Sculpteo 3D printing blog

My3DScanner is a fully-automated, end-to-end online 3D scanning system that takes digital photographs (or videos) as input and produces 3D computer models (dense color 3D point clouds and meshed polygonal models) as output without user intervention. ...

Made in Space, a start-up dedicated to providing solutions for manufacturing in space, announced the successful completion of testing 3D printers in zero-gravity. The test took place on multiple zero-gravity flights provided by NASA’s Flight Opportun...

It’s summertime and this customizable pendant will get you in the mood. You can choose the symbol you want: shark, hippocampus, turtles, butterflies… Then you can add your name or whatever word you want. Try our online tool and make your very own pen...

In the Sculpteo gallery, there is a trojan horse. Not a computer trojan horse but a trojan horse from the famous tale of the Trojan War. It made me think of a short film called “Invention of Love”: a world where everything is mechanical. Written & Di...

This Time lapse video show you the 6 hours modeling of the Olympic 2012 Stadium by Jon Fidler At 4:13 the model is 3D Printed using the FDM technology You can follow Jon Fidler on Twitter and Facebook Image Credit: see Wikipedia...

Engineers at the University of Southampton have designed and flown the world’s first ‘printed’ aircraft, which could revolutionise the economics of aircraft design. SULSA (Southampton University Laser Sintered Aircraft) plane is an unmanned air vehic...

Here at Sculpteo we love apps that make it easier to create 3D models. iCeramic Art for iOS is one of them. With this Virtual Pottery App you can create a unique 3D Model that can be exported in OBJ format and attached to an email. Send us your creat...

Last week I wrote about this new file format that is set to replace the old STL format. Our developpement team has done a great job because today I can announce that Sculpteo now support the AMF format (see all the file formats supported) Here’s the ...

Space Invaders enemies come out into the real world with this customizable keyring. Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later ...

A newly approved standard for 3-D printing file interchange will greatly enhance 3-D printing capabilities, says Cornell’s Hod Lipson, who led the development of the standard. The new file format, which was also developed by former Cornell graduate s...

The guys at FyreUK (Matt and Phil) make amazing Timelapse videos of incredible Minecraft creations: a huge train station, a dam, etc. Matt, Phil and a lot of Minecraft players build structures that can take up to over 3 days to build. On their blog, ...

Sam Green from Objet Geometries made his first video blog post yesterday. He shows how an Objet Connex 500 3D printer can produce 6 different size adjustable wrenches from 5cm in size to 49 cm in size – all in one print run. The wrenches are made of ...