3D Printing
3D printed miniature buildings very popular
Train lovers have model railways, car lovers have Dinky Toys, and from now on architecture lovers have Ittyblox. The Dutch start up is often described as ´Simcity in real life´. Buildings produced in a 1:1000 scale allow one to reproduce entire cities with houses, offices, hotels, blocks, canals, parks, etc. The production process is as…
Lees meerAdobe to resolve stepping problems for 3D printing
In the past Adobe resolved the 2D stepping problem for photo imagers with the raster image processors and software such as Illustrator. The company will now resolve the same problem for 3D printers. The problem arises when layering the filaments during fused deposition modeling (FDM). Adobe has found a way to solve this problem and…
Lees meerNew method makes 3D printing 100 times faster
Endlessly waiting for your 3D print to complete will no longer be necessary. Carbon3D has developed a technique to make 3D printing a 100 times faster. Carbon3D does not print layer by layer. Their Continous Liquid Interface Production technique – CLIP for short – uses oxygen and light to selectively cure the material. The printed object…
Lees meerAmazon wants to 3D print order en route to customer
American webshop Amazon has submitted a patent for what might become a ´mobile factory´: a truck which would print the product with a 3D printer en route to its customers. In other words, you order, the truck leaves for your address and during the trip the product is being printed using a 3D printer. Amazon…
Lees meerHP cooperating with Intel as the silicon architecture for 3D printing
For its Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers HP will cooperate with Intel. The Intel Core i7 processor will not only be the heart of the Jet Fusion printers, but also of the HP Sprout 3D work stations which in combination with the Intel RealSense 3D Camera will become a complete 3D workspace. The cooperation was…
Lees meerEfficient way of printing Christmas trees
Printing a Christmas tree has just become that much more efficient. Scientists have come up with an algorithm which makes it possible to print a 3D Christmas tree without any waste of material or time. A 3D printer prints an object layer by layer by stacking melted layers of plastic. When the shape sticks out,…
Lees meerPrintmeneer supplies 3D printed cookie cutters in various fonts
If you want to send a special and edible text message to a special someone Printmeneer supplies cookie cutters for your favourite dough. If you don´t have a good dough recipe, Printmeneer´s website offers that as well. They also offer other shapes such as teapots and a cloud logo. All shapes are 3D printed. This…
Lees meer3DPB: A Silk Wiki about more than a hundred different 3D printers
There are hundreds of 3D printers for sale, from DYI models for about 200 Euros to production monsters costing tens of thousands of Euros. 3DPB gives an overview of 121 of them, including prices, comparisons of layer thickness, maximum object sizes and other important characteristics. You need a Silk account to be able to view…
Lees meerMake #42: 26 3D printers tested and test files for your own 3D printer
Make, magazine for every DIY enthusiast has dedicated its latest issue to 3D printers. Not the prohibitively expensive production printers, but the more affordable models. A large number of printers were tested by Make and judged on quality and productivity. Would you like to test your own printer? Make has made its test files available…
Lees meerVormVrij: 3D printing with clay
Why not print with clay and make unique ceramic 3D objects. That is what Marieke Wijnakker and Yau van den Heerik – Design Academy Eindhoven alumni – asked themselves. United in VormVrij 3D (FreeForm 3D) they made a large format 3D printer for ceramics. The project shows the unlimited possibilities of 3D printing. Apart from…
Lees meerUmake is a simple way to make complex 3D designs
When you combine the possibilities of Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCad and Doodle you end up with UMake. At least that is what the people behind this innovative software promise us. Looking at their background and experience in making AutoCad applications this certainly seems possible. If you want to see if they can honour their claims, you…
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