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Laser Cutting or Water Jet Cutting: Which is Best for Your Application?

Posted By Hannah Bensoussan on Apr 12, 2017

When it comes to digital manufacturing cutting techniques, there are several options, that can each take the information from your 2D file in order to create your object directly. The two main ones are laser cutting and waterjet cutting. Today, we will compare those two techniques, and see which one fits which application best. How does laser cutting work? Laser cutting is a subtractive manufacturing technique that uses a focused...

News on our 3D Printing Material : Alumide 3D Printing Material is more Faster & Just as Colorful

Posted By Hannah Bensoussan on Apr 10, 2017

Our 3D printed Alumide can now be shipped faster, the dyeing option is cheaper, and its maximum dimensions are changed. Read all the 3D printed alumide news, as well as a reminder on this 3D printing material’s characteristics, and available colors.   New maximum sizes for 3D printed alumide When you design to 3D print in alumide, make sure you respect these maximum sizes: For raw 3D printed alumide: 315 x 240 x 190 mm. When raw,...

3D Printing Companies :What are the Challenges of Running a 3D Printing Factory?

Posted By Hannah Bensoussan on Apr 5, 2017

3D Printing is one of the key elements of the era of the factory of the future. 3D printing services make it possible for any person or business with a 3D file to virtually run their own 3D printing factory, distantly, and go from a file to an object, easily, at a moderated cost, and without the need to invest in machines and in their running, maintenance and update. But what goes on behind this apparent seamlessness? What happens...

Online Optimization Tools for 3D printing

Posted By Sculpteo on Apr 5, 2017

Our main mission as digital manufacturing service is not only to provide the best 3D printing and laser cutting service, materials quality but also to make 3D printing accessible to everyone. That’s why we do our best to enable you to manage your 3D file directly from our online interface without returning to the 3D modeling software. Today we explain one of the sets of online optimization tools we have created to help you improve...

Best free CAD software: Top of 20 simple CAD program

Posted By Claire Chabaud on Apr 5, 2017

To make a 3D print, you need a 3D file, but to get it you don’t need to be an expert or have a significant budget; you can download 3D files from dedicated marketplaces or try to create it by yourself using 3D CAD & Modeling software. One of the main advantages of free modeling software is that they are often more intuitive than professional software, and are user-friendly for all experience levels. Today we are going to give you...

3D Printing Materials: Our Focus on Material Simulation.

Posted By Sculpteo on Mar 29, 2017

Among the wide range of 3D printing materials that our online 3D printing service offers, you might not know which one to choose for your application, or have a clear idea of the properties of each one. Of course, you can always refer to our material pages, technical specifications, etc. But it can help also to have a comparison of unfamiliar 3D printing materials with more familiar materials that you encounter in your everyday life...

3D Printed Screws & Threads: Which 3D Printing Material, Which Design?

Posted By Hannah Bensoussan on Mar 29, 2017

No matter what’s your 3D printing application, you might at some point need to attach two parts together thanks to screws, whether you want your object to be easy to put together, or you want it to fit into another pre-existing object. Because 3D printing is the champion of integrated assembly, it is tempting to design the screws and threads directly into your 3D printed object. Today, we’ll answer the questions: Should you 3D print...

Design guidelines for Metal Laser Cutting Service

Posted By Sculpteo on Mar 29, 2017

We recently launched our new metal laser cutting offer. Online metal laser cutting is an easy, fast, and high-quality way to create your mechanical and aesthetic parts, but, to make the most of it, it is important to apply some essential design rules. Today, we share with you those design rules, as well as some information about how metal laser cutting works, that will help you understand the reasons behind the design rules.  ...

Multicolor 3D printing: How does Multi color 3D Printing Work and What Is It For?

Posted By Hannah Bensoussan on Mar 22, 2017

What are the options to 3D print in colors? Of course, you can paint a monochrome part created with SLS (Selective Laser Sintering), SLA (Stereolithography) or another technology. You can also use a multi-nozzles FDM (Fused Desposition Modeling) 3D printer to have several separated colors directly in your 3D print. Or you can 3D print directly in multicolor, directly in the 3D printer, with pretty much as many colors options as you...

Free shipping worldwide for Laser Cutting Service.

Posted By Sculpteo on Mar 22, 2017

Spring is here already, the sun starts to bring more warm and bright days and so do we. At Sculpteo we are giving our best to provide ways to realize the ideas using the digital manufacturing technologies of 3D Printing and Laser Cutting.  To thank you for your commitment to our services, we offer you free shipping worldwide for all Laser Cutting orders until March 28 at 12 pm PST, using the promo code FLYLASERFLY at checkout.  ...