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
Introducing the new 3D print lab
We’ve just released a new and improved version of our 3D print lab. Let’s take a look at some of the new things we introduced.
We haven’t changed the main idea of how the 3D print lab works. With no login required, you still upload a 3D file of your design for which you’ll see an instant price. Then you choose a material, a color/finish, rescale the model if necessary and order as many copies as you want. Knowing there is always room for improvement, we have gathered your feedback from the past months to make your overall ‘upload and order’ experience even better.
WHAT’S NEW?
So what did we change to improve?
After successfully uploading your design, prices for all materials are calculated at once. In the old 3D print lab you’d only see a price for polyamide, the default material. Now, you’ll see different prices for different materials.
A better distinction of color/finish options.
Displayed discounted prices. For some materials, quantity discounts appl
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Roberto Trentin gather the most votes in the last Valentine’s challenge. His ‘hearts embraced’ ring was printed in high detailed stainless steel. Roberto: “This ring represents the embrace of two hearts with a hidden message, a declaration of love in Italian: “ti amo”, immersed in the decoration as a sort of secret statement.”
‘Diamonds are Forever’ is an eclectic mix of multiple abstract gems and a classical solitaire, confined in silver mineral formations. A beautiful ring in high gloss silver by Isaie Bloch, the second winner of the Valentine’s challenge.
And last but not least, Pinar Timur printed a case and a case back of a watch in stainless steel and the bezel in titanium. The watch has a automatic winding Swiss movement, is waterproof, and has a functioning rotating bezel. The dial was made by acid etching and painted with glow in the dark luminous
Flexible 3D Printed Fashion Hits the Catwalk with Iris van Herpen, Julia Koerner and Materialise
Recently, on the catwalks of the Spring Fashion Week 2013 in Paris, 3D printing was again a major highlight in Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture show, ‘VOLTAGE’. Collaborating with 2 pioneers of the 3D printing industry, the Dutch designer presented never-before-seen 3D printed Haute Couture. Van Herpen is without any doubt the leading lady of Haute Couture and 3D printed fashion.
COLLABORATION
Dutch designer Iris van Herpen’s eleven-piece collection featured two 3D printed ensembles, including an elaborate skirt and cape created in collaboration with artist, architect, designer and professor Neri Oxman from MIT’s Media Lab, and 3D printed by Stratasys. An intricate dress was also designed in collaboration with Austrian architect Julia Koerner, currently lecturer at UCLA Los Angeles, and 3D printed by Materialise, marking the second piece created together with Koerner and the ninth with Materialise .
A MATTER OF TIME
“I feel it’s important that fashion can be about much more
Polyamide: Now available in pink!
Today on Valentine’s Day, we’re introducing something new to our color/finish range of polyamide: pink! That brings us to a total of 15, which is the amount of different options we offer to finish your favorite material.
Polyamide comes in a natural white color out of the 3D printer. But we know some of you like to bring some color into your designs. So, we’ve added pink to our range of dyed colors. Remember, you can now also dye bigger volumes with a bounding box up to 200 mm x 200 mm x 180 mm (instead of 150 x 150 x 150 mm). What’s even more: order a large (we’re talking over 150 x 150 x 150 mm) polyamide design in a color between February 11th and March 10th and get a 10 % discount on your next order! It’s finally time to print that huge piggy bank you’ve always wanted.
Are you eager to see and feel the pink material? Just buy one of our colored sample kits.
With 16 materials and over 70 finishes, i.materialise offers one of the widest material range
Valentine story #2: How to propose with the help of 3D printing
Hywel Vaughan and his girlfriend Sarah had been together for just over three years. As his New Years resolution of 2012, he decided to ask her to marry him. Being an industrial designer though, Hywel figured he could do something much better than just buying a ring from a shop.
Hywel has been so nice to post photos and instructions of how to make the ring on Instructables. It includes everything from buying the gem stone to the actual proposal! In December of 2012, he surprised Sarah with a trip to Bruges in Belgium. Sarah had no idea they were going anywhere until Hywel came down the stairs with packed bags and directed her to the taxi waiting outside! A brief Eurostar trip later, the couple was in Bruges walking next to the canals in the moonlight. At a quiet spot next to the ‘lovers lake’, he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. She said yes, with the biggest smile he had ever known her to have.
“The finish on the ring was fantastic, and the accuracy of the product
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday! Let’s go into the weekend with some wonderful new designs. Let’s hit it off with The Ring of The Monkey Pirate King.
Inspired by Pirates of the Carribean, Tintin, Monkey Island, and ancient Inca gold, Ben Dansie created this dazzling ring. 3D printed in silver (gloss finish) and hand finished with Liver of Sulphur for the dark patina.
Human White Matter Tracts
Prevue Medical presents the world’s first accurate model of the wiring of the human brain. It seems these structures have never been reproduced in 3D, until now. The model scale is 1:1 and shows various connections between parts of the brain. These connections are beneath the familiar gray matter, embedded in the white matter of the brain. The individual fibers are actually microscopic, so bundles of fibers are here represented by millimeter scale tracts.
Bogies for R Class Diesel
And last but not least, a nice work in progress from Richard from WA SN 3-1/2 Models. 3D p
3D printing a GoPro Scuba Mount
Described as the world’s most versatile camera, GoPro has sold over 3 million cameras over the past three years. It’s a camera that is quite unlike what you are used to. A GoPro is not meant to be handheld but to be mounted on surfboards, skateboards, helmets, bikes, and so on. And if the standard sold mounts are not your thing, you just design one and 3D print it. Just like Felipe De La Torre, a high school senior/scuba diver from Pacoima, California did.
“This was my first 3D printed design. I always found the technology really interesting… thought I’d give it a go. Honestly, it was a bit difficult for me to design this, considering I didn’t have much experience going into this. However I got ideas from similar mounts and figured I would make a derivative composed of multiple ideas. Luckily, it worked out in the end… the design was everything I thought it to be.” – Felipe De La Torre
Why a tool for his camera? Well… the real reason is that he just didn’t have the heart to dri
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s friday and you all know what that means. This week, polyamide is reclaiming its crown for all featured designs. Enjoy!
Recently, the first Drone Games competition was hosted at the Groupon San Francisco offices. Drone Games is a NodeCopter-Style programming competition powered by drones and JavaScript. Hackers will receive one Parrot AR Drone 2.0 so they can work on their project. The day of the Games, hackers will get a chance to present their work to other attendees and judges. Winners and runner ups received some really cool 3D printed medals, designed in Tinkercad by Pekka Salokannel.
What if your card holder you had for years suddenly starts to fall apart? You just fire up Blender like Joost De Cock and design your own.
Mickael Vogel designed a case for a remote control that works with infrared transmission. I do wonder what it controls.
Finally, here’s Mark Bloomfield again with a ‘Secret garden charm‘. Beautiful and intricate as always. Wear it as a
Yes! 3D Printed PU Coated Brass Is Back
Good news for jewelry designers and brass fans: Brass PU coated is back in the building! The previous material didn’t live up to our expectations, but after some more tests we’re ready to run a new trial period! (more…)
