Featured Friday: the 3D Printshow special
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. This weeks Featured Friday is dedicated to our designers who were present in any way at the 3D Printshow in London.
If their designs weren’t on display at our booth, you could find them in the Art Gallery, or admire them during the fashion show. A big thank you to – in no particular order – Michiel Cornelissen, Simon de Bakker, Jon Stam, Josh Henry, Monomer, Flavio Bellantuono, Kevin Wei, PeLiDesign, Samson Design Studio, Maddics, Vangelis et Dinos, Bert De Niel, Matthew Schneider, Mikko Kuitunen, Henrik Rydberg, and Mark Casson. The fashion show showed some amazing pieces from Mark Bloomfield, Dario Scapitta, Song Bowen, and Rob Elford.
And last but not least, a big thank you to Autodesk 123D and Tinkercad for making designing in 3D accessible and fun!
PS: Don’t forget our challenge ‘Christmas Ornaments’ is still go
Get creative with i.materialise and Tinkercad
At the 3D Printshow in London past weekend, i.materialise hosted a workshop together with Tinkercad, the easy to use 3D design web app. First, Tinkercad’s Technical Artist Pekka showed a packed workshop room how to design a saw shaped alligator wrench. Second, I showcased all possible 3D printing materials and finishes, and more importantly how to get your designs 3D printed through i.materialise.
For those of you who didn’t get their hands dirty during the hands-on workshop, we have some good news. Pekka has made the contents of the workshop available on Tinkercad as a ‘Lesson’. A lesson shows you step-by-step how to create your own handy little tool from scratch!
Or if you’re already in love with this cool gadget, you can just buy it in our gallery.
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The revolution begins here: 3D Printshow in London
What a great weekend we had in London! The 3D Printshow was overwhelming and crowded at times, but very interesting because of the people you meet and the stories you hear.
Was it the result of the hype around 3D printing? Or did the revolution really start past weekend? It’s hard to tell. But we can say we never saw more people attending a 3D printing event than this one. Not only designers and software companies appeared; also families, students, hobbyists and people who were just generally interested in this ‘new’ industry were very enthusiastic visitors.
What surprised me the most were the inventive designs people are now able to create. The (fashion) show on friday night gave some hints of what people could expect during the weekend, but when you could take a closer look in the galleries afterwards it abolutely blew me away. There were amazing pieces showcased of Niccolo Casas , Matthew Plummer- Fernandez, INNER | LEAF , Iris van Herpen, Michiel Cornelissen, Frans
Who is (y)our Business Developer
Hi all
Although I did some –very occasional- blog posts here, my colleague Tatiana asked me (many times already) to also ‘officially’ introduce myself. My name is Martijn, 30 years old. I work on i.materialise business development. My days are filled with exploring and shaping new products, collaborations and partnerships.
I Live in Antwerp (great city -but unfortunately- far away from Materialise). They say people from Antwerp are very ‘chauvinistic’. I don’t think I am, but we did create a vase once based on the logo of the city and presented it. We never got it back : )
I studied Product development at the academy of Antwerp – and followed an additional year in product Innovation. It feels like a long time ago. But fun it was.
I started working at Materialise, in the –hold on- ‘Rapid prototyping and manufacturing software department’ as the first business developer. Shortly after, the 3Dprinting virus bit me and we started looking into new ideas/products & market. Especia
3D4D Challenge: discover the finalists!
Who will win 100.000 dollar for their 3D printed social project? Only five days to go til we can give you an answer to this question, but we didn’t want to wait to present you the 8 finalists!
All the finalists will get 1000 dollar and expert mentors to develop their projects, but ofcourse their can only be one winner: What project will win the big prize, namely 100.000 dollar? The jury got entries from all over the world and picked out 8 finalists. To give you a better view on the competition, we present you the projects.
BORIS COGAN- Israel/US
This finalist has got an easy to manufacture and assemble robotic greenhouse in mind. The project would enable local communities to produce vegetables and fruit very easy, even in the hardest conditions.
