Better 3D Printing Support in Fedora 19

The newest version of Fedora has much improved integration of the commonly used software tools for 3D printing. The goal of the 3D printing feature is to
Bring 3D printing tools to Fedora and allow users of 3D printers, such as RepRap, to be fully satisfied with software in the repositories, without having to download binary blobs or run Python code from git.
I have become so spoiled by package management in the modern distros, that I really loathe downloading source and installing outside yum/rpm. So I really appreciate this improvement. Here are all of the applications that are now packaged in Fedora: Though not specifically called out, the latest version of Blender also has some improvements aimed at 3D printing.

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