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Bookends winners 3D printed
About a month ago, we announced the winners of our bookend design challenge. We loved seeing so many great designs developed in a variety of 3D software packages like ZBrush and Rhino. The winning entries have meanwhile been 3D printed and are ready to be sent out.
(more…)THE ROBOTS ARE BACK
i.materialise recently sponsored the price for the Doga CG robot contest in Japan, by 3D printing the winning design.
Hiro, our Japanese colleague, had the chance to meet the winner, Yuunagi – to give his price and to ask him some questions. You can read his answers below, along with some pictures of his 3d printed robot character.
Yuunagi is a 3d model hobbyist active in Computer graphics since 6 years. He creates amazing renders of robot characters.
Hi Yuunagi, Did you enjoy the contest and the award?
“It was a great challenge, open for everyone to participate, also for beginners. Those challenges are a great chance to sharpen your 3D modeling skills. I will participate in the next one for sure.”
What do you think on your 3D printing model?
“I was surprised and excited to win the challenge. It’s amazing to see how my design came alive as a real model. It’s fun to touch it. I heard 3d printing is used a lot in the industry, but it
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Bookend challenge winners
Hey everyone,
We’ve got the winners of our bookend challenge in. We would like to thank everyone for taking part in the challenge and contributing to the competition, thanks guys!
Without further ado here are the 3 winning entries:
The Book Worm by Mary Cherry
Gotcha by mfleuret
The Lettereater by Moni-Poroni (more…)
Japanese 3D printing challenge
Hello everyone,
Our Japanese office has recently hosted a small 3D printing challenge, where the designers were asked to design a futuristic robot model. The challenge proved to be very exciting and a lot of great designs were submitted to the challenge. We have already 3D printed some of the models and here is the video of one of the entries:
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Free stl viewer helps in making your model 3D print ready
MiniMagics can help you in making your model 3D print ready when you have a model in STL format.
A summary of the features of MiniMagics is available at the download site.
But especially 1 feature can allow you to save precious time.
A model has to be ”watertight” before we can 3D print it.
Watertight means that all edges of the triangles of which your model consists of need to have a mutual edge with another triangle.
When the model is not watertight, our i.materialise service might not be showing a price online.
Our server tries to ”fix” the uploaded model and make it watertight automatically but when the gaps between 2 edges of triangles is too big, the fixing process might fill up the hole in a way that it effects the geometry of the model too much. So we limit the fixing within the boundaries that it is safe to fix.
Why don’t we show prices for models that are not watertight ?
Models with bad edges or holes will produce incorrect price parameters and hence inco
The mummy of King Tut in 3D printing
This is something I want to share with you because it fascinates me. Never dreamt I would be able to see the real face of pharaoh Tutankhamun ( King Tut). Hi tech scanning and 3d printing technology (stereolithography) made this possible. See how we brought him to live or read more information here.
The ‘WORLD OF HOUSES’ Challenge Winners
Hi all,
Last week, we have closed our World of Houses challenge for SketchUp users.
First of all, congratulations to all participants – the overall quality of your designs was very high and you made great use of our plugin.
Our jury members (Aidan Chopra, Mike Lucey and Fried Vancraen) found it very hard to make a selection :,,).
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Join our bookend design challenge
Hey everyone,
I am happy to announce our new challenge for everyone who enjoys design. We have already conducted a similar challenge with Blender community and are now thrilled to announce a bookend challenge hosted on our website. In this challenge we are asking you to design your own bookend. (more…)
