Tutorial Summer: from idea to kick ass design
After reading how to choose a material for your 3D printing design you’re now ready to bring your design to life. Bert, our Product Designer, will lead you to the right direction! (more…)
Meet the designer: Michael Mueller
‘Brass’ could be the middle name of this German designer -since he loves the material so much and can’t stop doing experiments with it. But let’s just call him Michael or Pookas, his designer name. (more…)
3D Printing Chess Pieces & Chess Sets
Jonny Anthony loves chess. And what’s cooler than customizing and 3D printing your own chess set? Read on to learn how to create your own 3D printed chess pieces and take a look at Jonny’s stunning result: a 3D printed chess set in steel! (more…)
Raspberry Pi, Autodesk 123D and i.materialise challenge you to make an extra-ordinary Raspberry Pi case!
Do you remember the Bioscope? It’s one of the many examples where people 3D printed a case for their Raspberry Pi . Now the Raspberry Pi foundation, Autodesk 123D and i.materialise challenge you to do the same.
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Tutorial Summer: the first steps of your 3D print
Are you ready for our Tutorial Summer? Bert, our Product Designer, will kick off the first session and tell you all about the first steps of 3D printing your design.
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Digital Forming was present at the i.materialise meetup
Riccardo Bovo, from UK based software company Digital Forming, gave a presentation at our Meetup last Friday. Informing our community about the possibilities of their software.
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The Neo-Artist: Using 3D printing to invent & make art
While we were at the Maker Faire, we had a contest to give away a voucher for our services. Imagine our surprise when it turns out one of the winners is writing a book about teaching artists and makers how to use technology like 3D printing to start a business!
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Printcraft: 3D Printing in Minecraft!
It is now possible to 3D print your favorite designes from Minecraft via i.materialise’s online 3D printing service. Let’s take a look at how this works & feels like. We met up with Paul Harter, the mind behind Printcraft.
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Join the Novedge hangout: The Future of Jewelry Design and 3D Printing
Novedge, the leading online software store for design professionals, will be hosting a Google Hangout about the future of jewelry designs and 3D printing.
Tatiana, our Community Managery, will be one of the speakers at the Hangout together with:
- Maia Merav Holtzman, jewelry designer and Rhino expert: She runs a series of intensive Rhinoceros 3D workshops at Design Rhino – Robert McNeel & Associates authorized training center. She also works in the luxury goods industry as a freelance modeler. She holds a degree in jewelry making and design from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
- Pedro Loureiro is TDM Solutions’ training manager, jeweler and RhinoGold expert. Pedro graduated in Cindor, Jewelry School in Oporto, Portugal, in 2005 and is a 10-year CAD user.
When? May 8th, 8:00 PM GMT +1
Feel free to join us!
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
