Sculpteo 3D printing blog

A while ago, we’ve been introducing our very first webinar series : Ask a 3D Designer. Thanks to its growing success, we’ve been thinking that not everyone knows how to use a 3D printing service online. That’s why, we’re launching a new series called...

The “Solidity Check” is among the first tools we developed to let you order your 3D prints online with as little surprises as possible. In a nutshell, it’s a visual simulation of your 3D print’s strength. It’s fairly easy. If your model is all green,...

Chess is the new hype ! So they say. For the release of their 52nd edition, the visual culture magazine Kiblind is investigating the come-back of chess in our life. Together with Kiblind, we’re challenging people to make the best 3D model of any ches...

Poppy was born from the desires of groups like INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation) and Génération Robots to democratize and popularize robotics research by developing a fully open source robot. The idea was to mak...

We are proud to announce that Sculpteo has raised €5 million from XAnge and Creadev. This investment will accelerate our growth, further globalize our offering and strengthen our industrial base.  Creadev joins Sculpteo’s previous investors, XAnge wh...

Sculpteo Headquarters, 2:30 pm It was a morning like any other at Sculpteo. Or at least that’s how it seemed at first. Operations were running smoothly and workers were bustling about: checking the machines, planing new jobs, preparing deliveries whe...

Have you been looking for an exciting position in the fast-paced field of 3D printing? Well now’s your chance to get in at one of the most prestigious 3D printing services on the market. Sculpteo is an international company in two of the most bustlin...

This is a pretty usual situation. You have a 3D file with texture and you want to 3D print it in our multicolor material. It’s reasonable to aim for the best possible print and therefore use the highest possible resolution for your texture. That’s wh...

This has been the number one request our community has expressed for quite some time. Now everything is in place to upload multiple 3D file to our system! It might seem simple at the first glance, but we’ve radically changed our approach on the way w...

How do you take into account thermal shrinkage and printing resolution when you’re designing your 3D model? Matthew, process engineer at Sculpteo, explains the process in detail and give tips for your mechanical parts. For this  post we will focus on...