Free orange dye for the inauguration of Dutch king Willem-Alexander!
One more day and the Netherlands will have a new king. To celebrate the inauguration of Willem-Alexander we’re launching a new polyamide finish: orange dye! What’s even better: we’re offering the finish for FREE for two weeks (until the 15th of May).
Our Product Designer Bert already had some fun with the finish. What would you make with it?
- Dimensions max 200 x 200 x 180 mm
- Pricing: 0,25€ per cm³ on top of the natural white color price + a start up of 1€ per type of model with a maximum of 20€.
Do you want to see the finish yourself? Order some samples! It’s the best way to get a good sense of the materials. You can buy a basic sample kit or seperate samples.
With 16 materials and over 70 finishes, i.materialise offers one of the widest material ranges in the world to 3D print in. We’re always making sure our designers get the best quality offer and with our design guides on the material pages, we lead you to the finish of your design.
i.materialise started producing in the US!
We’re happy to announce we started producing in the US!
Since i.materialise is an international 3D printing service, we want to produce more regional to cut shipping costs and delivery times. Recently we started producing several materials in the US but we’re still finalizing the details.
So stay tuned to find out more news about the improved US shipment dates!
Natural PU coated brass is back!
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!
We weren’t really satisfied with the PU coated brass last time: it was too shiny and the distinction with the gold plated version wasn’t good enough.
Wim, (y)our Business Process Manager, did some tests to offer brass with a more natural look. Now we’ve found a new process to give our community the brass we were aiming to give them.
If you look at the picture you see the differences regarding finishings. Michael Mueller, who designed the spintop you see in the picture: “It’s less shiny than the gold plated brass. I like this!”
Some people asked us why we use the PU coating, well, it’s for the following reason: it protects your design from oxidation, scratches and skin irritations (if you have a very sensitive skin).
“Oxidation? I love oxidation!” We know a lot of people from the Steampunk community love th
Dezeen and Blurb launch magazine Print Shift
Dezeen launches Print Shift, a print-on-demand magazine about 3D printing produced in collaboration with cutting-edge publisher Blurb.
3D Printing is changing the lives of many people. For this reason Dezeen just launched a magazine to cover different aspects of the 3D printing world such as fashion, design, architecture and the medical industry. The Magazine features interviews with the key pioneers driving this strategic shift, including fashion designer Iris van Herpen and Belgium-based Materialise.
Our director, Miranda Bastijns, will be speaking at the press conference today to give everyone a heads up about 3D printing.
Print Shift is the result of extensive research into the 3D printing technology. Dezeen has spoken to architects, designers, scientists and researchers around the world, travelled across Europe and visited some of the leading studios and factories -such as Materialise– at the cutting edge of a technological revolution.
Features in the
‘A Design Award 3D printed by i.materialise
We’re happy to announce that we 3D printed one of the A’ Design Awards, the annual juried design competition that honors the best designers worldwide! The design comes from OMC Studios Italy. Check out the pictures:
‘A Design Award by OMC Design Studios Italy.
The award is 3D printed in nice red transparent resin.
The winners will be announced publicly on Monday the 15th of April.
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
Priority: 48 hours but bigger volumes!
We’ve got so many questions to print bigger volumes with the priority service that we needed to make some changes.
Your deadline is coming closer and you still need to 3D print a bigger model? No problem. Instead of a 24 hour service, we are turning it into a 48 hour service. You can now order prints with a volume up to 200 x 100 x 100 mm!
How can you use this service?
- To use this rush service choose polyamide priority when uploading.
- You can order models of up to 200 x 100 x 100 mm.
- Priority makes your order 30% more expensive.
- If you miss the 12:00 CET deadline, your order will arrive one day later.
- National and Public Holidays (Belgium) have to be added to the printing time.
- If there’s an issue with your model that we have to fix or if we have to come back to you with questions, it will take at least one day more to process.
- Customs hold ups or shipping delays might delay the arrival of your order.
Have fun designing bigger volumes!
First 3d printing gallery in Amsterdam
Amsterdam is getting ready for the first 3D printing exposition ever. The initiative comes from a bunch of creative entrepreneurs with a passion for 3D printing.
Do you want to find out more about the mystic world of 3D printing? Then don’t miss this exposition in Amsterdam. From the 6th of April until the 2nd of June you can enjoy the exposition ‘XYZ Shaping Free Dimensions’ which will showcase designs from i.materialise community members Ilse Vermeulen and Eric van Straaten among others like 3D printing artist Nick Ervinck who 3D printed his collection at Materialise and Joshua Harker, famous from his Kickstarter project. With this project Ground3D wants to introduce everyone in the 3D printing Maker movement.
Our nice colleagues from .MGX added designs from the exclusive .MGX collection to show to the public, so get ready to discover high level 3D printed interior creations from top designers Xander Lust, Jiri Evenhuis, Janne Kyttanen, Bathsheba Grossman, Patrick Jo
Goodbye Tinkercad. 3DTin anyone?
It’s so sad to hear Tinkercad will disappear. But luckily it’s not the only modeler tool that works in a browser. Jayesh Salvi, founder and developer of 3DTin has ensured i.materialise the continuation of his software platform.
We haven’t heard from 3DTin in a while, but this web based CAD program is, like Tinkercad, also an app that lets you save and share the designs you make. If you export your file you can print it through the i.materialise service.
Some people say its user interface is more complex, but Jayesh Salvi is working on that: “Over 3 years we have built a simple 3D modeling workflow in 3DTin. A lot of users who find traditional 3D modeling tools too daunting, use 3DTin to quickly put together their ideas. We have built a well thought interface for this crowd. At one point we reached a feature-complete state for 3DTin. It became clear that adding more functionality to the existing tool without careful thought is going to spoil it for our existing user-base. So
Tinkercad announces its closure
Only one hour ago we heard the sad news about Tinkercad its closure. The founders decided to concentrate on a new simulation environment called Airstone.
” Our vision was that a software platform created specifically for supercomputers would let us build some very exciting applications. In early 2011 we launched Tinkercad on this platform. It was the first cloud-based 3D CAD ever built and has grown to be a successful product in its category.
In parallel with Tinkercad, we continued development of the core platform. In October 2012, we launched a scripting interface for one of the key components, the Gen6 geometry modeling kernel. And finally, in late 2012, we had several major breakthroughs in our research work on the core platform that opened up application possibilities we had never imagined possible.
In response to these breakthroughs, I’m excited to announce an updated roadmap. There are two major parts to the new roadmap: 1) we are working on an innovative new simulation
