Get your groove on with Bronze and Stainless Steel
It’s time for a new Material Monday. This month: Check out the new design guides of bronze and stainless steel!
Stainless steel is one of the cheapest material of our steel family. It’s perfect to give your design extra character. The material looks a little pitted and robust and is often used for scale models, jewelry (but be aware of skin irritation) and decorative models.
COMPETITIVE PRICING
For models up to 5 cm³ volume you pay $35.00 for non gold plated colors and $41.00 for gold plated colors. For every extra cm³ above 5 cm3 -till 40 cm³- you pay $8.00 extra. For every extra cm³ above 40cm³ you pay $7.5 extra. For compact models we have a discount: The more material you have within the imaginary box around your model, the bigger your discount becomes for the same model volume. Check out the material page for more information.
Do you need more details? Then high detailed stainless steel could be perfect for you. It’s got the strenght of titanium, but the pricing is less ex
Accessory Challenge- Be inspired by birds
Did you ever dream of an international platform to show off your design skills? Then prepare for our next challenge! i.materialise, in cooperation with Materialise Malaysia, challenges you to make the most unique, breath taking 3D printed accessory inspired by birds.
Do you want to be the star of a fashion show? Then we have great news! On the 14th of June, Materialise organizes an international 3D design fashion show in Malaysia. As a participant your creation can earn a spot at this event! The event will be attended by national and international media houses.
This is the perfect opportunity for you to try out and explore the 3D printing technology and experiment with design.
THE CHALLENGE
For this competition, your challenge is to use 3D printing to create a fashion/lifestyle accessory around the theme of “birds” (Yes, birds who have the freedom to soar high into the clear blue skies!). This accessory can be anything: jewelry (such as bracelets, rings, necklaces, …), belts,
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D prints
Happy Friday everyone! Check out our latest gallery entries.
Paul Marx customized the bust of Richelieu with a 3D scan of his fathers face. He created the design in natural white polyamide.
This beautiful vase is 3D printed in ceramics by Printopi. The design is inspired by Gustav Adamis in the early 1980s and printed in ocean turquoise.
We love 3D printing because it creates a perfect environment for makers, just like Jan Dewever. He created cufflinks for his son and personalized it by adding the letters of his name. Dewever: “Since this was my first 3D printing experiment I printed them in polyamide with a blue dye finish. For me the test was so succesful that I will also have them printed in high detailed stainless steel for sure.
Don’t forget to put you’re own design in the gallery, maybe you will be the next one featured on the blog?
Or do you have a story you want to share related to your 3D print? contact tatiana.dewee@materialise.be
Meet the (train) designer: Ed de Bruijn
There are so many beautiful scaled train and tram models in our gallery that we couldn’t wait any longer to put them on the blog. Meet one of the specialists: Ed de Bruijn.
Where did you grow up?
« I grew up near and in Haarlem, the Netherlands. I had a relaxed childhood being the youngest of 5 children. In 1986 I met my wife and we got married in 1994. In 1999 we moved to Bussum, where we still live. We have two kids, Ewout (16) and Rozemarijn (12).»
What do you do in your everyday life?
« I used to be an Interim Manager, but unfortunately the crisis hit hard so I tried to find a new way of living. I’ve been building train models for many years and people were always very enthusiastic about my design skills. They asked me so many times to build them a model too, but there was a big problem: I used to build in metal (brass) and the number of hours to get the result was too big. The price of the model would become enormous so luckily I heard about 3D printing! Now I can order th
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Roberto Trentin gather the most votes in the last Valentine’s challenge. His ‘hearts embraced’ ring was printed in high detailed stainless steel. Roberto: “This ring represents the embrace of two hearts with a hidden message, a declaration of love in Italian: “ti amo”, immersed in the decoration as a sort of secret statement.”
‘Diamonds are Forever’ is an eclectic mix of multiple abstract gems and a classical solitaire, confined in silver mineral formations. A beautiful ring in high gloss silver by Isaie Bloch, the second winner of the Valentine’s challenge.
And last but not least, Pinar Timur printed a case and a case back of a watch in stainless steel and the bezel in titanium. The watch has a automatic winding Swiss movement, is waterproof, and has a functioning rotating bezel. The dial was made by acid etching and painted with glow in the dark luminous
Intellectual Property and 3D printing
It’s great and exciting to see so many ideas coming alive at i.materialise and to notice more and more people find their way to our online service. To help people in the design process, we want to highlight the issue of Intellectual Property.
Intellectual Property?
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are granted. The principal categories of IP are patents, trademarks, and copyrights. With respect to 3D printing, there are many interesting and unsettled questions about how current IP laws will be applied to this developing technology.
i.materialise strives to respect the IP rights of all third parties, like you. This is still new territory for everyone and because many of the most interesting legal questions have yet to be answered, we want to caution designers to think about IP when creating and uploading new designs.
We wish you a good time designing, creating and amazing us (like you do every day).
Thanks for passing by the i.materialise booth at Rapid Pro
We saw hundreds of curious faces passing by our booth at Rapid Pro (the annual 3D printing and in rapid prototyping event in the netherlands) and had so many interesting and inspiring conversations.
Heaps of people came to our lectures and were happy with the 10 procent discount cards we handed out. People are still amazed by the possibilaties of 3D printing. From small figurines, iPhone covers and jewelry to the sculptures of Eric van Straaten, 3D printed shoes and lamps. People make, create and design their wildest dreams and we’re happy to showcase those pieces at events.
monomer starts 3D printed earring collection
The German based design brand monomer just started to 3D print their own earring collection in metal.
First they launched their metal ring collection, now it’s time to introduce to you to their matching earrings. They were printed in silver and (gold plated) brass, but any material is possible, really. They can even add a Swarovski stone in the middle, if people ask for it.
Meiko Hecker, monomer: ” The earrings complete our collection. If you take a good look, you can see each designs has two names: all the names are from Greek mythology. The first name stands for the volume and size of the design, the second refers to the surface and the structure. So if you want to match both earrings and ring, you just have to look at the second name.”
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time to send our new 3D printed entries into the world. Enjoy!
Designer Gavin Galligan made a brooch consisting of a silver (high gloss) pin and a natural white polyamide part. He made a re-interpretation of the Tara Brooch, a Celtic brooch that’s considered as one of the most inventive one of all the Irish brooches. Galligan: “This interpretation takes its place in current history using modern processes, making it unique of its kind. Each brooch is constructed from your choice of polyamide with a polished silver pin to securely fasten the brooch to your clothing.”
Michael Mueller made another great creation in brass called ‘Gready Fish Pendant‘. He removed the gold layer so it looks more rough.
Don’t hesitate to put your own designs in the gallery to be featured on the blog.
Fixperts: Fixing a sliding window with SketchUp
French journalist Gilbert Kallenborn had a big problem when the lock of his sliding window didn’t function any more. Perfect for a DIY 3D printing project!
Gilberts window dated from the seventies and he was looking for a solution for months. He couldn’t find any spare parts so he asked smithlocks, friends and family, but no one could help him and it would cost 3000 euro to buy a new window. Gilbert Kallenborn: “I heard a lot about additive manufacturing or 3D printing, so I wanted to give it a try. I wrote down all the measurements of the old part and after some research, SketchUp (which you can find in the i.materialise creation corner) seemed the right program to start with.
They have really good tutorial videos and after just 20 minutes I already mastered the basics.”
Gilbert chose i.materialise to 3D print his file: “I checked the prices and, according to me, you are the cheapest to 3D print in stainless steel. I uploaded the file and ordered it through the 3D pr
