When I wrote stljs, a library to read, write, and convert STL to PNG, one of the things I had to decide was how to calculate where the camera was located and where to point the camera. You want to…
Blog Archives
Overhaul of background workers
Cubehero, like many other web apps, depend on background workers to get many tasks done that you don’t want to do within a web request. These are usually longer running tasks, like sending an emails, calculating a score, updating information…
Posted in Uncategorized
Introducing stljs, a fast library to read, write, and render STL files
Ever want to parse STL files, but couldn’t find a fast library to read both ASCII and Binary STL files? Or you have STL files, but you want to convert it to an image, so you don’t have to load…
How to convert and render STL files to images
Cubehero isn’t just the web page itself. It depends largely on background workers to do the work of rendering models to images, resizing images, and visual diffing models. The past three weeks have been an overhaul of the system to…
Why TinkerCad is shutting down
In parallel with Tinkercad, we continued development of the core platform. In October 2012, we launched a scripting interface for one of the key components, the Gen6 geometry modeling kernel. And finally, in late 2012, we had several major breakthroughs…
Posted in analysis
How to answer 3D printing questions at a cocktail party
Recently, at parties, 3D printing always comes up when people ask me what I’m working on. I’ve found that people’s reactions to 3D printing vary greatly, and when talking about any new idea, there’s a lot of misconceptions about what…
Posted in tutorial
Web-commits and experimental Bill of Materials
Hopefully this finds you all well. This holiday season had been both a time of reflection for myself, as well as some improvements for Cubehero.Web-based upload and commit I’ve listened to your feedback, and changed the way you can push files to C…
Posted in announcement, Uncategorized
Beautifully share
Hello all! Hope you had a good mid-autumn festival. What’s been going on? To start, I believe when people want to share their projects, they not only want to have the files up on the web (any FTP can do that), but they’d like to share it beautiful…
Posted in announcement, Uncategorized
Cubeheroist starter walkthrough
Welcome, new Cubeheroist! To help you get started, I wrote a quick little walkthrough to help you out. To follow along, you need both git and openscad installed. First signup for cubehero. It’s standard fare–choose a username/password, etc. Then …
Posted in Uncategorized
Work on 3D printed projects together.
Host your 3D printed projects on Cubehero, and get 3D Model previews and git based version control.
https://cubehero.com
 | AAA on Know only 10 things to be dang… |
 | Sineer on Know only 10 things to be dang… |
| Simple 3D Printed Ad… on Know only 10 things to be dang… | |
 | Simple 3D Printed Ad… on Know only 10 things to be dang… |
 | Craig on How to generate extruded 3D mo… |
Cubehero Blog 