Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Thank God it’s Friday. Check out our new gallery entries!
The first design is made by DAMN, two ladies who make damn good designs. This is a diamond shape accessory you can wear with your scarf. The design is printed in Stainless Steel gold plated and polished.
ORGANIC
3D Materialize Ltd made a nice pendant ‘Organic Mystery’ in brass.
Christopher Ouellette made a pendant, called ‘Deathly Hallow’. The name refers to the deathly hallow symbol that’s incorporated into the pyramid shaped pendant. He printed his design in Brass gold plated.
The Nokia Lumia 820 story continues: the first functional print is born!
After all the nonfunctional prints, it’s now time for our good news show: the first functional Nokia Lumia 820 shell is alive and kicking!
After day one and two of the tests, it was very clear to everyone: The Nokia file needs engineering to work correctly. So our engineering team was sweating off a lot the past few days, but now it’s official: i.materialise can release the first 3D printable ánd functional Nokia Lumia 820 shell!
To be correct: we can actually show you two shells in different materials (resin and polyamide) that passed our test.
Dries, one of the engineers, can tell you exactly how they prepared their work: “We used 3-matic software to perform the needed design operations on the STL file, such as cutting the shell in two parts and thicken the outer shell (from 0.9 to 2 mm). Then we changed the tolerance on the buttons of our resin design because we needed more space between them. On the picture you can see that the buttons are loose, printed in transparant
Will it print? Taking the Nokia Lumia 820 shell tests a level higher
Yesterday we did a few tests to print the Nokia Lumia 820 shell on our printers (in ABS, resin and polyamide). Today we’re comparing the other materials. Check it out and stay tuned to find out our next steps!
As we found out yesterday there are big errors when it comes to the functionality of the 3D printed Nokia shell files: the buttons don’t function as they should, the wireless charging function disappeared and you need to be careful with your material choice.
Now take a look at our next tests and see what came out of our printers today:
1. Transparent resin: it looks smooth, it feels nice in your hand and gives the phone a more sophisticated look. If we had to give an award for the best looking shell, this would be the winner. But do the buttons work? Unfortunately.
2. Prime gray: the shell fits, but again: no functioning buttons!
3. High detailed resin: to make the file printable, the engineer made the wall of the design thicker by adding an extra millimeter. Ano
Myth buster: printing a Nokia Lumia 820 cover is a piece of cake
It looks like 3D printing is getting even more mainstream with the just launched rear shell for your Nokia Lumia 820. Easy to download, but what about printability?
The Nokia Lumia 820 has a clip-on interchangeable back which can be downloaded on the developer site. It can then be 3D printed on your printer or by a service such as ours. We’re happy that such a major player in the world in mobility embraces 3D printing and customization. They’re the first manufacturer to do so. But the problem is: it looks very simple and cool to 3D print, but knowing that it takes a lot of research and test prints to have a functional phone cover or shell (like we did to make sure the KEES covers fit), we’re taking this one to the test on several printers!
What do we need? A Nokia Lumia 820 of course! We jumped into our snow boots to buy one and get it to our office. First thing we did was trying to get the cover of. Once we got the back removed there were two things that caught our attention.
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
The weekend is coming closer, but first: let us show you our newest 3D printed entries. Happy Friday everyone!
SOHEEB KHAN made this lovely action figure of one of his character, 3D printed in polyamide. “i.materialise has done a fantastic job with the details and the result is beyond my expectation.”
British designer Caroline Saunders made a contemporary and abstract pendant for a necklace. She printed ‘Bird tree’ in silver with a high gloss finish.
The last design we want to show you is ‘Bijoux sur mesure‘ who prints -as the name says- customized jewelry. This ‘lightning’ ring is printed in silver with a high gloss finish.
Have an awesome weekend!
Do you want to show your design to the world? You should! find out how on our website.
Tutorial Thursday: attend events to develop your brand
A great way to meet fellow designers, talk about your products and market yourself is to attend events. Check out how they can play a role in your life and which events you can attend this year as a 3D printing designer. (more…)
Join us at our booth at RapidPro and win one of our 3D printed lamps!
Next month i.materialise will be present at RapidPro in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. Come and check us out at our booth or join one of our free lectures!
The Conference Centre Koningshof in Veldhoven is getting prepared for Rapid Pro 2013. Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th of February you’re all very welcome at this event to have a chat and learn more about our 3D printing service. Go to the RapidPro website to subscribe. Entrance is free!
Check out our booth (number 74) to see the widest range of materials, including metals and finishes. We will offer you a selection of commercial products, created by our community, such as Dutch jewelry designer Els Cuvelier and German designer monomer.
Next to that you will see finished products we printed for one of our business partners Twikit. Don’t hesitate to bring your own ideas and talk about possible partnerships.
LECTURES:
i.materialise will host two presentations so you can’t miss us.
- Tuesday 26th of Februari: 11.45-12.10
Check out the winners of the Valentine Challenge
We had so many entries for the Valentine Challenge that it was hard to choose a winner. But: now all the votes are counted there are clearly two winners!
Roberto Trentin got the most votes for his high detailed stainless steel design called ‘Secret message ring’.
Isaie Bloch made a nice design ‘Diamonds are forever’ (where a lot of our feminine collegues fell for) in silver.
We want to congratulate both candidates with their designs. We can’t wait to see the designs coming out of our printers!
Introducing: Material Monday!
This year we will feature, every second Monday of the month, one of our materials. We will inform you with the latest updates, design possibilities and of course a lot of inspiration. But first: an overview!
With 16 materials and more than 60 finishes, i.materialise offers one of the widest material ranges in the world to 3D print in. We’re always making sure our designers get the best quality offer and with our design guides on the material pages we lead you to the finish of your item.
The last material we introduced was high detailed stainless steel, on trial, as you can clearly see in our periodic table of materials which showcases all our materials. Do you -firstly- want to see and feel the materials, buy one of our basic sample kits (with a voucher of 25 euro/ 40 dollar) or some loose samples.
OFFER
Now, let’s take a closer look at our offer:
Use: jewelry, lamps, fashion, prototype models
Colors: white, black, red, blue, spray painted black and spray painted whit
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s the end of the week so that means it’s time for our weekly Featured Friday!
Because we shortened the printing time of polyamide this month, we want to inspire you with some new polyamide models. 3D Materialize Ltd is ready to conquer the world with his 3D printed Samsung Galaxy covers. This one is printed in natural white polyamide.
Community member david made a selection of sculptures based on hand gestures. Below, you can see the well-known victory hand gesture printed in polyamide (of course).
The last design is a 3D printed logo, designed by Erik.
Do you want your design to be featured on the blog? Put them in the gallery or contact me via e-mail: tatiana.dewee@i.materialise.be
