Sculpteo 3D printing blog

In the “Officer Blue” episode aired on 12 November 2005, you can see how a 3D printer is used to solve a crime. “A police officer is shot in the middle of Central Park from a building way outside the park. He dies right away. Sadly, the bullet, an im...

Sculpteo allow you to embed 3D models. It’s a great way for designers to showcase their work and for users to share 3D models they love. It’s easy to do : Select a model on our gallery, click on “embed”, and Copy and paste the code on your Blog/Websi...

Christophe Michot and Bertrand Lévy are the founders of Potati.com. Potati is a secured environment for children : it’s a browser, a Web portal and a parental control software. “Potanimals”, as we can call them I suppose, are Potati’s mascots. Christ...

3DTubeMe is an interesting service using your photos to create a 3D model. Add a whole different dimension to your photographs. Just take several pictures of your favorite objects, people or places from different points of view from your digital came...

In this video of DARPA DMACE Challenge Sphere crushing event (December 8, 2010) you can see an animation of the machine used to digitally manufacture the titanium spheres. The Arcam A2 use an electron beam melting process and Ti6Al4V titanium alloy p...

In the same spirit as 3DTin, Tinkercad allow beginners to easily create 3D models for 3D Printing… in your browser. “With only three basic tools you can create a wide range of useful things. Once your project is ready simply download the STL file and...

The scene “A car carrying a surfboard crash into another car. The surfboard flies off the top of that car into the other car through the windshield, killing the driver” At NASA, Kari Byron (MythBusters) uses a 3D printer to create an exact small-scal...

Sculpteo is partnering with LOSC (Lille Olympique Sporting Club) to offer supporters a chance to become part of their favorite team. Discover the 3D printed soccer figurines! Number 1 of Ligue 1 French Cup, the team edge closer to its first Ligue 1 t...

A Buckyball or buckminsterfullerene is a spherical C60 (Carbon-60) molecule. It was discovered in 1985 by Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University. They were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The name is an homage to ...

In this video, you’ll learn about how 3D printing fits into and can reduce the timeline of the Design process. “I’m using 3D Printers from external providers, in order to print a test model/sample, before printing a real prototype. In this way it’s m...

The guys at Newschannel10 (Amarillo, Texas) made some funny videos starring Mini-You. This is extremely cool, we love when you guys are using the mini-me’s we created for you, and we love it even more when you share results like this ! Now that all i...

Gavin Kenneally, a third-year undergraduate student in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Concordia University, gave a presentation at TEDxConcordia on February 19 2011. He explain why 3D printing has the potential to change how products are de...