{"id":1415,"date":"2012-06-05T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1415-massive-minecraft-3d-print-of-northwestern-university-campus.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:18:44","slug":"massive-minecraft-3d-print-of-northwestern-university-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/massive-minecraft-3d-print-of-northwestern-university-campus","title":{"rendered":"Massive Minecraft 3D Print of Northwestern University Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBen Rothman has <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/5mVqz#0\" target=\"_blank\">3D Printed a five-foot-wide scale model of most of Northwestern University<\/a>, where he was a sophomore this past year. The model was entirely created using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraft.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minecraft<\/a> and exported using <a href=\"http:\/\/realtimerendering.com\/erich\/minecraft\/public\/mineways\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mineways<\/a> to be 3D Printed.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imgur-album\" width=\"100%\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/5mVqz\/embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>This campus model is unique: it is the first modeled in Minecraft and then printed on a 3D printer. It is also the largest Minecraft 3D print to date, and will be on display in the main lobby of the largest building on campus in a few weeks. <a href=\"http:\/\/northbynorthwestern.com\/story\/student-recreates-north-campus-in-minecraft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben began in November and spent about 600 hours recreating the campus<\/a>. He notes that <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Minecraft\/comments\/uhsga\/worlds_largest_minecraft_3d_print_northwestern\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;this felt like playing a game more than a modeling task.&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/strong> The cost of the print material was about $2000 to $2500, well less than the cost of the display case being built for it (admittedly, labor costs are included for the case). The <a href=\"http:\/\/realtimerendering.com\/erich\/minecraft\/public\/mineways\/\" target=\"_blank\">free Mineways program<\/a> was used for export. It can help upload an exported Minecraft model to Shapeways. <a href=\"\/shops\/mineways?sort=pricelh\" target=\"_blank\">Models cost as little as $5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/erich.realtimerendering.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Haines<\/a> for the blog post&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft has been a perfect example (if inadvertently) of the way in which gameplay can be used to create content for 3D printing. &nbsp;It need not be a laborious task of fighting with a CAD package but should and will be a case of being engrossed in the creative process, teasing the details out of a model&#8230; What other tools approach 3D content creation in this way that may be 3D printed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rothman has 3D Printed a five-foot-wide scale model of most of Northwestern University, where he was a sophomore this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Massive Minecraft 3D Print of Northwestern University Campus - Shapeways Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ben Rothman has 3D Printed a five-foot-wide scale model of most of Northwestern University, where he was a sophomore this past year. 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