We ♥ Autodesk’s 3D printing app Charmr!
Recently, Autodesk 123D has come up with a brand new tool that lets you personalize one-of-a-kind jewelry with your own photo: Project Charmr! After announcing this exciting news, we had to give it a try. Check it out to see the results!
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Kipling Enters the World of 3D Printing: No Monkey Business
Ever since they started in 1987, Belgian bags and accessories brand Kipling has given its monkey mascot a prominent role. No one can say ‘Kipling bag’ without referring to the iconic monkey key chains. For their latest collection ‘Monkey Madness’, Kipling and Materialise took it one step further. Based on the Monkey Madness collection, the “City Jungle Shopper” is a co-creation between Kipling and Materialise to showcase Kipling’s trademark monkey in the world’s first fully-flexible 3D Printing material TPU 92A-1.
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Welcome to “3D Printing World”!
In Iidabashi, Tokyo you will find the Printing Museum, Tokyo, a museum that is completely dedicated to printing and the role that it played in our world’s development. Starting with the birth of the craft to the current high tech 3D printing technology. No wonder it is a place we love! So we didn’t have to think twice when they asked us if we wanted to participate in an exhibition around 3D printing.
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Materialise CEO Fried Vancraen at the EU Innovation Convention: “Let’s use technology to build a better and safer world”
Early last week, Materialise founder and CEO Fried Vancraen was a panelist at the EU Innovation Convention during the session entitled Which Markets? Choose the Future.
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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
It seems winter is finally over and spring is right around the corner. So, in honor of good old Saint Patrick, we’re going completely green. Find out just how you can go green for free this week!
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Here’s the Winning Print of our Slot Car Challenge
A few weeks ago Brian Hamilton finished first in our slot car challenge with his ‘Arthropoda’ design. It almost looks like a prehistoric creature and an aerodynamic supercar had a baby. We’ve now printed it and put it to the test on our racing track.
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Hilko Guitars: Traditional Craftsmanship Meets 3D Printing
Are you passionate about guitars? Would you like to have one that is unique in the world, fully customized according to your own desires? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Hilko Guitars individually handcrafts the guitar of your wildest dreams and mixes it up with 3D printing.
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3D Printing and Iris van Herpen’s Biopiracy Fashion Show in Paris
Everything about Iris van Herpen’s Biopiracy Fashion Show in Paris was impressive, the setting, the music, the shrink wrapped models, and of course, the 3D printed, flexible dress!
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123D Design Tutorial: How to use Autodesk 123D Design for 3D Printing
Update: Autodesk has discontinued this app. It is no longer available for download.
In this Autodesk 123D Design tutorial you will learn the basics of this great 3D modeling software. You’ll learn how to come up with an idea, how to turn your idea into a 3D model, and how to turn this 3D model into 3D printed reality. Let’s get started with this video tutorial by Ben Heck. (more…)
How Many Ways Can You Bring an Aardvark to Life?
Meet the Aardvark, a story about persevering with an idea. For sure many of you had various passions when you were kids. Perhaps you even drew pictures of them (back then we were all great artists, weren’t we?).
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