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Our Latest 3D Printing Report: The State of 3D Printing 2016

Posted By Melchior de Wargny on Jun 8, 2016

We are proud to announce the release of the second edition of the State of 3D Printing. This year, we have had nearly 1,000 respondents with different profiles, ranging from engineers to design professionals, at virtually all levels, across all industries, and from all around the world. We have asked what they do, why they do it, how they do it, and if it’s working. The State of 3D Printing report breaks it all down and is now...

5 tips to reduce your 3D Printing costs

Posted By Capucine Lonjon on Jun 1, 2016

Sculpteo is very much concerned with your projects and the amount of money you have to invest when 3D Printing. We elaborated some special tools for you to reduce your 3D Printing costs. This article gives you the keys to make the most of our service with a cost reducing objective.   1. Hollowing tool When you build your 3D model, you may not think of 3D printing it at first. When you come to print it, you realize that your file...

3D Printing with Carbon’s Cyanate Ester: the complete Q&A

Posted By Jess Hedstrom on Jun 1, 2016

Over the past 10 weeks, we’ve had the opportunity to use the new Carbon3D M1 digital light projector (DLP) resin-based 3D printer. Not only is the M1 printer the fastest in its category (stereolithography (SLA) printers), it also is compatible with a wide range of materials. In this blog series we will share our expertise on the Carbon 3D M1 resins. After the 1st post on Rigid Polyurethane the second article will focus on the most...

Is your 3D file good enough for 3D Printing? 6 questions to find the answer

Posted By Nicolas Sadeghi on Jun 1, 2016

Here at Sculpteo, we encounter a lot of different 3D files. However, some of them are not suitable for 3D printing, and need some more work before being produced. Here are the 6 questions you should ask yourself whenever you want to launch the printing of an object!   Does your 3D design have volume? First of all, you need to be sure that your design is a volume. Try to imagine a flat surface as an object: if it exists in real...

Take the assembly out of your enclosures by designing a living hinge

Posted By Jess Hedstrom on Jun 1, 2016

Assembling your enclosures take time and effort to complete, and the last thing you want to do is hand assemble 3D printed enclosures if you don’t have to. That’s why today we will show you one unique design for hinges that will remove the assembly step. Integrated assembly is only one of the many benefits you receive when you use additive manufacturing to create your parts. This is a big benefit for those interested in saving not...

First Aid Kit Upgraded Prototype Thanks to 3D Printing

Posted By Jess Hedstrom on May 25, 2016

Ram Fish is the CEO of startup 19Labs in Palo Alto, CA. When he told us he was using Sculpteo’s 3D printing services to revolutionize the first aid kit, we just had to know the story behind how his startup is merging healthcare with 3D printing. Ram Fish is the Founder/CEO of a startup that has reinvented the traditional first aid kit into the world’s first smart, portable health center. The last thing you want to do in a crisis...

When is 3D Printing the best solution for production?

Posted By Felix Nadin on May 25, 2016

3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, is the process of using specialized equipment to assemble, via a computer and a 3D model, an object layer by layer. It has some unique and interesting advantages over traditional manufacturing. First, additive manufacturing allows production costs to stay the same rather there are one or a thousand units. This has several implications: it makes production available to small businesses...

Our guide to Makerspaces – Part 2

Posted By Claire Chabaud on May 25, 2016

In the second part of our Guide to Makerspaces, we’ll check out two very different places. The Techshop de Paris, which has opened following the lead of Techshops in the United States. This place claims to be open to everyone, including families. And Volumes is a makerspace that is more entrepreneurial and surprising in its focus on research. In order to choose the makerspace best suited for you, we are convinced that you have to...

Express Production: we received an A+

Posted By Capucine Lonjon on May 25, 2016

We kept our promise! We are proud to announce today, almost two months after releasing our Express Production Mode, that we delivered on time 100% of all parts.   Since the beginning of April 2016, Express Production Mode is available on our website. We made you one promise: “we’ll ship your parts in 48 hours or you’ll have your money back”. To be absolutely transparent, only one part could not be delivered on time and it is...

48 hour sale: 20% off your white and dyed plastic 3D prints!

Posted By Sculpteo on May 25, 2016

Flash Sale! Save 20% on your white and dyed plastic 3D prints today and tomorrow. With the code MAIA we are offering a 20% discount on 3D printed white or dyed plastic in all its forms: 100µ or 60µ layer thickness, raw or polished, normal  or express production or economy plan. Make sure you don’t miss out! Among all of our materials, plastic is definitely the most famous and the most requested. There’s a lot of good...