Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
There are so many new gallery entries that it was hard to choose just a few. Here are our picks:
Barney, a final year product design student from Brunel University in London, made an interesting project: “As part of a group project, we had to design products for an existing brand: we chose Moleskine. I ended up designing a conceptual handheld device for 3D artists allowing them to capture a digital library of textures and 3D objects on the go.”
“It was printed in stainless steel; I’m really pleased with the unique texture of the print.”
Dutch designer Maaike van der Horncreated this ‘Bracelet Constructionist Narrow’: “This is the narrow, more subtle version of the Constructionist bracelet. It was inspired by modern architecture and its use of complex repetitive geometrical structures. I am fascinated by how these structures can behave to create buildings and objects that look seemingly organic and unique, buildings that change their appearance depending on the angle you l
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! We’ve got so many great new entries in our gallery: here are the picks of this week!
David Zip made a scaled version of a Gas Plant: “This 1920’s Gas Plant was scanned with a Faro Focus3D laser scanner from 17 positions inside and outside the shed. That captured some of the structural elements and avoided holes in the mesh. The registered point cloud was converted to an STL mesh using the Thinkbox Frost in 3DS Max.”
David 3D printed his design in polyamide.
Will du Toit had fun making this robot -with too many guns. He 3D printed it on prime gray.
This Michael jackson statuette is designed by Anas rafiq: “This is him doing his famous and extravagant move that defies gravity; the lean of the smooth criminal.” It’s 3D printed in brass gold plated and polished.
Have a great weekend and don’t forget: we’ll be at Make Munich!
‘A Design Award 3D printed by i.materialise
We’re happy to announce that we 3D printed one of the A’ Design Awards, the annual juried design competition that honors the best designers worldwide! The design comes from OMC Studios Italy. Check out the pictures:
‘A Design Award by OMC Design Studios Italy.
The award is 3D printed in nice red transparent resin.
The winners will be announced publicly on Monday the 15th of April.
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs!
Happy Friday everyone! Check out our gallery picks!
‘Ultimate love’, the mother and child ring, designed by Mark Heuvelman in sandblasted silver. Heuvelman: “It represents a mother’s ultimate love for her child. This piece was inspired by all the mothers out there and is a perfect gift to show her gratitude.”
Daniel Chapelle created a very cute animal for his desk. He 3D printed it in ocean turquoise ceramics.
Designer Victoria Collins designed a sweet 20 mm stainless steel (old silver), woodlouse pendant:
Don’t forget to put your own designs in the gallery!
Introducing the new 3D print lab
We’ve just released a new and improved version of our 3D print lab. Let’s take a look at some of the new things we introduced.
We haven’t changed the main idea of how the 3D print lab works. With no login required, you still upload a 3D file of your design for which you’ll see an instant price. Then you choose a material, a color/finish, rescale the model if necessary and order as many copies as you want. Knowing there is always room for improvement, we have gathered your feedback from the past months to make your overall ‘upload and order’ experience even better.
WHAT’S NEW?
So what did we change to improve?
After successfully uploading your design, prices for all materials are calculated at once. In the old 3D print lab you’d only see a price for polyamide, the default material. Now, you’ll see different prices for different materials.
A better distinction of color/finish options.
Displayed discounted prices. For some materials, quantity discounts appl
Check out our 3D printed fashion items at the Fashion Space Gallery in London!
3D printing is entering the fashion world more and more. Take a look at the exposition ‘Layer by Layer‘ in the Fashion Space Gallery in London to see for yourself.
Who hasn’t seen the beautiful 3D printed dresses designed by Iris van Herpen? For a few years now 3D printing is pushing (fashion) designers to think out of the box and search their own way in this digitalized world.
The exposition ‘Layer by layer’ wants to give a glimpse of this ‘renewed’ fashion world. Discover 3d printed eyewear, jewellery and shoes by both national and international designers. Take a closer look at some Materialise and i.materialise prints: the Melonia shoe, designed by fashion designer Naim Josefi and industrial designer Souzan Yusouf will be showcased in three different colors: black, pink and green.
The Biomimicry Shoe, designed by Marieka Ratsma in collaboration with Kostika Spaho, is a must see: this shoe, with intricate detals and elaborated surfaces could not have been fabricate
First 3d printing gallery in Amsterdam
Amsterdam is getting ready for the first 3D printing exposition ever. The initiative comes from a bunch of creative entrepreneurs with a passion for 3D printing.
Do you want to find out more about the mystic world of 3D printing? Then don’t miss this exposition in Amsterdam. From the 6th of April until the 2nd of June you can enjoy the exposition ‘XYZ Shaping Free Dimensions’ which will showcase designs from i.materialise community members Ilse Vermeulen and Eric van Straaten among others like 3D printing artist Nick Ervinck who 3D printed his collection at Materialise and Joshua Harker, famous from his Kickstarter project. With this project Ground3D wants to introduce everyone in the 3D printing Maker movement.
Our nice colleagues from .MGX added designs from the exclusive .MGX collection to show to the public, so get ready to discover high level 3D printed interior creations from top designers Xander Lust, Jiri Evenhuis, Janne Kyttanen, Bathsheba Grossman, Patrick Jo
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
It’s our favorite day of the week again: Friday! Check out our latest gallery entries.
Chris Peters designed a custom wedding band in titanium:
Matthias Flück made a copy of Sydney’s famous Harbour Bridge in multicolor (scale 1:2500) and is currently working on a copy of the Opera House.
The last design is also a ring. This one is created in silver by Edouard Gautier and inspired by the -very cool- street artist ArtofPopof.
Don’t forget to put your designs in the gallery for Mother’s Day. Enjoy your weekend!
Featured Friday: Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy Friday everyone! Watch our newest gallery entries.
James William Kincaid III designed this cool belt buckle in gold plated brass:
The second design is created by Visa Jaamuru in natural white polyamide. It’s a phone stand for the Nokia Lumia 920: “I think it’s a stylish design coupled with added functionality. The phone can sit nicely in both portrait and landscape orientations. In portrait orientation the sound from the phone speakers is amplified by built in design. That makes it perfect for skyping, watching videos or simply browsing the internet on your Nokia Lumia 920.”
marco ferrarin has got something with spaghetti. He designed these nice earrings for real pasta lovers and 3D printed it in gold plated brass.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Goodbye Tinkercad. 3DTin anyone?
It’s so sad to hear Tinkercad will disappear. But luckily it’s not the only modeler tool that works in a browser. Jayesh Salvi, founder and developer of 3DTin has ensured i.materialise the continuation of his software platform.
We haven’t heard from 3DTin in a while, but this web based CAD program is, like Tinkercad, also an app that lets you save and share the designs you make. If you export your file you can print it through the i.materialise service.
Some people say its user interface is more complex, but Jayesh Salvi is working on that: “Over 3 years we have built a simple 3D modeling workflow in 3DTin. A lot of users who find traditional 3D modeling tools too daunting, use 3DTin to quickly put together their ideas. We have built a well thought interface for this crowd. At one point we reached a feature-complete state for 3DTin. It became clear that adding more functionality to the existing tool without careful thought is going to spoil it for our existing user-base. So
