{"id":1149,"date":"2012-01-03T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1149-mineways-3d-print-your-minecraft-model.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:14:59","slug":"mineways-3d-print-your-minecraft-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/mineways-3d-print-your-minecraft-model","title":{"rendered":"Mineways : 3D Print Your Minecraft Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realtimerendering.com\/erich\/minecraft\/public\/mineways\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nMineways<\/a> is a free program that makes it easy to&nbsp;<font face=\"verdana\">select a model from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraft.net\/\">Minecraft<\/a> world map and render it and 3D print via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\">Shapeways<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postapocalyptic\/6626972287\/\" title=\"Designing Christmas Decoration in Minecraft by post-apocalyptic research institute, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6626972287_92a4685ee6_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" alt=\"Designing Christmas Decoration in Minecraft\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/erich.realtimerendering.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Haines<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/realtimerendering.com\/erich\/minecraft\/public\/mineways\/mineways.zip\" target=\"_blank\">latest version<\/a> of Mineways runs on Windows (or Linux under Wine) and allows you to output Minecraft models in full color, or to fabricate in plastic. &nbsp;Check out <a href=\"\/shops\/mineways\" target=\"_blank\">Eric&#8217;s Mineways Shapeways Shop<\/a> for examples or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/mineways\/pool\/with\/6626972287\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mineways Flickr group<\/a> he has set up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are already <a href=\"\/gallery?mg%5Bsearch%5D%5Bcategories%5D=&amp;mg%5Bsearch%5D%5Btext%5D=minecraft\" target=\"_blank\">over 1900 Minecraft tagged items<\/a> on show, for sale or download in the <a href=\"\/gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Shapeways gallery<\/a> and we are expecting to see many, many more as the game engine makes 3D&nbsp;modelling&nbsp;fun and accessible to thousands of people. &nbsp;Minecraft and Mineways may end up being a great stepping stone to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dtin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">3DTin<\/a> which has a comparable base architecture or <a href=\"http:\/\/tinkercad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tinkercad<\/a> which may also be intuitive to those who enter 3D modelling via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraft.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minecraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/MTAztZjP3ak\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> which shows how easy it is to export a part of the Minecraft world to Shapeways via Mineways.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MTAztZjP3ak?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MTAztZjP3ak?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The (C\/C++)&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/realtimerendering.com\/erich\/minecraft\/public\/mineways\/MinewaysSource.rar\" target=\"_blank\">code&nbsp;is available open source<\/a> and based on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/seancode.com\/minutor\/\" style=\"font-family: verdana; \">minutor<\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana; \"> written by Sean Kasun,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana; \">Mineways is a superset of his mapper, with a model exporter and other additional features. &nbsp;Take a look at the Mineways page for all of the documentation.. 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