Luigi Vaghi and Miel Wellens win our Urban Nomad contest!
We saw many nice entries, but of course only one per category can win. After the votes of Flanders DC and our team were counted we selected the best entries . Miel Wellens and Luigi Vaghi are the winners of the challenge!
Miel Wellens was really pushing himself to the limit in this challenge; we received four designs and each single one was very popular amongst the jury members. He is the big winner of this competition; he wins his 3D prints ‘Pencilery’ and ‘Paperspin’ in the categories stainless steel and polyamide, besides that we will showcast his design at the festival of creativity. I think these two items need a little explanation. The designer invented a new word, especially for this design, namely: pencilery = pencils + cutlery!
Why this fits in the theme? Wellens: “Even on the road you want to eat with descent forks or knives (instead of the crappy plastic ones), so that’s how I came up with this easy solution. They also fit at the back of pencils, for those creative peop
Ho ho ho….New Challenge: Christmas Ornaments!
ABOUT THE CHALLENGE
Leafs are falling from the trees, the temperatures are getting lower and people are dressed warmer and warmer. Only three months before Christmas we want to present you our new challenge: The Christmas Ornaments Challenge! Christmas balls, little reindeer figures,…surprise us!
RULES
Participants need to upload their file here. You can find more information about the file formats in our FAQs under ‘website’. The material for this challenge is polyamide.
There are limits on the size of the design:
Bounding box polyamide: 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm
SUBMISSION PERIOD
From today on you can submit your designs on the website until 1 pm UMT+2 (summertime), October 31st 2012.
THE JURY
We will put the renders on Facebook the 1st of November and let everyone decide until the 5th of November. The one with the most likes wins the challenge.
PRIZES
The designer with the most likes on Facebook wins its own 3D printed design. We will also put the winn
i.materialise meets Fablab iMAL
i.MAL ( (interactive Media Art Laboratory), has just opened the first Brussels based FabLab which offers a digital manufacturing workspace. i.materialise is very happy to offer every designer a discounts of 10%.
I was a bit curious about the opening of the FabLab.iMAL, because I really didn’t know what to expect. But as soon as I entered the building it became clear to me; this lab is amazing! It breathes creativity and it’s perfect to brainstorm with other designers/ inventors. It’s not just a lab full of designers just designing anything, they also support a good cause: they really want to attract young people with innovative and fun activities to make technology and science career fields more popular. To support this mission we are very happy to give designers of Fablab a discount of 10%.
Watch the pictures below to get a better view on the lab.
FabLab.iMAL follows the MIT fablab charter, is integrated with the network of european fablabs and collaborates
Facebook/Forum Challenge: Ferran Bruguera and Els Cuvelier win a voucher of 250 euro!
It was a tough race, but Ferran Bruguera could convince the jury with his nice project Moosca. Els Cuvelier on the other hand won the hearts of the people on Facebook with her ring Woman.
As soon as the pictures were on Facebook; people started linking and liking and liking…After a very exciting start, it became clear Els Cuvelier her ring Woman was winning the race, she ended the challenge with 173 likes.
For the forum we, the i.materialise team, was in charge of the votes. Since the votes were so diverse, we ended up with a shortlist on which we voted again: Boxing ring, Heart of Time, Lumi-Girl with the Caged Dress, Moosca, Custom Wedding ring and Julia vase. But, although it was very close, ofcourse there can only be one winner and thats……………..MOOSCA! We found the story very interesting and congratulate him with his great project and hope to see much more about him in the future.
The superhero Moosca will conquer more hearts in the future.
Both winner
New: Titanium online pricing and textures in 3D Printlab
We’re happy to anounce to you the following updates on our website: our trial period for titanium is over and you’re now able to see your uploaded 3D design with texture ánd color!
From now on we can serve you with exact online prices and details about the designs on our website . The maximum size we offer is 200 x 250 x 400 mm. The minimum wall thickness for your design has to be at least 0,2 millimeter, the minimum detail size 0,1. Titanium can be great for jewelry because you normally can’t have any allergic reaction from it. And although it’s not the cheapest material to work with, it’s definitely the strongest material you can 3D print.
