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This atlas provides publicly available 3D models of human bones for educational purposes — anatomy teaching, visualization, 3D printing, and student projects. The models cover the full skeletons of the Visible Human Male and Visible Human Female, segmented bone by bone from CT. Each bone is offered as a surface mesh (STL) and as a NURBS CAD model (IGES and STEP).
The files are hosted in the visible-human-3d-models dataset on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0). If you use them, please see Citation for what to cite.
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The full skeleton of each subject in an interactive scene, coloured by body part. Hover a bone to see its name, drag to rotate, scroll to zoom, right-drag to pan. Use the list to show or hide body parts; open a body part to toggle single bones.
Visible Human Male
Visible Human Female
Citation
The models are released under CC BY 4.0. You are free to share and adapt them, also for teaching material and publications, as long as you give credit. If you use the atlas, please cite both the dataset and the source dataset paper.
Alavi, S. H., & Asseln, M. (2026). visible-human-3d-models [Dataset]. Hugging Face. https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/10464
Andreassen, T. E., Hume, D. R., Hamilton, L. D., Walker, K. E., Higinbotham, S. E., & Shelburne, K. B. (2023). Three Dimensional Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Geometry of the Visible Human Female and Male. Scientific Data, 10, 34. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01905-2
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This page is maintained by Hamid Alavi and Malte Asseln
Department of Biomechanical Engineering, University of Twente, The Netherlands