The Articulated Cube: A Clever Piece of Engineering Made With SketchUp
Being a professional designer and CAD engineer is awesome and gives you almost boundless possibilities to unleash your creativity. Basically anyone can get creative and design something in 3D. Today, a lot of 3D design applications like SketchUp are free, easy to use and require no prior experience. Need a success story to be inspired?
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Come Visit Us at The World’s Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth: Maker Faire Bay Area 2014
Maker Faire is a festival for everyone that is inventive, creative and resourceful, and a celebration of the maker movement. The 9th annual Bay Area Maker Faire will take place on May 17th and 18th. Of course we won’t let the opportunity pass by to be present, and neither should you. So pack your 3D projects and maker dreams and come meet crafters, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, artists, educators and enthusiasts from all over the world.
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Elise Luttik is exhibiting at Salone del Mobile – Milano, 8th-13th April
Two months ago we introduced Elise Luttik, an industrial designer living in Amsterdam. Elise’s design studio “eli5e” generates many high quality furnishing accessories set to ‘make people smile’, as she defines her projects. Her sketches made it all the way to our 3D printers, which resulted in fantastic projects. And we aren’t the only ones that think so because next week her creations are showcased during the Salone del Mobile exhibition.
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Introducing an Improved Shop Experience
We’re proud to announce the launch of our new and improved shop platform. This launch is just the beginning – we’ll be rolling out new features every 2 weeks so stay tuned for more.
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Great News for our SketchUp Users
SketchUp, the favorite tool of many of our community members just received a major update. The 2014 version is easier to use than ever and comes with some significant improvements. And fear not, our team has worked hard to make sure the new update is fully compatible with our i.materialise website. Drawing in 3D will be a breeze. Some good news for our Mac users: the i.materialise plugin has been improved for you too.
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Looking for the next i.materialise Designer of the Year
Interested in becoming our next Designer of the Year? Place your work under the spotlight by participating in the i.materialise Designer of the Year contest.
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Materialise CEO Fried Vancraen at the EU Innovation Convention: “Let’s use technology to build a better and safer world”
Early last week, Materialise founder and CEO Fried Vancraen was a panelist at the EU Innovation Convention during the session entitled Which Markets? Choose the Future.
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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
It seems winter is finally over and spring is right around the corner. So, in honor of good old Saint Patrick, we’re going completely green. Find out just how you can go green for free this week!
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Here’s the Winning Print of our Slot Car Challenge
A few weeks ago Brian Hamilton finished first in our slot car challenge with his ‘Arthropoda’ design. It almost looks like a prehistoric creature and an aerodynamic supercar had a baby. We’ve now printed it and put it to the test on our racing track.
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How Many Ways Can You Bring an Aardvark to Life?
Meet the Aardvark, a story about persevering with an idea. For sure many of you had various passions when you were kids. Perhaps you even drew pictures of them (back then we were all great artists, weren’t we?).
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