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Month: October 2014

The Launch of a 3D Printed Rocket

The Launch of a 3D Printed Rocket

BOLDROCKET has an ambitious plan: to deliver aspiring business and technology solutions to the finance services industry that changes the traditional way that people think. Set out with a mission to foster a creative environment in the office, D+DS architecture designed the office and approached Materialise to print a 3.7-meter-long orange 3D Printed rocket for BOLDROCKET’s new office in London. The giant rocket sits suspended in the air alongside a wall patterned with plants that mimic the smoke bellowing out of a rocket at take-off.
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3D Printing Spotted at NY Fashion Week in Katie Gallagher’s Spring/Summer 2015 Collection

3D Printing Spotted at NY Fashion Week in Katie Gallagher’s Spring/Summer 2015 Collection

Fantasm. No, that is not a misspelling: it is the original spelling of the modern-day word “phantasm”, which describes something that can only be perceived. Before you start to have a cold sweat with flashbacks to the epistemology chapter in your Philosophy 101 class, let’s ease your mind by showing you some pictures of Katie Gallagher’s “Fantasm” Spring 2015 collection.

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ZBrush Tutorial: Cleaning Up a 3D Model for 3D Printing

ZBrush Tutorial: Cleaning Up a 3D Model for 3D Printing

Scanning and 3D printing is a match made in heaven. However, scans typically need some cleaning up before we can send them to a 3D printer. Luckily, 3D sculpting software ZBrush is perfect for doing the trick. ZBrush is great for design program for 3D modeling and 3D sculpting organic objects. You can start from scratch or import scans to work on. In this tutorial character artist, Matt Bagshaw will show us how to scan your head for free and how to prepare the 3D model for 3D printing in ZBrush. 

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