News — 3D Design

Daniel's 3D Printing class has completed the City That Zortrax Built!This summer class was at Timber Lake Camp in the Catskills with the campers creating their and printing their own designs on a Zortrax M200 3D Printer: http://www.timberlakecamp.com/ It was a real pleasure to help Daniel guide his 3D Printing class through this project and follow his progress. Profound 3D loves to support 3D printer use in schools/clubs. We offer special discounts to help support 3D Printer use in education - please contact us for more information on a custom package with a Zortrax, CraftBot, Raise3D, Makerbot, Afinia or one...

Getting ready to brave the rain on our trip to Makerfaire NY. We set up the Raise3D N2+ this afternoon in the NXP Pavilion booth 3501. We'll be here all weekend.

It’s no doubt that 3D printing is a great business tool, but apart from streamlining your company’s performance it can also help improve lives. Not only people’s lives. This time on our blog we want to present you a turtle and his unique story that ended happily thanks to the help of good-hearted people and the cutting edge technology. Read more...

Timber Lake Camp, in Shandaken NY, is using a Zortrax M200 3D printer to construct a city from scratch one building at a time.The 3D Printing Instructor, Daniel, is teaching the campers to use Tinkercad [a program we are very fond of here also] and then print their creations on the Zortrax.They are painting some of the buildings to add realism otherwise hard to obtain when printing with a single color of filament.For some of the campers this is their first exposure to 3D printing and Tinkercad, while others have previous experienceWe will be following the city construction as it...

Taken from Makerbot. BY JESSICA ADAMS Your imagination has a home in Tinkercad. This 3D world of fun shapes and colors allows you to create and print whatever you want– it’s all up to you. Tinkercad makes it easy for students to design accurate 3D models, whether they’re starting from scratch with their own ideas, browsing through Tinkercad’s community designs, or importing a model from Thingiverse. Dedicated to your students’ success, MakerBot provides these 3D printing resources to enhance STEAM learning and elevate creativity in your classroom. After learning Tinkercad’s fundamentals, invite students to show you what they’ve learned with...