Meet the i.materialise Team: meet Anna.
My name is Anna and I am working as a front-end developer at i.materialise. I’ve been working for more than 6 years in web-development. During this period I’ve worked as a developer and as a designer, as a part of team and as a freelancer. Actually, I like to do lots of different kinds of work, and usually I am in love with what I am doing. It makes me happy to see the results of my work, especially if the result is good.
Maybe it is strange for developer but I am not person of logic, usually I am doing everything by how I feel even if it is against all the rules and all standards of work (maybe I shouldn’t write this on the blog!). Even the area I am working in, IT, was chosen incidentally. I entered my faculty at university because there were preparation courses in my school and most of my friends were entering them too. So, I think that the work chose me, I did not choose  the work. And I’ve never  regretted it. I trust my destiny.
I never worked with 3d-models
Design your own 3D printed Stainless Steel Door handles
At i.materialise we”re all about providing people with high end, complete 3D printed products. Our 3D printed Stainless Steel door handles kit is our newest example of this. Inspired by PeLi Design”s Machine”s Perception door handles we made a kit and manual for you so you can make your very own door handles. The stainless steel 3D printed door handles come complete and one set costs $299 (199 Euro) including shipping. A designer can download the design  kit for Sketchup, 3DS Max, Rhino and OBJ. Together with the manual a proficient designer, 3D modeler or CAD engineer will have the information they need to make their very own. The door handle page, kit and manual is here. Â
We hope people will use this to make their homes more to their liking. At the same time we expect some designers to enter into the world of fixtures and compete directly with established manufacturers by offering their door handles for sale. Are you not a designer? No problem. Use our Sketch to 3DÂ 3D mod
i.materialise Etsy & Facebook shops (copy paste our strategy here)
A question we get often is, “why don”t you have a gallery of designs for sale on i.materialise?” Even though we do incidentally sell some designer”s designs on i.materialise we don”t really believe in having our own gallery. Even though being a destination site makes one more of a platform and is a way to get to more revenue quicker we believe that in the long run its better for designers to sell their designs on their own websites. We might not believe this for ever but we currently believe that in this crowded, info full world, you should grab every lumen of attention given you and convert this into sales. We like the idea of being able to showcase high quality work but don”t feel like in the long run you can guarantee the legitimacy and quality of the work in a gallery. At the same time if you should at one point become popular or produce high quality work we want you to be the center of attention. This will lead to higher conversion rates and more attention and revenue for
Unboxing the Stratasys Fortus 900mc 3D printer
Thinking about printing on a Stratasys Fortus 900mc 3D printer? Now you can via our online 3D printing service. We just installed this 3000 kilo/660 lbs beast in at our headquarters. Check out our unboxing session of the Stratasys Fortus 900mc below.
It was a very exciting day: our newest 3D printer arrived and is now ready to take your orders. It is a Stratasys Fortus 900mc FDM 3D production system and we like it a lot. When people hear the term ‘3D printer’ they often think of desktop printers that can easily be bought online and delivered by post.
But the Stratasys Fortus 900mc is an industrial 3D printer – and a big one! Here is a simple guide to unboxing your Fortus 900mc.
Delivery of the Stratasys Fortus 900mc
Step 1. Open Truck. The blonde guy on the right, in the green tshirt is Robby, he manages the Materialise FDM center, the part of Materialise that 3D prints your ABS plastic designs for you.
Step 2. Remove crate & plastic covers.
Getting the Stra
i.materialise Machine Man Human Augmentation Design Challenge
The i.materialise Machine Man Human Augmentation Design Challenge is inspired by Sci Fi author Max Barry”s book Machine Man. Max, together with other judges, Fab@Home founder and Cornell bio-robotics professor Hod Lipson and 3D printed prosthetics designer Scott Summit will be looking for a design that urges us to look at the future of 3D printing humans.
We’re challenging to design a 3D printed titanium implant or augmentation for the human body. Something that will improve the functionality of the body or improve it aesthetically.
