Sculpteo 3D printing blog

Working in a 3D Printing Company turned all of us into enthusiastic advocates of additive manufacturing. Nevertheless on a specialised Reddit forum about 3D printing with passionate people we found some debates such as “Are you disappointed about 3D ...

The Tiny House Movement has been gaining steam in the U.S. & parts of Europe for the past couple years. And you may not know that it shares a lot of the same principals of the 3D printing movement. If you are not familiar with the Tiny House Movement...

When looking at 3D printing an object with the benefit of the SLS 3D printing technology, there is more than regular plastic. One of the material offered by SLS 3D printing is called Alumide. It’s the perfect material to create stiff parts that need ...

Creating a successful 3D printed object first requires you to anticipate the outcome. Our material pages are there to help you understand your design’s constraints, and provide you with material datasheets, etc. The important question is how 3D print...

3D printing and crowdfunding were two major, groundbreaking innovations for entrepreneurial freedom. They stimulate creativity, envision new concepts of entrepreneurship and make it easier to achieve results. They allow people to realize their dreams...

Beyond summer beaches and music festivals what about visiting an hackesrspace and being inspired by making stuff?  The Makermap charts the hackerspaces and the maker resources around the world. The Makermap is an ongoing open source project which aim...

It’s been over an year since the last study about 3D printing costs for personal and professional use so we have decided that a new, updated and improved version was necessary. First of all we started with the basics; as 3D printing technologies evol...

Digging for fossils in our SLS 3D Printer… While you were sleeping our SLS machines were running, and you won’t believe what we found. SLS (which stands for Selective Laser Sintering) and it uses a highly specific laser that binds thin layers of poly...

One of the lessons we learned from our State of 3D Printing report is the existence of a core group of users that have developed super powers in their organizations thanks to 3D Printing. We named them the “Society of the 3D Printing Power-Users”.  A...

12 hours North of the San Mateo Maker Faire, the Power of Play Conference had their 3D printers buzzing. The Power of Play conference focuses on independent video game developers and technologists that want to grow the success of their products. This...