EDMUND BELL-KING and CORNELL JACKSON – United Kingdom
Ed and Cornell’s project involves the development of Solar lamps created from used plastic Coke bottles using 3D printed ‘bottle caps’ and attachments for the charger, batte
Guestblog Tom Kurke: Attacking the 3D Printing Hype Cycle
In ten years we will 3D print our houses and have at least one 3D Printer at home. We all hear these stories, but what should we believe? Tom Kurke, COO of Geomagic, gives his view on the 3D printing hype.
No offense to Gartner, but I believe they’ve gotten it wrong in their assessments of 3D printing and 3D scanners in their ‘Hype Cycle‘ info graphics. Gartner concludes that both 3D printing and scanning are 5-10 years away from their ‘plateau of productivity.’ While it is certainly debatable when mass customization and the concept of a personal factory will be unlocked by the democratization of 3D capture and production technologies – these tools are being used productively, now, in a wide range of businesses.
It’s easy for a research analyst, writer, blogger, industry pundit or other predictor of ominous events to throw cold water on innovation and creativity. But the question remains, how does hype transition to a market- and game-changing shift that impacts the way people li
Newsflash: High detailed stainless steel (HS) has entered the building!
It’s all in the details. With high detailed stainless steel (HS), you can go wild with your designs. We tested the materials for a few weeks now and it looks pretty stunning. You can situate the material between silver and titanium. It’s pretty much as strong as titanium, but more shiny and mostly less expensive. Towards silver it’s less shiny but stronger. So if you’re looking for alternatives with a very high detailed standard: this could be the one!
For weeks we were (and are) excited to finally tell you the news and give you, as a designer, more -detailed- options. Wim, even did a test on rust: he put a high detailed stainless steel design in a bath with salt and no marks of rust are visible. We can’t wait to discover what you’ll design with this material!
We’re still waiting to put HS on our material page: we will let you try, play and test the material until the end of the year and see whether the material is worth to have its own place on our material page. We
London calling: visit i.materialise at the 3D Printshow
Only ten more days to go and the 3D Printshow in London will start off for the first time. We, the i.materialise-team will be present so come and check us out at our booth or join one of our workshops.
The Brewery in London is getting ready for their first 3D Printing event ever. From the 19th until the 21st of October the days will be filled with workshops, seminars and live 3D printing shows.
Come check out our booth (K21): we will show you a selection of designs made by designers of our community such as the 3D printed retro Bioscope, designed by Jon Stam & Simon de Bakker and of course Josh Henry’s amphibious ‘Ula Miami Concept Car’ will be making its European debut at our booth! Also, be sure to check out Iris van Herpen’s dress from the Escapism collection- 3D printed at Materialise.
WORKSHOPS
Need a workout? No problem. We have two on offer on Saturday 20th of October:
- Workshop with Tinkercad (15:00-16:00) to introduce you to their easy to use 3D web application. W
Looking for a good 3D modeler? Find one on our Forum!
You have some great ideas in your head to 3D print, but you don’t know how to design in 3D? No problem, with our 3D modeling service on the forum you can easily find a qualified 3D modeler.
Now that 3D printing is getting bigger and becoming mainstream, more and more people want to design 3D printable objects. Of course, not everyone has the set of skills to do that. So we reserved a special place on the forum with a list of qualified designers to help you out. Check out the 3D modeler service to find a 3D modeler yourself. We already checked 2 designers and put their services online.
Are you a designer yourself that wants to offer your services? Check out our application form and fill it in. We will check your portfolio and 3D modeling skills before you can become a listed designer like Dot San or Visualize-to.
Note that i.materialise is not liable for any transactions taking place between users. Therefor we won’t have a ranking system for listed designers. In case of com
Back to school Meetup: new faces, new ideas!
What an exciting meeting we had last Friday; We saw some familiar faces, but most of them were new, coming from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
CURIOUS
Although the group was very quiet in the beginning – which is normal, since they didn’t know each other- after the i.materialise presentation everyone started to socialize. While checking out the materials and asking our support engineers questions about material strength, cost and so on some were really glad to show projects they were working on. Other people didn’t have any experience in 3D printing at all, but were curious about the whole process and were thinking about working with 3D modelers for their jewelry design or other objects.
ACTION
Next on the program was the tour through the Materialise buildings. People are always very excited to see a few of the 72 printers in action and hear interesting 3D printing stories. It gives a good view on the in-house machines and production. It’s always funny to see how
