Sculpteo 3D printing blog

In our quest to provide access, online, to the Factory of the Future, we decided four months ago to launch our laser cutting service in addition to the online 3D printing service. The purpose is to allow you to combine the best of the two technologie...

Sculpteo Bike Project arrived in Las Vegas! It had been presented all the week to the public at CES 2017. The press and the people there were impressed and talked a lot about it and even a French presidential Candidate rode the bike! In this short ar...

The first steps (or spin of the wheels) of the Sculpteo Bike Project are finally happening! After several weeks of design, manufacturing and iterations, the designers went for a ride in Paris before letting the bike fly away to Las Vegas for CES 2017...

Sculpteo created a fully functional digitally manufactured bike, and it works! It’s the first time ever that a digitally manufactured bike can actually be ridden, not only used as a demo. It combines all the expertise of our online digital manufactur...

Metal 3D printing is now available on our online 3D printing service, with the DMLS and SLM technologies! By putting our expertise and intuitive platform at the service of 3D Printing Aluminium, Stainless Steel, and Titanium, we are opening new possi...

The 3DP Case adventure has reached its end. Since 2012, our customers created and personalized so many awesome cases for their smartphones. The principle was very easy. You choose the model of your smartphone, a style, some graphics and text and we 3...

A few weeks ago, we published the story of Nanoracing, one of our customers, who builds small-size racing drones. Today, we present to you another of our customers who specializes in racing drones: UVify. Their Head of Business Development, Robert Ch...

3D modeling doesn’t have to be complicated. It can actually be a lot of fun, and, at the same time provide valuable knowledge and stimulating creative thinking. CAD for kids can teach children virtual thinking, geometry, and as we believe at Sculpteo...

XtreeE is a cutting edge company, working on revolutionizing the construction and architecture industries, through large-scale 3D Printing of concrete. Philippe Morel, XtreeE president, was kind enough to receive us in their Paris office, in the cowo...

Acrylic is one of the four materials we offer for laser cutting, with plywood, MDF and cardboard. Acrylic being a light-sensitive material, it can be hard to imagine what the material looks like only with the pictures you find on our acrylic material...

From the first lasers (and their ancestors the MASERs) to today’s laser cutting, there’s quite an interesting history of trials and errors, dismissal and discoveries. To understand a bit better what’s behind our new laser cutting service, take this h...

Laser cutting is a fascinating process, which enables you to create beautiful objects, most commonly in 2D. However, there are some techniques that exist and that allow you to create 3D objects from flat materials. Among them is what we call living h...