Sculpteo 3D printing blog

Maker Faire is coming to Paris on the 2nd and 3rd of May. This worldwide show, born in San Mateo in 2006, is coming to the French capital for the second time. It’s all happening inside the Foire de Paris, at the Parc des Expositions. In total, 6000 s...

Being able to construct an object through 3D printing—directly in color to boot—is a very enticing prospect. To achieve this, some 3D printer manufacturers have developed technologies that allow color to be added directly during the 3D printing proce...

If you’re interested in 3D printing and our manufacturing methods, you probably know about the most widely used 3D printing materials. Those include polyamide, resin, alumide, multicolor and some metals. However, these materials are just the tip of t...

This week, the Sculpteo’s free 3D printing tutorial series is growing. We’re happy to announce the latest: the CATIA tutorial! Catia is not the most easy 3D modeling software out there, but it sure is the most complete if you’re looking at making a c...

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...