The 3D modeling app 3D Slash is probably one of the easiest of this new wave of 3D model auto-generation software platforms, and for many of their features, new users don’t need to know how to do much of anything to create 3D printable files. Thankfully there are finally a few more options that are designed to auto-generate 3D models. While design software is improving rapidly, it isn’t happening fast enough for beginners and 3D printing neophytes. The 3D printing industry’s lack of useful objects to 3D print will continue to hold its expansion into the mainstream back until there are options for people who have never used 3D modeling software.

Yoda heads, cell phone cases and vases with geometric patterns are great and all, but there is only so much of those that any one person needs. However, in reality 3D printable models don’t just appear out of thin air, and while CAD software is starting to become much more user friendly, there still isn’t a way for novices to quickly design an object that doesn’t look like it was designed by a novice. When the 3D printing hype train started a few years back we were promised that in a few years everyone would have a printer in their home and effortlessly replace things like broken knobs on appliances or 3D print any household item that we could ever want.

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