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3D Printing Design Tips from Professional Designers

3D Printing Design Tips from Professional Designers

Designing for 3D printing is not always an easy task. While creativity has no limits when you’ve mastered the right 3D design software, optimizing 3D designs for 3D printing can be tricky for beginners.

That’s why we wanted to offer you a compilation of the best design tips for 3D printing given by those who know it well: 3D professional designers.  How does their 3D design process look like? Which 3D printing software do they use? Which tips would they give to new 3D designers? Read on to discover their thoughts!

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Looking for 3D Printing Inspiration. What Do You Think?

Looking for 3D Printing Inspiration. What Do You Think?

2018 is here and we wanted to wish you a Happy New Year!

We also have a little favour to ask you.

3D printing is an ever-growing subject and it can be approached from many different angles. We are coming up with new ideas for our blog in 2018 and we would like to know your opinion on the topics we should cover, as well as the kind of content you enjoy reading about the most.

At the end of the day, you are the reason why we write and it’s important for us to know why you read our stories.

To make things easier we prepared a little survey. It will take just 50 seconds (we promise, we’ve timed it!).

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The Best 3D-Printed Jewelry Stories of the Year

The Best 3D-Printed Jewelry Stories of the Year

We couldn’t finish looking back at 2017 without a special mention of some of our favorite 3D-printed jewelry designer stories. There are so many 3D jewelry artists working with us, who continuously show how broad the possibilities of materials and styles are when working with 3D printing! This year we featured some of them on our blog.

In case you missed the interviews, discover our favorite jewelry designer stories of 2017 here!

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Top 5 Mammoth Resin Designs

Top 5 Mammoth Resin Designs

Resin is one of our most appreciated materials for 3D printing. From the different options of resin available on i.materialise, there is one that stands out for its size: 3D printing in Mammoth Resin. This 3D printing material is the best option for those looking for big-scale prints with great surface quality.

Thanks to these qualities, Mammoth resin is the favorite material of many designers and artists. We have put together a compilation of the best Mammoth Resin 3D designs of all time and the results are impressive. Get ready to be amazed!

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Blueberries: 3D-Printed Jewelry that goes to Infinity and Beyond

Blueberries: 3D-Printed Jewelry that goes to Infinity and Beyond

When designer Zbyněk Krulich and jewelry maker Markéta Richterová met in 2012 during the blueberry season, their jewelry brand, Blueberries, was born. That very same year they were awarded the Czech Grand Design Award for the best jewelry of the year.

Since then, this 3D-printed luxury jewelry brand based in Prague hasn’t stopped creating beautiful jewelry collections, which combine abstract geometry and natural patterns.

In 2017, they launched their new collection, Infinity, and we wanted to know all about it, as well as the source of their inspiration and their passion for 3D printing.

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