Sculpteo 3D printing blog

In Sculpteo’s continuing series of free online tutorials for 3D printing, we’re happy to announce the latest: the Blender Tutorial! The only thing better than a free 3D modeling program is a free guide to get your designs 3D printable – and between S...

In a long time ago (almost 5 years actually), we had posted a tutorial on our blog for Sketchup to familiarize our users with the program. That post offers some of the best pratices when modeling for a 3D print, such as optimal export functions and h...

From the 7th of February to the 20th of September, Cap Sciences has organised “Fouille, farfouille. Aventure-toi dans le temps !”. Like real scientists, 3-6 years old children will discover how archaeologists work and have to find out buried objects ...

Sculpteo’s Glossary pages are finally available in both French and English! Defining the complex technology that is 3D printing and additive manufacturing without using a technical term can be a bit complicated. We decided to clear up any confusion w...

Powerful, well designed, safe and smart… We’re talking about the ELECTRICMOOD, the world’s smartest portable transportation. Entrepreneur David Libault explains how 3D printing helped build this e-Scooter into a success. ELECTRICMOOD is not your aver...

The gifting season may have just ended, but at Sculpteo we’re offering a treat anyway. We’re launching three new precious metal finishes: pink gold, white rhodium and black rhodium! Now all you need is an inspired design for jewelry and you’ll have a...

Just a few weeks ago zBrush released its most recent update to the zBrush modeling program. Now with uArtsy and Sculpteo – turn your zBrush designs into a print! It’s no secret that designing for a 3D print can be a complicated process. You have to w...

Hello from Pierre! I’m in charge of research and development for the material and process at Sculpteo. Working in tandem with the engineering team, we do everything we can to make your 3D printed object look great, from pre-printing preparation up th...

If you’re a professional designer that’s looking to take your manufacturing and prototyping into the 3rd dimension through Autodesk Inventor, we’ve put together the tutorial for you. In Sculpteo’s continuing series of 3D modeling tutorials, the next ...

The 15th of February, ŠKODA France launched a special campaign for customers who have taken a test-drive: customize and 3D print your own miniature Fabia! It is the first time a brand has used 3D printing for a campaign of this type.      How can you...

As I’m writing this we have over 750 responses to our ‘State of 3D Printing’ survey! We’re making a final push in order to make this the largest 3D printing survey to date! If you haven’t taken our state of 3D printing survey yet, now is it the time....

In the 3D printing world, we’re also talking about “resolution”. It’s not about pixels or dpi though, it’s all about the layer thickness. And since the 3D printing word is doing everything differently: the lower it is the better. Until now, we were o...