3D Printing
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Making Your Designs Customizable with CustomMaker
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One of the most powerful things about 3D printing is the ability to create customized, one-of-a-kind objects. You could choose to make many different personalized jewelry pieces from one ring or pendant design by making modifications on a case-by-case basis in your own design software. Or, you can use Shapeways’ CustomMaker tool to add text, images, and personalization… // Column at Shapeways
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Quick Fixes With MeshLab
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This week we’ll discuss three methods for modifying 3D meshes with the free software MeshLab. When you export a 3D file to STL format, what you’re doing is creating a file that describes the surface of an object with a mesh of tiny triangles. We’ll focus on the top three issues that can arise with meshes: having too many triangles, badly oriented triangles, or badly intersecting triangles… // Column at Shapeways
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Using OpenSCAD to Design with Code
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This week, we speak to the geeks. Did you know that you can create 3D-printable designs with code — no 3D modeling required? OpenSCAD is a programming language specifically built for creating designs that are exportable as triangular meshes for 3D printing. We’ll walk you through the basics and show off some designs created with this powerful parametric modeling software… // Column at Shapeways
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Beginner 3D Design With Tinkercad
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This week, Tutorial Tuesday is for beginners. If you’ve never designed a 3D model before, then this post will show you how to get started. We’ll start with showing you how to design simple 3D models with a free program called Tinkercad, and then how to send those models to Shapeways for 3D printing. It’s easier than you might think! Get a cup of coffee and join us… // Column at Shapeways
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Full-Color Printing and Character Models
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Welcome to the second Tutorial Tuesday! There’s a lot of 3D printing and design information on the internet, and it’s our job to sort it out. We’ll pick up where we left off last time, with a second round of Shapeways design and printing tutorials. This time we’ll get technical, focusing on some of the more specialized issues that arise when designing, exporting, and printing designs for 3D printing… // Column at Shapeways
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Speed Racer Testbots
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It’s hard to find a better test print than the Ultimaker robot; it has insets, embossings, overhangs, bridges, and posts, all wrapped up in a model that’s less than an inch and a half tall. Plus, it’s cute. This robot is small and prints quickly, but… on an Ultimaker with standard Cura settings, not quickly enough! The Dutch print for quality but I want to print for SPEED. Time to turn the Ultimaker robot into a speed racer… // Hacktastic
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JMU 3SPACE: Building a 3D printing classroom
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Over the last four years, the JMU 3SPACE classroom has supported 3D printing across the curriculum by hosting general education classes, courses in mathematics and art, projects in history and biology, workshops for local K-12 school groups, faculty workshops, and even a 3D printing club. We’ll walk through how 3SPACE went from ideas to equipment to curriculum… // Guest post at Ultimaker Education
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Customizable Snowflake Cookie Cutters
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For the past three years we’ve made a holiday snowflake design: In 2013 it was Snowflake Ornaments, created by extruding an SVG image. In 2014 it was the Snowflake Cutter, which mimicked the way snowflakes are cut out of folded paper. In 2015 it was the Snowflake Machine, which could generate over a billion unique snowflakes in different styles. What could we possibly make this year to top that?… // Hacktastic
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3D Printing Knots at the Unknot Conference
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At this year’s UnKnot conference, Lew Ludwig and Chris Faur set up two 3D printers: a Ultimaker 2E+ and a Formlabs 2, including a UV-light drying station with a solar rotating stand. During the conference, mathematicians designed and 3D printed original models of pretzel knots, hyperboloid stick conformations of torus knots, hexagonal mosaic tiles, and rolling trefoils… // Guest post at Ultimaker Education
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MyMiniFactory + mathgrrl
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Laura Taalman, otherwise known as mathgrrl, has been prolifically uploading 3D models to the My Mini Factory platform since 2013. She now has nearly 200 models online, all available to download for free. She is also a Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University, a talented 3D designer, and knows her way around an Ultimaker 2… // Designer Spotlight at MyMiniFactory
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