Love 3D printing? Love Pokémon? Me too! For those who personal top-of-the-line 3D printers on the market, then likelihood is you’ve got stumbled throughout websites like Thingiverse, Printables, and MakerWorld when trying to find open-source STL recordsdata to print from. Because it seems, Pokémon prints are vastly standard. One in every of my first-ever prints on my Anycubic Kobra 2 was a low-poly Snorlax mannequin, throughout my first 3 weeks with a 3D printer.
New information based mostly on 3D fashions from Thingiverse has revealed the preferred fan-made designs, in the end uncovering the preferred 3D printed Pokémon of all time. Who’s that Pokémon? It is… Cubone!
Yep. The child cranium Pokémon is, in keeping with the specialists at 3DSourced, essentially the most 3D printed Pokémon ever. Effectively, technically the cranium is. Probably the most preferred particular person mannequin was a Cubone cranium keychain with 17,000 likes. Different Pokémon that made the highest 10 record embrace Pikachu (after all) plus different gen-1 favourites like Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Gengar, Charizard, Vulpix, Dragonite, and Eevee.
This information has been gathered and analysed by Scott Hamill, the Head of 3D Printable Tasks at 3DSourced, who kindly shared these findings with us. He stated a key a part of the analysis was analysing the full variety of likes for every Pokémon mannequin on Thingiverse, in addition to the variety of occurrences within the prime 100 Pokémon fashions on the platform. He additionally dived into which technology the Pokémon first appeared in, and which household they belong to.
It is no shock that Scott discovered the Eeveelutions (evolutions of the Pokémon Eevee) to be one of the crucial standard 3D-printed Pokémon households, since they’re all so rattling cute. Social media is understood for having claimed the ghost Pokémon household of Gastly evolutions too, so it is sensible to see it as a part of this information set.
Regardless of together with the whole evolution household as one entry (so, Charmander, Charmeleon, and Charizard would all rely below the identical “Charmander” household), Cubone was STILL discovered to be the preferred Pokémon from 3DSourced’s information.
I’ve 3D printed a ton of Pokémon since getting my printer final yr (see the gallery beneath) together with Pokémon planters which appear to be rising in recognition. I additionally printed an articulated Onix mannequin in marble PLA which seems superior.
It is notably the cutest Gen 1 Pokémon households that have been discovered to be the preferred, together with Togepi, Dratini, and Vulpix. Although I am stunned Growlithe and Jigglypuff households did not make the reduce to be sincere.
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Maintain that thought. It seems {that a} bunch of different Pokémon households had a number of appearances on Thingiverse, together with Clefairy, Growlithe, Mareep, Mew, Psyduck, Jigglypuff, and my private fave: Snorlax. Entries that stunned me have been Larvitar (gen 2) and Groudon (gen 3, legendary) nonetheless, on condition that they are not notably notable or crowd favourites so far as my understanding goes.
The info conclusively discovered that Cubone was essentially the most preferred Pokemon general, however Pikachu claimed second place, and the Pokémon with essentially the most occurrences on the highest 100 hottest 3D mannequin record on Thingiverse was Eevee, shocker. Scott discovered that 10% of essentially the most preferred fashions within the prime 100 record have been both Eevee, or an Eevelution like Jolteon or Vaporeon.
To see the complete set of outcomes and information sheet (with hyperlinks to every STL file so that you can obtain) head over to 3DSourced.com.
For those who’re on the lookout for another 3D printing initiatives to grasp, see our information on find out how to print a HueForge in simply 7 steps, and see how I managed to 3D print a hexagon shelf for my sport room too.