If we can make anything using 3D printing, how will we change ourselves? What will the piercings of the future look like? Will many people use elective implants? What kind of implants will they use? What would be some titanium implants that would make you happy? Some examples could be an earring that attaches to an iPhone to improve reception by turning the person into an antenna, an implant that holds the nose open from the inside to increase ai
Droog at Salone 3D printed by i.materialise
Droog unveiled its Design for Download platform at Salone this year. The concept of Design for Download is that designers can offer customizable designs online. Some could be free, others paid. A person can then select a design, download it and 3D print or lasercut out the design. A timely, rather future proof idea from the folks at Droog. We think the platform has a great future and we”re proud to have been chosen to do the 3D printing for Droog”s Salone show. One item (an electrivity outlet) was 3D printed at a FabLab and the rest of the 3D printed items were done by us.
This flatpack lasercut furniture by  Minale-Maeda has 3D printed connectors and adornments all over it. You can see a thoughtful interview with Mario Minale here.
And here are some Vanity Charms by Minale Maeda.
These are some lovely polyamide flowers for Minale Maeda”s Virtual Florist.
Watch the video here. There is more information on the Droog site here.
The i.materialise Jewelry Design Challenge
Today we have an exciting Design Challenge for jewelry designers. We’re reaching out to you in order to find jewelry design talent. We’re looking for new concepts, techniques and ideas in jewelry design.
We want this challenge to help us discover you so that we can then encourage and promote you and your work.
3D printed jewelry is very new and affords designers with an immense freedom to design. But, very few pieces have really managed to elevate 3D printing pieces to the level of high end jewelry. Can you do this?
Can you design a jewelry piece that elevates 3D printed jewelry? Can you make something that is beautiful, practical and above all “works” as a 3D printed jewel?
What you can win
Ten winners will be selected and their pieces will be offered for sale in the .MGX Store in Sablon Brussels. The jewelry design will always remain your property and you will receive a 5% royalty on every sold item. Due to questions below in the comments we have updated the royal
Interview with Viridis3D President Will Shambley
Will Shambley is a true 3D printing pioneer. He spent eight years directing the 3D printing materials Research and Development effort at Zcorp, the full color 3D printing company. He is now at Viridis3D, a company that sells 3D printers and 3D printing materials used for casting metal and ceramics. He is Viridis3D’s CEO & President. We interviewed Will in order to find out more about Viridis3D and his significant expertise in the 3D printing industry.
Joris Peels: What is Viridis3D?
Will Shambley: Viridis3D, at it’s heart, is a materials development company that focuses on commercializing new solutions for the additive manufacturing community. Our current primary focus is on making molds for metal casting, however we are dabbling in a range of refractory / ceramic applications. We are developing products that we believe have unmet market demand, and we actively solicit projects from universities or individuals who have something unique to bring to market.
A Viridis3
.MGX at Salone: new lamps by Batsheba, Xavier Lust and Wertell Oberfell Platform
Our colleagues from .MGX attended Salone. They were at Euroluce and introduced 4 new 3D printed lamps. 2 lamps, the Quinn & the Gamete, were new versions of designs already in the .MGX collection. The two other lamps are completely new.
First off we have the dodecahedron, Quinn floor lamp by 3D printing pioneer Bathsheba Grossman.
“Tree seeds blowing in the wind” was the inspiration for Xavier Lust”s Gamete lamp.
The Diatom by Wertel Oberfell Platform.
And a last surprise addition, the otherworldly Algue lamp by Xavier Lust. “Algue, an ornamental lamp, seems to ondulate following the streams and moving fluids that surround us… Algue is a lit evocation of the abyssal deapth of the oceans.”
Kinetic 3D Printed Art: Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest
This might be one of the creaziest 3D prints and best kinetic art objects ever: Dutch Artist Theo Jansen 3D printed a miniature of his ‘Strandbeest’ model.
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