ST-Developer - STEP Tools, Inc. Since 1991, ST-Developer has been the most reliable, best performing, easiest to use, and most broadly supported SDK for STEP, STEP-NC, IFC, and related digital manufacturing standards! Add ST-Developer libraries to your software to read and write STEP CAD, CAM, and IFC BIM data, verify and view the results, ship your applications easily, and let our trained support staff guide you through the complexities of digital manufacturing data! Other features and recent additions include: STEP Faceting library that transforms STEP geometry into triangular meshes for display in an OpenGL, WebGL or other applications. New platform support for Visual Studio 2013 and 2012, MacOS Mavericks and the latest Clang-based Xcode, and shared libraries for Mac/Linux. Try before you buy with ST-Developer Personal Edition!
FreeCAD : Le modeleur CAO paramétrique libre FreeCAD est un modeleur 3D paramétrique fait principalement pour concevoir des objets réels de toutes les tailles. La conception paramétrique permet d'éditer facilement votre design en remontant dans l'historique du modèle afin d'en changer les paramètres. FreeCAD est libre et fortement personnalisable, scriptable et extensible. FreeCAD est multiplatefome (Windows, Mac et Linux) et ouvre et sauvegarde de nombreux formats de fichier tels que STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE et beaucoup d'autres. En savoir plus... À qui FreeCAD s'adresse? L'utilisateur occasionnel ou le bricoleur. L'utilisateur CAO expérimenté. Le programmeur. L' éducateur. 30 Most Innovative 3D Printing Companies 2016 3D printing business and the number of 3D printing startups continues to grow. Here are the most innovative 3D printing companies in 2016. As the 3D printing industry continues to grow, its landscape inevitably continues to shift and evolve. This feature focuses primarily on innovative and new(er) start-up companies within the additive manufacturing space — those that have identified a new opportunity and/or developed new processes and technology — with one notable exception. However, if you think we‘ve missed any important 3D printing companies, please feel free to add your contributions in the comments section. Innovative 3D Printing Companies #1: 3D Hubs What Does This 3D Printing Company Do? Why Is It One of the Most Innovative 3D Printing Companies? To date, 3D Hubs has successfully closed three rounds of funding, and the number of registered hubs (personal 3D printers and industrial services) has grown to a 40,000 strong network. When: Launched 2013. HQ: The Netherlands More: Website
verb - A CAD Library for the Web Mug Music: Turn Water Into an Instrument with Arduino and ChucK What if you could turn any conductive surface into an instrument? Like, say...a mug of water? Best of all, it's cheap; you'll only need $1 worth of extra electrical components (not including the Arduino). For this project, my friend Harvest and I combined Disney's Touché touch-sensing system with Arduino, and then used ChucK to generate music based on the input. Some thank-you's are in order: Prerequisites: You will find this Instructable much easier to follow if you have a basic understanding of circuits. Common problems, things to watch out for, etc: Make sure your laptop is properly grounded when you do this (e.g. plug it into a wall). Github: A .zip download of all code is available at the next step, but here's the github repo if you want to download the code from there as well. More projects: Check out my blog at bonnie-eisenman.tumblr.com to see what I'm up to.
French Home Appliance Wants You to 3D Print Spare Parts Major French brand Boulanger wants customers to 3D print spare parts, launches new website, “happy3D” to host and share their own exclusive brand designs. Cults 3D announced a new platform that will have many people saying “Finally!” The digital marketplace is partnering up with Boulanger, a major home appliance and multimedia specialist in France to help customers 3D print spare parts quickly and efficiently via their new happy3D website. Boulanger is a huge company in France, making this development that much more exciting. The 60-year-old institution boasts 9,000 employees selling and servicing 20,000 products around the country. “To slow product obsolescence, customers must be able to repair their own high-tech devices and household appliances,” says Gaële Wuilmet, Director of Boulanger Services and Innovation, and B’dom. Can Boulanger Make 3D Printed Spare Parts the Norm? For customers who don’t own printers, Boulanger will hook them up with local 3D Hubs members.
JNetCAD JNetCAD ... ... the Java-Application for viewing and converting CAD data. JNetCAD is a simple Java GUI for importing and exporting several CAD formats. Each im- and export module exists as JAR library and can be used separately in other projects. Im- and exporter concept As mentioned above, the im- and export modules have been implemented as independend Java libraries, which can be used as loaders (for viewer, analyzer, ...) and conversion tools. Conversion example: JT -> JSON / CTM (WebGL) Here is an embedded example of the conversion from JT to JSON (WebGL). Screenshot (Firefox) Rotation: Left mouse button Translation: Right mouse button Scale: Wheel mouse button Click here for full screen with picking feature. Conversion example: JT -> 3D-PDF Licence All components can be used in non commercial or educational projects for free. Donation Downloads
Making music with JELL-O and 10 other foods And to think, we were always told as kids not to play with our food! Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a number of edible musical arrangements from chicken nuggets to sushi. Thanks to Nashville and Atlanta-based ad agency redpepper, we can add one more piece of food to the list: JELL-O. In an effort to “make capacitive touch more festive and jiggly,” the team created a keyboard using an [Atmel-based] Arduino and several LED lights embedded inside small JELL-O molds, each programmed to play different Piezo tones when tapped. Hungry for more meal-inspired, piano-like music? Gingerbread Houses Chicken McNuggets Sushi Veggie Burgers Bananas Pizza Carrots Hershey Kisses French Cuisine Oranges Like this: Like Loading... Related Turning chicken nuggets and sushi into music with MaKey MaKey In "Arduino" Happy Hallow-uino! Let’s face it, Halloween is arguably one of, if not, the best night to be a Maker -- a celebration full of carving, candy consumption, and of course, DIY props and costumery.
MakerScanner - open source 3d scanning 3D printing from Tinkercad We’re delighted to announce that Tinkercad, a very easy-to-use CAD tool that runs in a browser (via WebGL), now offers a one-click support to our i.materialise 3D printing service. Thanks to this feature, getting an idea designed, printed, and in your hands is truly a piece of cake. Tinkercad is very user-friendly: with only three tools, a wide variety of designs can easily be made in Tinkercad in 5 minutes, or less. And remember, you can do all of this  in your browser with no installation required. Once your project is ready, simply click on the “Print 3D” button in the upper right-hand corner of the editor. Your design will be sent to the i.materialise 3D print lab, where you can choose from a variety of materials and colors. Add the design to your cart, place the order, and within a couple of days you will be showing off your design to everyone you know. Designing and 3D printing your own designs, like the connection piece pictured below has never been easier.