.MGX introduces the Diatom lamp by WertelOberfell Platform at Salone
Designers WertelOberfell Platform will introduce their Diatom.MGX lamp at Salone in Milan next week. The duo previously created the Dragonfly.MGX lamp, Fractal.MGXÂ table and the Module.MGX table.
Their new design for our .MGX colleagues is again insprired by nature and mathematical forms. The Diatom lamp is made in stereolitography and dyed. The lamp is beautiful in a very original way. Sometimes when I walked past it it reminded me of an alien artifact and in other light it looked perfectly at home in its surroundings. Its hard to explain just how different the Diatom looks when seen from different angles and in different light. You can see WertelOberfell Platform”s Diatom for yourself at .MGX”s stand at Euroluce, Pavilion 13, Stand G12 at Salone.
C3A, Océ and i.materialise Architect@Work architecture competition
C3A, Océ and i.materialise are organising a 3D and 2D printing contest for Architect@Work. This contest is for Belgian architects.  C3A is a company specialising in software, hardware and training for architects and engineers in the construction industry.  Océ is a € 2,6 billion revenue part of the Canon group that specialises in large format and professional imaging and 2D printing. Together we will be doing a contest that ends at the end of this month. You can submit your entry at C3A Net. There will be 2 categories in the contest 1. A large format 2D print of a AutoCAD, Revit or Sketchup project. 2. a 3D print of a Sketchup project. We will select 3 entries per category and then the visitors to Architect@Work that is taking place in Kortrijk Xpo on May 5th and 6th will be able to vote to decide who the winners are. The 6 entrants designs will be 2D printed on a size of A1 and displayed on the stands of C3A and Océ. The winners can win €600, €500 and €300 in
i.materialise launches Sketch to 3D, A 3D modeling service for 3D printing
Today we are launching Sketch to 3D. Sketch to 3D is a 3D modeling service that can turn your drawings into 3D models. Now you can draw anything you want and get it 3D printed. 3D printing is an amazing technology that potentially can let you make whatever you want. But because few can 3D model it has been impossible for most people to make exactly what they want to make, until now. The democratization of manufacuring has now reached you. Now you have no excuse, you can now 3D print whatever you want to.
We’ve partnered with GrabCAD and together we can turn your thoughts, ideas and drawings into 3D prints. Now you can improve the world around you by making things exactly as you think they should be. Want a better lamp? Make your own using 3D printing. Want a one of a kind gift, sketch it and we’ll make it for you. Need something that doesn’t exist, make it.
The sketch service costs 57 Euro (around $80), the costs of the 3D print will depend on the material you chose and t
3D printing in wood flour
On April Fools, our friends at FOC pulled a well executed prank on everyone by telling the world that they can 3D print in wood using sawdust. Well…it turns out you can 3D print in wood, using wood flour. Wood flour is a fine sawdust like powder made from pulverized wood. A year ago Open3D student Meghan Trainor started doing tests on 3D printing in wood. Later on students  Juliana Meira do Valle and Kate Lien took over the experiments and worked to improve the results. The team now 3D print in black walnut shell flour, pecan shell flour, wood bark flour & wood flour. The team uses a powder based 3D printer which is basically a hacked version of a commercial system. In this case the team has used UF glue as a binder. The recipe for 3D printing in wood is to use 4 to 5 parts wood or nut flour and 1 part UF glue. The initial results are intriguing  and prove once again that the Open3DP team is really pushing the envelope on hacking and improving 3D printers and 3D printi
Be Your Own Souvenir with 3D printing
Be Your own Souvenir was a project that ran in Barcelona in the beginning of this year. Using open source software the project let people pose in front of a Kinect set up and the resulting shape was 3D printed by a RapMan 3D printer. The project aimed to turn consumers into producers and give people the experience of creating their own souvenirs. The installation was on the Rambla and the “project mimics the informal artistic context of this popular street, human sculptures and craftsmen, bringing diverse realities and enabling greater empathy between the agents that cohabit in the public space.” The installation was the work of BlaBlabLAB.
