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Making Meaning
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Okay, it’s 2018 and time to start all over again. But sometimes the process of getting started is… hard to get started. How do you even start planning out a project? Today on Tutorial Tuesday we’ll talk about new beginnings and some projects we’re starting this year, including the sometimes messy process of figuring out what to make and what it means to be meaningful… // Column at Shapeways
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Family Design Roundup
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This Tutorial Tuesday we’ll highlight some of this year’s 3D design tutorials that even the youngest (or oldest!) of your loved ones can use to make custom and personalized 3D prints in just a few minutes. Choose one of the tutorial introductions below and get started creating in no time with Tinkercad, Hero Forge, Cura Lithopanes, the Snowflake Machine, Morphi, BlocksCAD, or 3D Slash… // Column at Shapeways
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Triple Check Knit
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Today we’ll take a break from digital 3D design and do some good old-fashioned analog knitting. Here’s a pattern we’ve been working on recently. What is this crazy stitch, and where did it come from? We call it the Triple Check, and it’s a stitch we made up for multicolor reversible scarves that we could knit during math talks and committee meetings. Maybe it’s new, maybe it isn’t; we aren’t sure yet… // Hacktastic
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Design Exploration with Vectary
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Today’s 3D printing advice: Figure out what your design software is good at doing and THEN design something, not the other way around. If you start the design process with a rigid idea of what you want to make, then you’ll have to bang your head against the wall to try to get your software to do what you need it to. But if you have the luxury of being flexible about what you’re designing, then you can… // Column at Shapeways
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Vases in Fusion 360 Two Ways: Lofting and Sculpting
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Today we’ll review two simple but powerful ways to make a custom vase in Fusion 360, and also give you some tips on how to keep your printing costs down. It’s easier than you might think to make a unique custom vase design, even if you’re new to 3D modeling. One good place to start is with excellent video walkthrough Crazy Vases using the Loft Feature in Fusion 360… // Column at Shapeways
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Organic Snowflake Ornaments
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This year we created six beautiful organic snowflake designs, procedurally generated with code in a way that mimics the way that actual snowflakes form as they fall to earth through changing temperature and atmospheric conditions, including random “wiggles” that introduce imperfections into the structure of the flake. The six flakes were created to represent Estonia, Finland, Canada, Russia, Iceland, and Switzerland… // Hacktastic
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Make One Billion Snowflakes With the Snowflake Machine
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In this Tutorial Tuesday we’ll make personalized 3D printed snowflakes using the Snowflake Machine, a Customizer built on OpenSCAD code that can procedurally generate over one billion unique snowflakes based on random seeds and user-set design parameters. Don’t worry, it’s easier than that just sounded! Here’s a step-by-step how-to guide so you can get your holiday snowflakes… // Column at Shapeways
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Text Wrapping with Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Tools
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Sometimes the easiest things can be so difficult. Wrapping text around a cylinder, which is exactly what you’d want to do when making a text-engraved ring, is one of those things! Today we’ll focus on one surprisingly elegant text-wrapping technique for Fusion 360…
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Turning One Snowflake Into Billions with OpenSCAD
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Today, we’ll learn how to turn one simple snowflake design into multiple products in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials. We’ll start with simple low-res 3D prints and prototypes on desktop FDM machines, and eventually level up to printing in Nylon and Plated Rhodium at Shapeways. The snowflake design we’ll be working with was created with parametric code in OpenSCAD… // Guest Post at Shapeways
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Leveraging Math and Materials to Make Bangles That Fit
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Bangle bracelets are great, but they’re so darn bangly. A circular bangle bracelet has to be pretty big to fit over your hand, which makes it very loose around your wrist once you get it on. If you think about it, when you use a bangle bracelets you’re wearing it 99% of the time, but pulling it over your hand only 1% of the time. How do you make a design that’s optimized for the 99% instead of the 1%?… // Column at Shapeways
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