Sculpteo 3D printing blog

Prospective projects including 3D Printing are regularly shaking automative manufacturing by re-inventing the way we conceive and build cars. But should you wait several years before using 3D Printing in your own car? Last week’s announcement of the ...

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...

If you’re building a product with the goal to start a hardware company. Then, you should have one thing in mind and one thing only: build a product your users will love. That’s where being able to manage the way you’re using 3D printing in the differ...

3D printing gluing is a big topic for both hobbyists and professional. We receive questions from people on a near-daily basis who find themselves in a bind over what glue to use on their 3D printed objects. As a materials engineer at Sculpteo, I’d lo...

We at Sculpteo work with some amazingly talented 3D Modelers and Designers! And we couldn’t continue to provide great photos of our prints without the help of our own talented in-house designers & modelers. That’s why today we are happy to share terr...

It’s actually really easy to find a quote for your 3D Print 3D printing is catching on more and more these days, and it’s quickly becoming a technology that empowers consumers by offering customization or modification options that were unavailable ju...

The Poppy project (the open-source robot that anybody can build) has made new followers ! In an article dedicated to the project, we explained that we 3D print the mechanical parts constituting the robot. It is now the turn of Alexandre Le Falher and...

We’ve often been asked for batch operations in the ‘My Objects’ library; having the possibility to delete multiple objects at the same time, or to organize them into groups or folders. A few weeks ago, we started offering that functionality as part o...

The 19th of may, we organised a meetup in Paris around a very central subject related to 3D printing: intellectual property. It is a complicated topic, definitely current, especially in France: lately, the senators talked about a law project called “...

Mathilde Berchon, the brilliant author behind Making Society blog, has released the essential guide to know about and to choose your best hardware incubator. It’s a special pleasure to tell you about Mathilde‘s work, since she has been publishing hun...

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...