Jenni Stuart is a Boston-based jeweler who specializes in high-end fabrication and custom fine jewelry design. All of her pieces are uniquely original, and meticulously crafted – mostly by hand, but Jenni also started using CAD a few years ago to help speed her design process.
Artists around the world have been using 3D printing in their work. They recreate important pieces of history as contemporary replicas for modern-day exhibitions and viewing. This article summarizes some mind-blowing examples.
The self-service industry has been around for more than two decades, but the emergency of 3D printing vending machines could change both that and the 3D printing industry. Self-serving machines such as self-help kiosks and vending machines have served a wide range of clientele including retail, entertainment, travel, financial services, and healthcare among others. You must have used a self-help kiosk at a hotel, an airport, or a restaurant such as McDonald's or a vending machine at the cinema or your office at some point.
As you know, we recently launched GrabCAD Voxel Print, an innovative and groundbreaking way to digitally design and fabricate more complex composite materials on the Stratasys J750 PolyJet printer. We had help in creating this feature rich software enhancement from the rapid prototyping group at LAIKA, the production house that brought us the creative works of Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings, Boxtrolls, and many other wonderful animated film productions.
The world of 3D printing is constantly evolving and expanding, and one area in which we are seeing a technological renaissance of sorts is the footwear realm. 3D printing technology has now enabled product customization of sneakers, not only with regard to aesthetics but with the aim of physically helping people. Sneakers can now be printed and tailored to a runner’s biometrics or to the individual’s low or high foot arches.
Julio C. Figueroa is a sophomore studying computer science at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He became a member of the GrabCAD Community in high school and has used the knowledge he’s gained as a member to design and build his own 3D printer and help start his own company.
After considering the increasing strength of FDM materials in my last post for the GrabCAD blog, it seemed fitting to move onto other 3D printing processes. In the final words of that post, I highlighted how the “application is the key, and finding the right solution in terms of strength but aligned with economic viability and added value is the goal.”
One of the things we strive to do here at GrabCAD is continually improve and enhance the user experience for our Community of designers, engineers, manufacturers, and students.
Our latest improvement tidies up the Questions section, making it more user friendly, easier to navigate, and faster to find the answers you’re looking for.
As we approach the end of 2017, without a doubt one of the breakthrough scientific achievements of the year was the restoration of fertility in mice by implantation of 3D printed ovaries.