COLOR
The second update is about your uploaded 3D designs. Before, when you uploaded your design, you just saw your 3D model in grey, but those days are over: from now on you can see your design in full color!
Next to that: when you upload a compressed file in the 3D print lab (obj, mtl and images) you can see textures to have a better vie
Share your uploaded 3D design to the world!
Always wanted to show your uploaded 3D design to friends or family? Now you can! Our share function makes it possible for other people to see your uploaded design so you can ask their opinion.
Sometimes, you just need an opinion about your design. You’re not sure about the size, the material and other people may help with that. Now you do these things in one simple click. When you upload your design in our 3D printlab just click on ‘share your model’. You will get a link so you can send it to everyone you want. But be careful: the link only works for thirty days!
Or you want to give other people the possibility to print your design? No problem: click and share! It doesn’t only seem easy: it IS easy. So why don’t you try it yourself?
Keep your creativity going.
For your information: Titanium online pricing is now available!
Digital Forming workshop: Designers test new software
Last friday we had the honour to meet 10 designers to test the software of Digital Forming. Probably you already know some of them (Bernat from Cunicode, Michiel Cornelissen, Studio Mango and Elleke van Gorsel from Studio-ePosh), but we were happy to meet new designers as well!
Digital forming…say what? Digital forming is a concept whereby designers create a basic design, but it can be customized by others. All the creations can be 3D printed in the very end. So as a designer you benefit from two things: you can create something you want and for the client it gets more interesting because, without having any design experience, it’s possible to personalize the design.
The company Digital Forming gave our designers the opportunity to experience this cutting edge technology first-hand. “Isn’t it going to be too difficult for me to use the software,” was a comment we often heard before the workshop started. And it seemed hard in the beginning, but some found it very easy to pick it
Take ordinary pictures with your iPhone and turn them into a 3D Model
Autodesk 123D is making 3D printing so much easier in our everyday lives with their new iPhone application. From today on you can create 3D models by taking pictures on your iPhone and uploading it with the app.
It’s always nice to walk around with your iPhone and make pictures of beautiful things you see. You can share it through social media or just show it to your friends. But how cool is it to have the opportunity to actual recreate a design you have seen? Autodesks 123D Catch for iPhone is all about recreating. And the greatest thing about it: it’s completely free!
MODEL
LeeAnn Manon, Autodesk: “For people with limited 3D printing or 3D modeling experience, 123D Catch is a great way to create and print a realistic model. You can create a capture on your iPhone and then open it in the web app (it’s automatically saved in My Corner). Just use the simple model editing and healing tools to finish it up for printing, and then simply click ‘3D Print it’ to send it through the 123
Transparent resin online pricing and new samplekits: Check it out!
We’ve got some great news for you! We’re happy to say to you our trial period for transparent resin is finally over!
So from now on we can serve you with exact online prices and details about the designs on our website . The maximum size we offer is 2100 x 700 x 800 mm. You can choose the basic finish for your design but we do offer a technical finish.
When you choose a technical finish for your transparent resin model, the support material (which is needed during the printing process) is first removed. Then your model is hardened under UV light and varnish is applied on all surfaces. This varnish is applied to your model to protect it from dust and discoloration. It makes a part transparent. Adding a small amount of paint to the varnish enables bit of color to be added to this transparency.
Besides, we can also paint your transparent model (bye bye transparency). There are 4 types of paint: dead matt, matt, satin, and high gloss. The difference lies in the gloss factor. In ot
Major Tinkercad update: you can now import 2D/3D designs!
Today, the folks at Tinkercad released one of their coolest features ever: the possibility to import existing 2D or 3D designs. Tinkercad is a free 3D design app that runs in the browser by using the latest web technology (web GL). The great thing about it is that you don’t need any previous design expertise. Just open your browser, go to tinkercad.com and start creating!
With the release of the import feature, we can’t wait to see all the crazy mash-ups and modifications people will come up with. The only downside for now, is that the STL import is limited to 25 000 triangles. So don’t go crazy just yet.
So how does an imported 3D file look in Tinkercad? Have a look below.
We can’t wait to see what’s coming next…and don’t forget you can still EXPORT your designs to i.materialise for 3D printing.
