Shapeways 3D Printspiration
Welcome to the Future of Stuff.
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How Cool Is 3D Printing, by Shapeways
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prototypes arrived by nervous system on Flickr.
3D Modeler Needed to Model 3D Printed Repair Part for Senseo Coffee Maker
Every week we are seeing more and more people looking for 3D modelers to help them 3D print everything from human busts to scale laundry baskets through to slightly more functional objects.
A recent request by baerfoot is looking for someone to help him 3D model a repair part for his wife’s Senseo Coffee Machine.
The replacement part is not available from the manufacturer but he has the existing broken part that will be relatively easy to copy for someone with basic 3D modeling skills. If you are a 3D modeler who is capable of helping baerfoot keep his wife caffeinated drop him a line in the Shapeways Forums. While you are there you may as well submit your portfolio in the 3D Modelers for Hire section too.
Jesus on a 3D Printed Potato Chip!!!!
It’s a sign! Right here on our potato chips! This super realistic potato chip with a discoloration bears an uncanny resemblance to the butchered painting Ecce Homo. Don’t actually try to eat it, not that you would want to destroy such a work of art (again!). If you want some other image on the chip, just let me know and I can make you a custom one for $50 plus the 3D printing costs.
Free Autodesk Software licenses for Students, Faculty and Displaced Workers
Autodesk offer free 3 year software licenses under their assistance program for Students, Faculty and Displaced Workers.
This is an awesome program for students and/or the unemployed to get their hands on some professional tools (including 3D modeling software), hone their skills and knowledge of software to make them an asset to an employer or maybe even start your own business.
Software that may be suitable for 3D modeling for 3D Printing with Shapeways include Autodesk Product Design Suite, 3ds Max, Inventor, Maya and AutoCad.
* Free products may not be used for commercial, professional, or other for-profit purposes, and are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies the software.
via Between The Lines.
How To Start 3D Printing With Shapeways from Autodesk’s 123D Apps
You can now 3D Print your designs with Shapeways from models created in Autodesk’s 123D range of free 3D applications including 123D, 123D Catch and 123D Sculpt.
Autodesk have been making 3D modeling accessible with a range of fantastic free tools to help you make your ideas for real.. Once you have created your 3D file in 123D, 123D Catch or 123D Sculpt you will need to create an account or log in to save it to ‘My Corner’ of Autodesk’s www.123dapp.com.
Once your designs are stored in the Autodesk cloud you can head on over to the fabricate page:
- Start a 3D Printing project
- Choose your design from ‘My Corner’
- Specify unit of measurements and scale
- Choose a 3D Printing service (hint: Shapeways)
- Log in with your Shapeways account (or register for a new one)
- Your 123D App produce model will now upload to Shapeways so you can 3D print in any of our materials.
A massive thanks to the team at Autodesk for creating so many awesome apps for the PC and iPad that make it fun to get started making 3D objects ready for 3D Printing…
We will do an overview and analysis of each of the apps in the near future to help you choose which app works best for your designs…
If anyone in the community are interested in doing a review of 123D Apps please let us know.
In the meantime check out the 123D blog to keep up to date with 123D happenings along with Shaan Hurley’s Between the Lines for some super inspirational Autodek technology news…
3D Modeling Stitch Mesh: The Future of Fabric and Fashion?
Cem Yuksel and his colleagues at Cornell have developed a way of producing Stitch Meshes for 3D Modeling Knitted Clothing with Yarn-level Detail. The top row of images is photographs of actual fabric while the bottom is the 3D modeled fabric.. An amazing level of detail that would look phenomenal if it were to be 3D printed in some kind of flexible, elastic like material….
Analyze, Recognize, Retrieval: Copyright or Share?
Fujitsu has developed a technology for retrieving 3D CAD models with partially similar shapes from an existing database. This has been developed to speed up design time when engineers need to create new models by drawing in parts and geometry from existing models in the database, there fore making it possible for them to copy sections or incorporate the entire geometry. They claim that this technology they intend to comercialize will save design time up to 90% (I assume that is when the part they are designing is EXACTLY the same).
This technology works by analyzing a database, segmenting the 3D models into component parts, distinctive shapes, protrusions, relationships between surfaces, size, orientation and more. The designer then specifies a search key and 3D models that meet that criteria are displayed in a color coded spectrum to be chosen by the designer.
The idea from Fujitsu has implications for design engineers working within an internal database but the implications are far wider in a social context as the very same technology may be used to inhibit or promote sharing of 3D models with associated IP issues.
- What if this were a way to register a part as being protected by copyright as an artistic work?
- What if this technology were used to register a ‘3D Patent’ of a unique 3D printed mechanism?
- What if these registered parts were used to block a ‘consumer level desktop machine’ from 3D printing copyrighted works.
- What if we used this technology to make a free public database of 3D geometry that can be accessed by Tinkercad, 3DTin, 123D, Inventor Fusion, MeshMixer to make it easy for people to make awesome works from shared models?
What do you think the potential use will be for this technology?
Blender: preparing my model “Earth Tree” for upload on Shapeways for 3D print
