We at Nanowerk do not endorse or encourage piracy at any level or in any form. While looking through 3D print websites for free 3D STL files, all the responsibility falls on you to check the copyright ...

A 3D slicer is ... that every 3D printing enthusiast needs in their arsenal. After designing your files in a 3D modeling program, you export them to the slicer, mostly in STL, OBJ, or 3MF format ...

and it’s a Python library to convert images or text to 3D-printable STL files. The examples shown are quite impressive, and it even does a top notch job of taking a 2D company logo into 3D!

As someone who's really into 3D printers, this opens up a whole new creative avenue for me to finally start creating my own models to print, instead of searching online for free STL files.