{"id":43289,"date":"2026-10-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3dwork.io\/realiza-facilmente-litofanias-con-tu-impresora-3d-en-3dwork-io\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T09:15:48","slug":"realiza-facilmente-litofanias-con-tu-impresora-3d-en-3dwork-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3dwork.io\/en\/realiza-facilmente-litofanias-con-tu-impresora-3d-en-3dwork-io\/","title":{"rendered":"HueForge and Lithophane Guide: How to 3D Print Classic and Color Lithophanes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the most curious things we can do with our 3D printers is make what are known as lithophanes<\/strong>. The technique is nothing new and has been around for quite some time. Still, machining tools and, later, the rise of 3D printing seem to have brought it back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you who don’t know what lithophanes are, the idea is to shine a light through a semi-transparent sheet on which a volume has been modeled beforehand. It is basically similar to making a height map with 3DSMax<\/a><\/strong>. If you have used that software, you will know exactly what I am talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point of the process is that, once printed, and depending on its thickness, the model (or lithophane) lets more or less light through its surface. Held up to the light, it shows the image we want, or at least that is the theory \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two things have changed since we wrote this article in 2019. You no longer need to model anything in 3D software to get the STL (we have a web tool for that, further down), and HueForge<\/strong> has appeared: a different take on the lithophane that produces color images and needs no light behind it. We have expanded the guide with thickness, orientation, backlighting and the most common failures of classic lithophanes, plus a full section on HueForge. We have kept the original text.<\/p>\n\n\n

This guide gathers the usual community guidelines and the software’s own documentation. The figures in the new sections are reference values, not measurements of our own; when a figure is unclear or varies from case to case, we say so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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