Prepare yourself for Saint Patrick’s Day…With our green dye finish!
Our range of finishes is continuously growing and today we’re happy to introduce our green dye finish for polyamide. Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day!
We’re expanding our family of color finishes more and more. On Valentine’s day we introduced pink to you, today we’re adding green to our range. Try it out for free now, until the 3rd of April!
- Dimensions max 200 x 200 x 180 mm
- Pricing: 0,25€ per cm³ on top of the natural white color price + a start up of 1€ per type of model with a maximum of 20€.
Do you want to see the finish yourself? Order some samples! It’s the best way to get a good sense of the materials. You can buy a basic sample kit or seperate samples.
With 16 materials and over 70 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 design.
Opening a bottle has never been so cool!
Can’t find the right (fancy and shiny) bottle opener you’re looking for? Then just design one yourself and 3D print it like Andrew Martin.
Andrew sure knows how to intrigue his invitees. He created an eagle head bottle opener and 3D printed it in naturalpolished bronze. Andrew: “I’m so happy with the bronze material, it actually gleams like gold.”
Andrew was even so happy, he made a little YouTube movie about his design:
Do you want to know more about bronze? Read our last Material Monday or go to the material page.
Do you want your design to be featured on the blog? Send an e-mail to tatiana.dewee@materialise.be or show your design on our forum.
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,
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
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.
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
It’s smooth, it’s soft…it’s polished polyamide! Free finish for a month!
We’re happy to introduce white polished polyamide to take your designs a level higher. To celebrate we’re offering this finish for free until the 21st of March. Read all about it!
It’s a hard knock life, but i.materialise comes to the rescue and softens the edges a little bit…with polished polyamide! It feels smooth in your hands and it looks great since the building layers of the design aren’t that visible any more. Polished polyamide just gives that little extra touch and feel, which brings your design to a whole new level.
Polishing, also referred to as mechanical smoothing, is a special finishing process for polyamide. To achieve a polished finish, your model is put into a tumbler with small stones. While the tumbler vibrates at a high frequency the small stones smooth your model.
Tumbler stones will get your design perfectly polished.
You can clearly see the difference between the unpolished (left) and the polished (right) version.
…and the building layers are
Polyamide: Now available in pink!
Today on Valentine’s Day, we’re introducing something new to our color/finish range of polyamide: pink! That brings us to a total of 15, which is the amount of different options we offer to finish your favorite material.
Polyamide comes in a natural white color out of the 3D printer. But we know some of you like to bring some color into your designs. So, we’ve added pink to our range of dyed colors. Remember, you can now also dye bigger volumes with a bounding box up to 200 mm x 200 mm x 180 mm (instead of 150 x 150 x 150 mm). What’s even more: order a large (we’re talking over 150 x 150 x 150 mm) polyamide design in a color between February 11th and March 10th and get a 10 % discount on your next order! It’s finally time to print that huge piggy bank you’ve always wanted.
Are you eager to see and feel the pink material? Just buy one of our colored sample kits.
With 16 materials and over 70 finishes, i.materialise offers one of the widest material range
Plenty more possibilities in Polyamide!
It’s our second Material Monday and this month it’s all about polyamide. Find out more about dying larger pieces and get a sneak peek at our new color!
POLY…WHAT?
Polyamide is a very popular material and is constructed from very fine, white nylon powder. The technique to build your designs with this material is called ‘ laser sintering‘. The result is a strong, somewhat flexible material that can take small impacts and resist some pressure while being bent.
Pricewise, the material is quite affordable. All designs that fit within a bounding box of 125 cm3 and have a maximum dimension of 200 mm comes at 12,5 euro a piece. Examples of those designs are rings, iPhone cases, dices, earrings etc. If your models are larger, then pricing will mainly be based on the bounding box. Also, the more copies you order, the larger the discount.
Polyamide is typically used for small series of models, complex models, lamp shades, but we’ve also seen people use it for jewelry and accessories.
