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I am not sure how niche of a topic this will end up being and if anyone other than myself will really post on here, but I thought that it still might be worth a try. I really enjoy 3D modeling and printing as a hobby and find that it often comes in handy when dealing with certain problems around collecting, organizing, displaying of fossils. Some of these designs I have come up with myself while others have been heavily inspired by other people's projects and I thought that creating a single place to share all my 3D prints related to this may be helpful or inspiring to others. So here are some of the models I've created and found quite useful for my collection, as always any forum members are free to message me and I will be happy to share any of these files with you: Microfossil slides, I think outside of some simple stands these may have been the first items like this I designed and printed. These have been quite useful as I can print these whenever I am sorting through some micromatrix and always have room for my micros instead of having to buy expensive slides and waiting for them to ship. This is my most recent print and it's a small universal stand for all my slides to keep them organized, it works with the printed ones, metal ones, injection molded plastic and just glass thin sections. Scale cubes, probably the most useful of all of these as I take many pictures of my fossils and having this as a reference with both metric and imperial units is great. and here are some of these mounts and hooks I designed. I just got some new shelving for my collection and each shelf this sort of beam behind it, this was a great way to mount some of my riker displays and larger flat specimens to reduce the space they take up on the shelf itself. If anyone has any other designs like this they have made with 3D printing, or other similar technologies like CNC that you'd like to share, it would be great to see some of them here to learn and get ideas or inspiration for our own projects. Thanks for looking!

Sooo....wondering if any of you in the academic field might know if there is a 3D printer fossil starfish "program"? Not sure what they are called....template? File? Anyways, I have seen some but they are not specifically fossil starfish. I would like a fossil starfish, not a modern. Anyways, just thought I'd ask.....

Constantly forgetting to order display tools to securely display my fossils which are right now at risk of being damaged from grinding the glass shelves in my display, I decided to print a stand for my last model before I took my 3D printer home (and not use it until I get a microSD reader so I could transfer files to the printer). I didn't really pay too much attention to exact dimensions, but it actually printed quite fine and did fit one of my boxed fossils I wanted to display but couldn't before. The stand is blue because that's the only color of filament I own When I get to buy a microSD reader sometime later, I'll probably print more of these stands, and maybe even print a custom stand for all of my fossils (except for riker mounts which simply can't be printed)