Say you’re a company that develops CAD software for 3D printing and a new printer comes out – we’ll call it the Connex3 – that prints with a wide gamut of colours. What would you do? Well,…
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USC Professor 3D Prints Multi-Material Objects Faster
For 3D printing to reach its true potential, there are a number of hurdles yet to be fully overcome, including the ability to cohesively — and cost-effectively — 3D print multi-material objects. The l…
Ceramic 3D Printed Peddler Set-Up Pays Proper Tribute to Perfumes
You might be bored with the countless[1] celebrity perfumes on the market. But it is the scents, not the popstars, that should be celebrated! Perfumes and colognes deserve more than slapping a singer…
Verifying Things for 3D Printing
MakerBot has recently launched a new ‘Verified Prints’ program for Thingiverse, its extensive repository of 3D files. It seems they are sorting through Thingiverse, testing and pre-slicing files to en…
Price Your Prints with a 3D Printing Price Calculator
Kyle Stevens, of Macy Moo Studios, has developed a 3D Printing Price Calculator plug-in for WordPress that will make it easy for anyone to figure out approximately how much it would cost, in terms of …
Makerbot’s Entry into the Fashion Stakes – The Verlan Dress
Oh yes, it is another 3D printed dress! This one comes to you courtesy of a designer that has been here before, but also from a 3D printer platform that has not — Makerbot’s Replicator 2 — using a new…
Additive Manufacturing and Industrial Tooling (Part 2)
In my previous article, part 1 of this series, I raised the point of how Additive Manufacturing (AM) can help speed up the conventional manufacturing process of tools through the conformal cooling of …
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3D Printing for Dummies – 3DP 1on1 in the Independent
Something along the lines of using CAD software to create STL files in order to create physical objects additively by fused deposition modeling OR baking a sliced load of bread backwards? For their ta…
Layer by Layer – A New 3D Model Marketplace ……. with a Difference.
Ok, keep reading, I know, yes it’s another article about a 3D model repository, but this one appears to be a departure from what you’d expect. Founded by Max Friefeld, Oliver Ortlieb, and Jonathan Sch…