reproduce key aspects of this kind of DSN station; it illustrates the antenna's mechanical structure and its microwave beam-waveguide system very nicely. It shows correctly how the dish rotates in azimuth and elevation above-grade, while the waveguide tubes articulate to reflect radio signals to and from the receivers and transmitters, which are located below-grade (the basement isn't represented in the model). The BWG stations are the newest design in NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). These exquisitely precise ground stations comprise the thousands of tons of concrete and steel which constitute the "other end" of basically every interplanetary spacecraft. Download Free of Charge For printing using FDM, it requires only a single-extruder machine; no support material needs to be generated. Print using white ABS plastic. The main reflector dish requires an 8-inch print platform, but all the other parts may be printed on a 4-inch platform. Keck Telescope Elevation Ring .STL File Download this .stl file to print the Elevation Ring component for your Keck Telescope SCI Kit. This 3D-print component replaces three pairs of the laser-cut paper parts in the SCI Kit: the Elevation Ring, the Elevation Ring Inner Panel, and the Elevation Bearing. The laser-cut paper version of this component included in the SCI Kit is perhaps a bit difficult to work. Downloading and printing this 3D Print file provides a great solution and improves the realism of your model. Also available from the Shapeways SCI Shop, fully printed, incorporated into the "Keck Telescope Lower" item. For printing using FDM, this component only requires a single extruder machine; no support material is required or generated. Keck Telescope Upper Tube .STL File Download this .stl file to print the Upper Telescope Tube component for your Keck Telescope SCI Kit. The laser-cut paper version of this component included in the SCI Kit is certainly the most delicate part of the model, and perhaps the most difficult to work. Downloading and printing this 3D Print file provides a great solution and improves the realism of your model. $0.99 Download Also available from the Shapeways SCI Shop, fully printed, as part the "Keck Telescope Upper" item. For printing using FDM, this component only requires a single extruder machine; no support material is required. The Voyager Mag Boom .STL File Download this .stl file to print a Voyager Magnetometer Boom component on your 3D printer. We recommend using yellow ABS plastic. Fold lengthwise and snap together into a triangular cross-section boom. Print one for a half-scale length boom, or print two and glue them together end-to-end for a full-scale boom. ABS plastic is soluble in acetone, which can be used to weld the pieces together and weld them to your Voyager SCI Kit model. $0.99 Download Also available from the Shapeways SCI Shop, fully printed. For printing using FDM, this component only requires a single extruder machine; no support material is required. Yellow ABS plastic recommended. The HGA Assembly .STL File Use this component for Voyager and Magellan SCI Kits. This high-gain antenna (HGA) print file offers some important visual advantages over the high-density styrofoam and the laser-cut card-stock components that comes with the Voyager SCI Kit (VSK) and the Magellan SCI Kit (MSK). The main reflector is paraboidal, which is more accurate than the spheroidal shape of the SCI Kits' styrofoam HGA. It has a more accurate thickness, which is especially visible at the edge of the dish. It also includes the hole for the sun sensor assembly. Integrated into one printed piece are: the main reflector dish, the six-strut tripod, the subreflector, the central-dish feedcone, the low-gain antenna, and its waveguide. This one printed part replaces a total of seven of the laser-cut paper Voyager SCI Kit parts. A full-size print of this file does happen to be the correct scale for the free Cassini Spacecraft model, but the feedcone in the center does not replicate Cassini's more complex feed array. $0.99 Download This piece is also available fully printed, from the Shapeways SCI Shop. For printing using FDM, this component requires a dual extruder machine; soluble support material is required. White ABS plastic and soluble HIPS plastic (for support) are recommended. |   SCI HOME PAGE   |   PRODUCT CATALOG   |   THE BIG IDEA   |   HOW TO ORDER   PAGE UPDATED 2021 MARCH 21