REPLICATOR — Putting the "Custom" Back In Customer. Gifs have become a fixture of the web, transformed Buzzfeed into a major media entity, and brought countless millions of hours of joy to bored office drones the world over. There’s a gif search engine and a service that will turn these little moments of web zen into IRL animated pictures. So why aren’t these miniature animations used more widely for practical purposes? Do any ecommerce sites use animated gifs to show off the unique features of a product? How about replacing turgid instructional guides with gif-tastic help pages?
Animated images are a perfect midpoint between static images and full on video content, but are rarely used for productive purposes, with a few exceptions. DIY.org, a kid friendly site that aims to transform little video gamers into latter day scouts uses the art form to highlight the physicality of their merit badges: Despite their obvious utility, these catchy little cartoons are relegated to cat pics and epic fails. 2. 3. HT: Nick de la Mare 1. HT: Tim O’Reilly. Blog | Ultimaker | the fast, easy to build, affordable 3D printer – 3D printing for everyone! Blog - Fabbaloo.
Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication. 3D Printing Service i.materialise. Blogs - RhinoFabLab. S Blog. ROB Technologies AG. Blog. Wednesday, February 19, 2014 by Alexander Steiner There is a new German book out by Petra Fastermann on the current status of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing technology: 3D-Drucken: Wie die generative Fertigungstechnik funktioniert. Mrs Fastermann already published several successful books on the 3D printing industry during the last years. Her new book explains all the many manufacturing technologies in a manner that non-technicians do also get the point easily. An extra chapter provides a description on fixing errorenous STL files with netfabb software. Furthermore the book focuses on possibilities for private households which those new technologies provide or will provide in the future.
Category: Additive Manufacturing ShareThis Comments [ 0 ] Friday, May 06, 2011 by Ulf Lindhe Is this one of the coolest things ever 3D Printed? The Boeing Phantom Ray made its first flight on April 27, 2011, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Blog. Why is wall thickness such a difficult challenge to solve?
The goal was to create tools to help designers identify and fix potential problem areas prior to 3D printing. The solution had to provide accurate and relevant data, in order to help 3D designers speed up the design and iteration cycle. Man vs Machine Take, for instance, a triangle: at the very tip, the wall thickness gradually becomes zero. The same concept applies to the edges of a blade of grass. The wall thickness will eventually get below the minimum wall thickness requirement for 3D printing. Yet these objects are printable and a 3D Printing Engineer would know that. Measurement Complexity Another challenge is measurement complexity. Furthermore, we see a lot of complex 3D models, designed by our community, that push the boundaries of design. Our Discovery Process How it Works We shifted the question from “What is the wall thickness and is it too thin?”
I.materialise 3D printing service blog. Are you looking for a specific model; but can’t find the right size? Dave Cowden, a mechanical engineer with a passion for 3D printing, came up with the solution: Parametric Parts . An interview! What’s your background? David : «I was educated as a Mechanical Engineer, but I’ve always enjoyed ‘making things’. I moved into the IT industry about 15 years ago, and managed an e-commerce team for 10 years during the dot-com boom. Why did you start Parametric Parts? Can you tell us a little bit more about it? «Designers can create models that yield an unlimited number of possibilities, and users can finally get what they want without endless searching.»
How will it help designers? How easy is it to use? Right now there are 14 models; how many models do you want to put online in time? Do you make these models? Can you give an example how and why designers would want to customize these models? Who can use your web based app? Project Photofly: What You Is See Isn't Always What You Get. Project Photofly is our technology preview of converting photographs to 3D models. You start with a set of photographs that you load into a Photo Scene Editor – a small application you install on your Windows PC. Using the Photo Scene Editor, you upload the photos to the Project Photofly server. The server then converts the photographs to a 3D photo scene by lining up features in the photographs and returns the photo scene to the Photo Scene Editor running on your computer.
From the Photo Scene Editor, you can save the photo scene to your computer in a variety of ways. What you save depends on the format you have chosen. A frequently asked question is "Why doesn’t the DWG contain the mesh data? " Project Photofly v1 populated DWG files with sparse point clouds – sparse in that the point clouds created were only large enough to determine the locations of the cameras. Ladies and gentleman, start your engines. Project Photofly 2.0 Explaining what’s under the hood is alive in the lab. Ponoko – Blog. Blog - Fabbaloo. Untitled. HarrySwartout.com. Freedom Of Creation | Pioneers in 3D Printed Designs.