Meet the designer: Guido Mandorf
Step into the fantasy world of Guido Mandorf: a mini world full of scaled models.
Since it’s ‘prime gray month’ at i.materialise, Guido is the perfect designer to feature on the blog. For his models he 3D prints in this material and paints the models afterwards.
Can you tell us a bit more about yourself?
«I live with my family in Düsseldorf. After my studies- Mathematics and Informatics I started working for the university of applied science in Düsseldorf. Next to that I’m the head of an education center in Düsseldorf.»
When did you start being interested in scaled models?
«I started 3d modelling about 2 years ago. Before that I made scratchbuilt models and models made of brass.»
«I get the inspiration for my models from historic cars in Düsseldorf and around. But also from books and old pictures. »
«The community of model tram enthusiasts is not very large. Here in Germany many people know each other. Via Facebook I met people from other countries, who have the same
Featured Friday: showing your 3D printed designs
“I’m so sad it’s Friday. I wish it was Monday already!” Said No one in history ever. Time to enjoy some of this week’s featured printed items.
Gabe sculpted a ‘Genese Character’ in Mudbox and Softimage (both from Autodesk). The statue is about 8 inch tall, printed in polyamide and has an awesome spikey texture.
The Carapace ring from Noah Beasley is an alien ouroboros ring in gold plated polished brass.
Andreas Rittershofer from http://3ddecodetails.com designs great models to detail the roofs of your model railroad structures! Check out the amazing paint job he did on the cooling unit and air conduct in 1:160 (N-scale). Prime gray shows once more why it is an amazing material for all kinds of scale models.
And last but not least, hailing from Australia, we have the CXB sheep wagon from Marbelup Models. Not just the wagon was printed (prime gray), also the sheep load (alumide). Both the wagon and the sheep (90 of them) were painted to add a realistic te
Summer Meetup at the i.materialise headquarter
We’re happy to announce our next Meetup at the i.materialse headquarter in Leuven! Sign up to join our tour, talk & drinks.
WHO
Every designer, independant business owner, working professional,…. that’s interested in 3D printing. Journalists are welcome as well to meet our designers and follow a tour through one of the biggest 3D printing facilities in the world.
WHY
It’s a great opportunity to meet fellow designers and share your experiences, so don’t forget to bring your 3D printed design. You’ll get to know more about the services we offer, you can see all te materials you can print in and ask all your questions concerning 3D printing to our support engineers.
PROGRAM
- Welcome
- Presentation and see materials
- Tour
- Drink & Talk
WHERE
Materialise
Technologielaan 15
3001 Leuven
WHEN
Friday 28th of June 2013, 14.00-18.00 GMT +2 (Belgium time)
SIGN UP
You can sign up with this link.
Join i.materialise on instagram!
From march on we have been using Instagram to give you a look behind the scenes of the i.materialise team: the projects we’re working on, our events and so much more.
If you’re already using instagram you can follow our little adventures via @imaterialise. Don’t hesitate to share your 3D printing projects with us by using the hashtag #imaterialise or to mention us @imaterialise. We’d love to see what you’re working on!
Featured Friday: showing your 3D printed designs to the world
It’s Friday! Raise your hands and enjoy our featured 3D printed items.
Will du Toit created this great Courage Pendant in high detailed stainless steel: a more stylized version of the classic St. George fighting the dragon.
3D Materialize Ltd created these earrings ‘Vive la Constructivisme’ in High detailed stainless steel. They even made a matching pendant in the same material: all eyes on you if you wear this at a party!
Don’t forget to put your own designs in the gallery to show your work to the world.
Bay Area Maker Faire recap in a word: Awesome
We just got back from the Bay Area Maker Faire over the weekend and wanted to share some highlights with you. This was our first time at the Maker Faire here in the US and it was simply incredible. There were so many people excited to learn about 3D printing and what we do, that we had a constant flow of people in the booth. And we loved getting to meet so many great people, explain our services, and talk about all the cool things that are going on in the 3D printing industry. So thanks to each and every one of you for stopping by.
Our weekend started with a notice of a delayed shipment. Oh no! But we had some samples on hand and made the best of it. And it didn’t stop people from coming by to ask about our services, either. With some quick thinking and a bit of help from @FedExHelp on Twitter, we managed to locate the shipment and get someone out to retrieve it.
So by Sunday, we were back in business. And we had so much great stuff to show everyone! To see our entire booth, take
Cheaper US shipment costs
About a month ago we were very excited to announce to you that we started producing in the US. Today we’re happy to give you some more details about the benefits!
For our US customers we’ll be producing polyamide natural white, blue, red & black, alumide, paintable resin, prime gray and transparent resin models locally. For these orders we’ll apply shipment costs between 10 $-12$ (instead of 18$ ). Should your order also include prints in other materials, standard shipping cost will apply.
Note: To create level playing field between customers, there are no shipping costs for orders above $129 (in line with 99 € threshold applicable in Europe).
Tinkercad is back-and it’s free!
Together with so many others we were really disappointed when Tinkercad announced it’s shut down. Deep down we hoped someone would acquire and save Tinkercad.
And it happened! Autodesk signed a deal to acquire Tinkercad and blow new life into the platform. The official announcement sounds really promising for many makers:
“The shutdown plan has been rolled back and effective immediately new users are again able to sign up for the site. Even better, at the request of Autodesk, we have supercharged the free plan. You can now create unlimited designs, all import and export functionality is enabled and ShapeScripts are turned on for free accounts. We have automatically upgraded all existing free accounts to this new powerful plan. This account will be offered for a limited time only so make sure you sign up as soon as possible.
Before signing the deal we spent a lot of time talking to Autodesk engineers and product people about their vision for Tinkercad. We were impressed by the
Maker Faire update
We’re here at the Bay Area Maker Faire, about 3/4 of the way through the day. It has been GREAT to see all of you who have stopped by so far. Franky was on the Autodesk “Future of 3D Printing” panel, which had some really good questions and answers about future 3D materials, current experimentation with materials, and where the industry is headed.
If you’ve gone by our booth, you may notice that we didn’t quite have all of our promised demos. Unfortunately, we had some delays in getting our items here on time (due a variety of factors beyond our control). We do still have material samples, though, and we’ll continue to be at the booth the rest of the evening and all day Sunday. (We’re working on getting our display pieces before Sunday morning and will update you if we will have additional items in the booth tomorrow.)
In addition, we are still doing our meet-up tonight at The Swingin’ Door here in San Mateo. So if you’re in the area, join us from 8-10 pm for a closer look at som
Featured Friday: showing your 3D printed designs
Congratulations. You survived the work week! Let your weekend start properly with our Featured Friday! Check out the latest gallery entries.
Ari Pisilä 3D printed this brooch in brass gold plated and polished:
“I designed this funky fox for my mother in law since she is a big fan of foxes. This piece of art looks great and feels surprisingly heavy because it’s pretty thick. It has an integrated mechanism behind where a normal safety pin can be inserted.”
Raymond McConnell designed a Puma ring in unpolished stainless steel (old silver finish). This gives it a textured surface looking like fur. The USA ring size of 11 1/2 and a UK ring size of Y.
Our last design comes from Steve Koll. It’s a round cufflink with ginkgo leaf imprint on top. He 3D printed it in Titanium. Gorgeous!
Enjoy your weekend!
