3D printing mingles with the past in Belgium’s oldest town
The Gallo-Romeins Museum, one of the most important archaeological museums in Europe, is currently holding a solo exhibition of Nick Ervinck. He is a rising star in the Belgian art world and the talent behind some truly spectacular works of 3D printed art, printed at Materialise.
Last Friday night, I headed to Tongeren with Nick Ervinck’s project managers here at Materialise, and others on the prototyping and manufacturing team, to witness the opening of the exhibition. Although we had witnessed several of his works come off our printers over the years, there was something about seeing them set against archaeological relics that made the jaw-dropping creations more spectacular than ever. Here are some images from the exhibition and if you are in Belgium anytime before the 6th of January 2013, I highly recommend fitting in a visit to the Gallo-Romeins Museum to see The 9th Month yourself.
The exhibition, The 9th Month (De 9de Maand), includes several pieces 3D printed here at Mat
New: Titanium online pricing and textures in 3D Printlab
We’re happy to anounce to you the following updates on our website: our trial period for titanium is over and you’re now able to see your uploaded 3D design with texture ánd color!
From now on we can serve you with exact online prices and details about the designs on our website . The maximum size we offer is 200 x 250 x 400 mm. The minimum wall thickness for your design has to be at least 0,2 millimeter, the minimum detail size 0,1. Titanium can be great for jewelry because you normally can’t have any allergic reaction from it. And although it’s not the cheapest material to work with, it’s definitely the strongest material you can 3D print.
COLOR
The second update is about your uploaded 3D designs. Before, when you uploaded your design, you just saw your 3D model in grey, but those days are over: from now on you can see your design in full color!
Next to that: when you upload a compressed file in the 3D print lab (obj, mtl and images) you can see textures to have a better vie
Featured Friday – Showing your 3D printed designs
Happy friday everyone! We hope you had a nice week, we certainly did. To end the week in beauty: check out the newest designs in our gallery.
To start with we want to show you this Simplicated Lamp, made by Rendy Himawan who made some previous designs for i.materialise. It’s a very simple box form but if you take a closer look you see there is a circuit on it. When the lamp is turned on you can perfectly see all the lines. The whole design is made in white polyamide.
SUPERDOG
The second design is from Ilse Vermeulen, she made this figurine, The Indispensable, out of Multicolor Composite. It looks like a really nice superdog!
HAMSTER
Last but not least: this funny figurine Hamster is developed by Vicky Wong, a Computer Animation student. She made this for her senior thesis project.
Well, that was it for this week. Have a nice weekend!
Share your uploaded 3D design to the world!
Always wanted to show your uploaded 3D design to friends or family? Now you can! Our share function makes it possible for other people to see your uploaded design so you can ask their opinion.
Sometimes, you just need an opinion about your design. You’re not sure about the size, the material and other people may help with that. Now you do these things in one simple click. When you upload your design in our 3D printlab just click on ‘share your model’. You will get a link so you can send it to everyone you want. But be careful: the link only works for thirty days!
Or you want to give other people the possibility to print your design? No problem: click and share! It doesn’t only seem easy: it IS easy. So why don’t you try it yourself?
Keep your creativity going.
For your information: Titanium online pricing is now available!
Take ordinary pictures with your iPhone and turn them into a 3D Model
Autodesk 123D is making 3D printing so much easier in our everyday lives with their new iPhone application. From today on you can create 3D models by taking pictures on your iPhone and uploading it with the app.
It’s always nice to walk around with your iPhone and make pictures of beautiful things you see. You can share it through social media or just show it to your friends. But how cool is it to have the opportunity to actual recreate a design you have seen? Autodesks 123D Catch for iPhone is all about recreating. And the greatest thing about it: it’s completely free!
MODEL
LeeAnn Manon, Autodesk: “For people with limited 3D printing or 3D modeling experience, 123D Catch is a great way to create and print a realistic model. You can create a capture on your iPhone and then open it in the web app (it’s automatically saved in My Corner). Just use the simple model editing and healing tools to finish it up for printing, and then simply click ‘3D Print it’ to send it through the 123
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Another week has passed again and we’re happy to show you these new designs!
