3D Printing Design Tips from Professional Designers
Designing for 3D printing is not always an easy task. While creativity has no limits when you’ve mastered the right 3D design software, optimizing 3D designs for 3D printing can be tricky for beginners.
That’s why we wanted to offer you a compilation of the best design tips for 3D printing given by those who know it well: 3D professional designers. How does their 3D design process look like? Which 3D printing software do they use? Which tips would they give to new 3D designers? Read on to discover their thoughts!
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Looking for 3D Printing Inspiration. What Do You Think?
2018 is here and we wanted to wish you a Happy New Year!
We also have a little favour to ask you.
3D printing is an ever-growing subject and it can be approached from many different angles. We are coming up with new ideas for our blog in 2018 and we would like to know your opinion on the topics we should cover, as well as the kind of content you enjoy reading about the most.
At the end of the day, you are the reason why we write and it’s important for us to know why you read our stories.
To make things easier we prepared a little survey. It will take just 50 seconds (we promise, we’ve timed it!).
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Happy Holidays!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year filled with creative projects. We would like to thank our community for a 2017 filled with great 3D printing designs and amazing stories. Your trust is the real source of our inspiration!
It has been an exciting year for i.materialise and we can’t wait to see what the next year has prepared for us and for you.
Enjoy your holidays and keep on 3D printing! (more…)
The Best 3D-Printed Jewelry Stories of the Year
We couldn’t finish looking back at 2017 without a special mention of some of our favorite 3D-printed jewelry designer stories. There are so many 3D jewelry artists working with us, who continuously show how broad the possibilities of materials and styles are when working with 3D printing! This year we featured some of them on our blog.
In case you missed the interviews, discover our favorite jewelry designer stories of 2017 here!
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Our Favorite 3D Printing Stories of the Year
We are always impressed by the talent of our community and in 2017 you haven’t disappointed us! We wanted to collect some of the 3D printing designs and stories that captivated us this year and we didn’t know where to start. We’re continuously amazed by how skilled and inspiring our users are.
Read more to discover our favorite 3D printing stories of 2017!
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A Year of 3D Printing News
The end of the year is approaching fast and this is the perfect time to remember the past year. 2017 has been full of exciting improvements and updates for i.materialise. In case you missed something, join us in looking back at the news this year brought to i.materialise: new finishes, colors, features – and a brand new technology!
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Top 5 Mammoth Resin Designs
Resin is one of our most appreciated materials for 3D printing. From the different options of resin available on i.materialise, there is one that stands out for its size: 3D printing in Mammoth Resin. This 3D printing material is the best option for those looking for big-scale prints with great surface quality.
Thanks to these qualities, Mammoth resin is the favorite material of many designers and artists. We have put together a compilation of the best Mammoth Resin 3D designs of all time and the results are impressive. Get ready to be amazed!
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5 Ways to Celebrate 3D Printing Day
3D Printing Day is a recent but awesome celebration. At least for us 3D printing enthusiasts! The celebration is on the 3rd of December – or 3D, get it? – and it’s essentially a day meant to raise awareness about 3D printing technologies, as well as having lots of fun with it.
For us, every day is 3D Printing Day, but we will give you some suggestions on how to make the most of 3D Printing on this day. (more…)
Blueberries: 3D-Printed Jewelry that goes to Infinity and Beyond
When designer Zbyněk Krulich and jewelry maker Markéta Richterová met in 2012 during the blueberry season, their jewelry brand, Blueberries, was born. That very same year they were awarded the Czech Grand Design Award for the best jewelry of the year.
Since then, this 3D-printed luxury jewelry brand based in Prague hasn’t stopped creating beautiful jewelry collections, which combine abstract geometry and natural patterns.
In 2017, they launched their new collection, Infinity, and we wanted to know all about it, as well as the source of their inspiration and their passion for 3D printing.
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3D Printing with the Windows Mixed Reality Viewer
Last month, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update arrived for many creative users, with improvements on the existing features and an exciting addition: the Windows Mixed Reality Viewer. With this new app, it’s possible to put your 3D creations and characters in a real environment to see how they merge.
When we heard about the new Mixed Reality Viewer we got very intrigued and we couldn’t wait to try it for ourselves. (more…)
