Any free generic aircraft models available?

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Does anyone know of a place that has generic 3D models for aircraft available? I would be ok with something as simple as a paper airplane.

Is the drone available to use from the Sandcastle page?

I’m also curious what 3D model types can be used in Cesium JS? I’ve seen .glb and .gltf so far. Any others that work?

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Hi @tzgardner,

Thank you for the question! You can also checkout Sketchfab:

Best,
Sam

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Thanks for pointing me to that site. I’m not seeing where you download the gltf files for those models though. Any pointers?

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In the models directory are .glb files. These are binaries containing .gltf .bin and textures.

You can convert betwween .glb and .gltf and vice-versa using:

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Hi @tzgardner,

You can use Babylon.js to easily view the models once you have downloaded them:

This is a quick way to check if you they are appropriate to add to your CesiumJS project.

Best,
Sam

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That’s sounds like a question about the actual download. When browsing to a model, then there should be a “Download 3D Model” link below the viewer. Clicking that should open a dialog where you can select to download the model as glTF (or other formats, but you probably want glTF):

Cesium Model Download
Cesium Model Download760×634 107 KB

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GrabCad has lots of CAD models but you would have to convert them to gltf

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Not aircrafts exactly, but certainly interesting from a modeling viewpoint: GitHub - nasa/NASA-3D-Resources: Here you'll find a growing collection of 3D models, textures, and images from inside NASA.

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Thanks @markchagers!