We are glad to see how your creative minds always come up with new, fun and cool designs. This week we’d like to show to you a very nice bracelet, designed by Buro Bruno, created in gold plated brass.
PEDAL
Next design is a fun pedal beat, made by Tofty, from the UK. He created a small pedal shaped tritium vial holding bead with large side cut-outs, designed to take two of the 2.5x10mm tritium vials.
FOX
Last but not least, this design (or better: piece of art) is from Ilse Vermeulen, a dutch designer. Her artwork, called van Dyck, is made in Multicolor Composite.
Well, that was Featured Friday for this week. I hope you have a lovely weekend and keep up the good work!
Major Tinkercad update: you can now import 2D/3D designs!
Today, the folks at Tinkercad released one of their coolest features ever: the possibility to import existing 2D or 3D designs. Tinkercad is a free 3D design app that runs in the browser by using the latest web technology (web GL). The great thing about it is that you don’t need any previous design expertise. Just open your browser, go to tinkercad.com and start creating!
With the release of the import feature, we can’t wait to see all the crazy mash-ups and modifications people will come up with. The only downside for now, is that the STL import is limited to 25 000 triangles. So don’t go crazy just yet.
So how does an imported 3D file look in Tinkercad? Have a look below.
We can’t wait to see what’s coming next…and don’t forget you can still EXPORT your designs to i.materialise for 3D printing.
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Another week had passed again and we’re happy to show you these new designs!
The first design we want to show you is a real masterpiece. The basic idea for the project of Serdal Bidav and Nilgün Kuscu was to create a floating concert hall for Istanbul. With this building the designer wants to reflect the diversity of the city by creating three different cityscapes.
Next design is a very cool Heavy Metal watch ‘Black Label Society’: the case, bezel and dial were 3D printed. The material used for the wristwatch is paintable resin which was covered with some metallic paint. It perfectly shows how you can use 3D printing in your everyday life.
Check out this train! This model is based on a version from 1924 made in prime gray by Guido Mandorf.
SCULPTURE
Last, but not least: a very nice looking sculpture for an art gallery. It’s the first sculpture ikatz made through 3D printing. It will be great to see it in full glory!
Looking forward to see more of your designs.
Featured Friday- Showing your 3D printed designs
Another week has passed and we’re happy to show you some beautiful designs again!
The first design we want to show you is a prototype model of an office chair created in Polyamide made by Rendy Himawan from Jakarta, Indonesia. This design gives a better view on shape and proportion so adjustments can be made very easily.
TOWEL TIM
We found this nice looking guy in our gallery, the first official figurine of Towel Tim, created by Julien Chateau. This little fellow is 18 cm tall en 3D printed in Multicolor.
Last but not least: the custom historical hat (British Horse Artillery 1815) in Lego Minifig Scale! The designer loves creating new and interesting hats for this little Legofigurines.
Looking forward to see more of your designs.
PS: don’t forget to post your project on our forum in unbox it. You can win two vouchers of 250 euro with our Facebook/Forum Design Challenge!
Have a nice Weekend!
Wonderboy Guto Requena makes 3D printed chairs with the sounds of the city
“The digital culture changes our relationship with design and the way we build our cities,” Guto Requena said in Freundevonfreunden.com, an online interview magazine. When it comes to designing the Brazilian architect pushes the envelope. He recorded the typical citysounds of São Paulo and let it determinate the design.
As a little child Guto Requena always dreamed about architecture. Then finally, when he started studying architecture he became more and more interested in digitalism and technology. At this moment he is one of the most innovatist architects of Brazil and with his studio Estudio Guto Requena he tries to push the projects he really wants to do.
FUTURE
Requena believes the digital future can make people closer and he tries to experiment with all kinds of design. One of his latest collections is called Nóize, which is inspired by three iconic Brazilian chair designs: Oscar by Sergio Rodrigues, the São Paulo by Carlos Motta and the Giraffe by Lina Bo Bardi, Marc
