News — 3D Design

This week at Profound 3D we've been making different prints after the craziness of the holiday weekend has passed. Our favorite one around the office is this beauty made with Polymaker PolyPlus™ PLA 3D Printing Filament True Orange 1.75mm. It was made on the Afinia H800 3D Printer.     The settings used to create it are below.

Taken from The Hechinger Report Column by CHRIS BERDIK On a  recent Saturday at Einstein’s Workshop, a maker space outside Boston, boisterous kids were busy with Legos, mini motors and gears, magnetic tiles, pipe cleaners, posterboard, markers and tape. In a side room, about a dozen elementary and middle school students were learning computer-aided design (CAD) for 3D printers. Their instructors shut the door, but couldn’t completely keep out the creative chaos. Nor did they want to. Like all educators mixing high-tech with hands-on, they faced a familiar challenge—the freewheeling, playful problem-solving that comes naturally to kids using blocks or...

Taken from 3DPrint.com by Bridget Butler Millsaps While we have the opportunity to follow some absolutely amazing stories here at 3DPrint.com, it’s hard to top the heartwarming feeling one gets just seeing the words e-NABLE. We always know something good is going to follow, and while there are certainly many individuals around the world undergoing many different challenges, seeing children living in impoverished areas regain functionality due to prosthetics is a positive all around, and something we never tire of hearing about. It’s obviously so fulfilling for these volunteers as a team around the world that they want to keep...

The costume and replica prop communities have taken to 3D printing like wildfire. From making full Iron Man costumes to Thingiverse’s amazing collection of Star Wars props, 3D printing has become a great way for fans to show their love for their favorite movies or characters. Last week, 3D printer manufacturer Zortrax gave back to that community by creating an amazing 3D printable mask inspired by the comic book superheroes we all love. The Zortrax Super Hero mask was designed to be printed on the Zortrax M200 using Zortrax’z Z-HIPS material. Don’t worry though — if you don’t have an M200, Zortrax...

Designers worldwide are creating 3-D-printed buildings, furnishings and materials. Will we be seeing this trend in our own homes? Three-dimensional printing is one of the most talked-about technologies of this decade. Some consider it the beginning of the third industrial revolution, while others point out the constraints of the technique. Is 3-D printing changing our architecture, and is it the way we’ll design our homes in the future? Below, we look at the phenomenon of 3-D printing worldwide, including a delicate resin pavilion in China, classical-design-inspired concrete beams in Italy and buildings that “think” in Germany. Read more on Houzz.com