3D Printers, materials and technologies | Sculpteo Blog

Ceramic is one of the most exciting materials for 3D printing. With 3D printed ceramic, you can create designs that are food safe, withstand high temperatures, and have a high-quality glossy finish. But it is also one of the most difficult materials ...

Thanks for coming up to our third meetup in Paris. We had a great time! Benjamin Renaud and Oliver Tate, co-founders of the model making studio Work and Progress, gave an excellent talk about finishing technique for 3D printed pieces. For those of yo...

Our White Detail Resin material is having a great success among the community. You have lots of questions regarding the best practices to apply for getting the desired result. Let’s try to answer them! How does the White Detail Resin look like? White...

Austrian researchers from the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at the TU Vienna are setting a new world record with the development of a high-precision 3D printer capable of producing nanometer sized objects. The technique is called two-...

Personal Do-It-Yourself 3D printers are among makers’ all time favorites. In the last several years, Makerbot or RepRap, the most popular devices on the market, have highlighted the incredible possibilities of 3D printing technologies. It’s exciting ...

Thingiverse user “eried” designed this incredible 3D Printable Velcro “This is the first iteration (third internal) of my attempt to make printable Velcro. It is pretty nice to hang things, probably this small piece will resist much more than a kilog...

In the March/April 2011 issue of Time Compression, Terry Wohler wrote a column entitled “Why You Won’t Have an AM Machine in Your Garage” Here is some interesting excerpts For many years, additive manufacturing (AM) industry insiders have speculated ...

This ABC story is about the RepRap: an open-source self-replicating 3D Printer. The interviewee is Dr Adrian Bowyer, its inventor and senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath. Imagine the industrial revolu...

Ultimaker is the new 3D printer on the block with a large build volume, high speeds and accuracy. It was designed by Martijn Elserman, Erik de Bruijn and Siert Wijnia. In a “Star Wars”-like introduction they narrate how it all began: “Once upon a tim...