Herman Miller (and other large furniture design houses) is offering free models of it’s furniture for your use.  They want people to design with it, so more people see and want to buy it.  Here’s the link.

http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Category/0,1564,a4-c996,00.html

The menu on the left of that page takes you to tables chairs work stations…

If you know of more copyright free models please post.  (Especially plants.. too bad those aren’t designer controlled and in need of advertisement… well with the exception of Monsanto’s GMOs)

Yon

Wow!  This is an awesome idea for companies.  I’ve grabbed a couple of these as .3ds and Transaporter handles them really well.

Thanks for the link.

_mike

Black Box - 22 February 2008 10:57 AM

If you know of more copyright free models please post.  (Especially plants.. too bad those aren’t designer controlled and in need of advertisement… well with the exception of Monsanto’s GMOs)

Yon

Hi Yon and all,

just saw at the Kerkythea Forum that there´s also a Fritz Hansen furniture collection available:

http://www.fritzhansen.com/CadDrawings

Regards
Stefan

Stefan,
Those are nice, the 3ds files have UV’s.  The Herman Miller models don’t all have them.

Yon

Hello,

there are all furniture models from Vitra available on http://www.furnish.net.

You need a registration. But this is no problem.

Click on your country - login - Download for architects.

They have DXF/DWG/3DS Files and some TextureMaps. Nice stuff.

... and a few free plants:

http://3dplants.0catch.com/download.html