Be Your Own Souvenir! from blablabLAB on Vimeo.
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Patrick Jouin wins a Red Dot Award for his MGX.Bloom lamp
Very loud cheers and congratulations to our colleagues over at .MGX and designer Patrick Jouin. Patrick Jouin has just won a Red Dot Award for his .MGX.Bloom lamp in the category outstanding product design!
The Bloom table lamp is inspired by nature. As many flowers do the Bloom can actually bloom by opening and closing. The entire lamp shade is 3D printed and the shade is produced in one piece and works straight out of the 3D printer. By letting the lamp bloom you can mechanically regulate the light that comes out of it. Opening and closing this lamp is addictive as you can see the hinges move and the entire body slot into itself. Its a wonderful lamp to look at but also a powerful example of the power of 3D printing. Its a huge honor for the lamp to be awarded with a RedDot and I”m sure all of our colleagues are happy not only for .MGX but also because Patrick Jouin”s beautiful design is 3D printed here at Materialise. The same 3D printers and the same high level of c
Priority 24 get your 3D prints quicker
Faster 3D prints anyone? We’ve just launched Priority 24. Priority 24 is a way for you to get your 3D prints quicker. With this option we will 3D print your design within 24 hours. When you get it depends on where you live. If you order before 12:00 CET on a Monday we will produce it within 24 hours and ship it Tuesday. If you’re in the UK, Belgium, France, Netherlands and Germany your order should be delivered on Wednesday. If you’re in a US major city you should also get it on Wednesday also. Major Asian cities will get their orders on Thursday.
- To use this service choose the Polyamide Priority material when uploading.
- You can order models up to 100 by 100 by 100mm.
- Priority makes your order 30% more expensive.
- If you miss the 12:00 CET deadline it will arrive one day later.
- If there is an issue with your model that we have to fix or come back to you with questions about, it will also take at least one day more.
- Customs hold ups or shipping delays might delay the ar
Free shipping on orders above $99
We”ve looked at the results of our free shipping experiment over the past few weeks. The results were very encouraging and lead to an increase of orders from faraway places. In light of this we”re now offering you free shipping on any and all orders that are more than $99 or 99 Euro depending on which currency you pay us in. We like the fact that we can make it cheaper for you to order from us and can now get your goods, concept models, lamps, book ends and all the other awesomeness for less. We hope this encourages you to make more things with us and let more of your creations to stream in for us to make.
We know that many people would like to also have free shipping on orders below $99. At the moment we”re not ready to do this. There is a lot of handling involved with small parts and this drives up their cost and overal costs. It will be easier for us to control costs and lower overal prices in the long term if we concentrate on stimulating you to make larger pieces. In
The Periodic Table of Materials
At the same time, we put a lot of effort into making detailed information pages about each material. This should help you find the material that best suits your needs as a designer or inventor.
So, we’ve described all the materials, made some sample pictures, collected information about coloring options, thought about the typical use of a certain material, and created videos about different 3D printing technologies. For steel and titanium we wrote design guides to get you on the right track. And we did even more, but we”d rather let you discover that for yourself.
Learning about mater
First World War Soldier identified using 3D Printing
A team of researchers from Canada”s Directorate of History and Heritage have managed to identify the remains of a First World Soldier. The team used forensic anthropology, facial reconstruction, isotopic analysis and…3D printing to identify the fallen soldier.
Canadian private Thomas Lawless was killed on June 8th 1917. His body, along with a comrade, was discovered in 2003 on a construction site. The comrade could be identified using DNA testing but the team were unable to find a  mitochondrial DNA sample to compare Private Lawless” DNA to.
The initial scan of the remains. Image credit Steve Kruithof.
“The identification team created 3D computer models of Lawless”s skull, derived from CT scan data of several large skull fragments, in order to narrow the list of possible matches for the remains. Physical models of the skull were produced using a Z Corporation 3D printer (..). Using muscle markings on the skull model, scientific tissue-depth tables and plastili
