Join Our Next 3D Printing Meetup for Jewelry Designers on June 17th!
3D printing brings your virtual jewelry designs to real life. Our 3D printing meetup for jewelry designers will give you the inspiration and technical know-how that is needed to turn your projects into 3D printed reality.
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Enhancing The World’s Most Bad-Ass Mowers with 3D Printing
You’ve probably never seen lawn mowers anything like this. While for most of us lawn mowers just need to make sure that our backyard doesn’t turn into a jungle, municipalities, plants and national parks need remote-controlled mowers with extreme power to overcome obstacles and slopes, which also don’t cause erosion. And where there is a tailored need for solutions, 3D printing fits the bill perfectly.
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We’re Working with Microsoft to Offer You a Cloud-Based 3D Printing Solution
At i.materialise and our mother company Materialise, our mission is all about making high-quality 3D printing closer and more accessible for everybody. We’re excited to be working with Microsoft to achieve this goal together. Thanks to our joint efforts, users of Microsoft 3D Builder and all other Windows 3D Printing Platform apps will be able to directly order professional, high-quality prints of their models, in 20 different materials and over 100 possible color and finish combinations, through i.materialise.
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SUPERLORA: A 3D Printed Jewelry Brand at the Intersection of Art and Science
Having initially studied physics and only later turned to the world of jewelry and fashion design, Ariadne Kapelioti calls herself a “scientist-gone-artist.” According to Ariadne, art and science actually share surprising similarities, however much they might seem like polar opposites in popular imagination. That’s why she instantly fell in love with 3D printing when she first discovered it; she knew that it would be the perfect tool to express her ideas and emotions in a scientific way.
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3D Printing Jewelry: Our Top 10 Jewelry 3D Prints
3D printing is becoming an essential tool for many jewelry designers. It is well-adapted for jewelry production, as it is a technology that allows great freedom of design and the large-scale production of individualized models. That’s why we keep receiving more orders for 3D printed jewelry in bronze, brass, Sterling Silver, or even 14k/18k gold and steel! Reason enough for us to take a look at some of the best designs we’ve printed lately.
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Announcing the Top 3 Winning Designs of the SketchUp 3D Printing Challenge
A few weeks ago, we invited SketchUp users from all over the world to participate in our ‘SketchUp 3D Printed Jewelry Challenge’ and submit their unique jewelry designs. All participants stood a chance of receiving their 3D model printed out in real Sterling Silver, a 100 EUR/110 USD i.materialise voucher, as well as a SketchUp Pro license.
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Looking to the Future: Top 5 3D Printing Trends to Watch
It seems like every week new 3D printers, 3D modeling apps and materials are getting announced. We are drowning in an information overflow about the newest model or filament on the market – and of course, everyone has a different opinion about which trend will dominate the 3D printing market in 2016 and beyond. On crowd-funding platforms like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo more than 50 different 3D printing projects are currently being launched.
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Qubicle 3.0 Review and Tutorial: 3D Printing With a Voxel Editor
Qubicle 3.0 is a voxel editor that enables you to easily create 3D models with a unique blocky style. The software was just launched on steam and comes with a 3D printing function. So if 3D modeling & 3D printing in voxel style is your thing, this software review is for you!
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3D Prints for the Big Audience: Taking a Look at the Latest 3D Printing Exhibitions in NY, Paris and Madrid
It doesn’t matter if you’re already a 3D printing expert or if you’ve only heard rumors about the way this new technology is currently changing the way we design and produce objects: 3D printing is en vogue and 3D printing exhibitions are currently taking over museums by storm.
Three promising exhibitions in New York, Paris and Madrid have just opened their doors – and expect more than 100,000 monthly visitors. So we took a look at what these visitors could expect and created a short collection of must-see 3D prints!
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