Modix announced another large-format 3D printer; the new Big-120Z can 3D print objects 1200mm tall.
This week’s selection is the Termite Economies: Phase 2 (Metabolic Shift) by Australian artist Nicholas Mangan.
Is there a “correct” or “optimal” set of colors for 3D printing materials for artists? One company has scientifically developed a set of unique and beautiful PLA materials for artistic 3D prints.
What opportunities exist for 3D scanning and 3D printing for ancient sculptures? It turns out there are many possibilities, ranging from tactile models to deeper analyses.
Dawn Morse is the co-founder of Holodeck 3D Studios, a 3D photography and printing studio.
This week’s selection is the Green Man by voxeljet and the London Bronze Casting Company.
I’m looking at the equipment provided by Concr3de, which can 3D print in stone.
i.materialise printed a very large sculpture, and in the process revealed some interesting engineering practices.
This week’s selection is the “At Hand” 3D printed tactile display in Modena, Italy.
This week’s selection is the startling Sculpture of Time by Japanese artist Akinori Goto.
This week’s selection is the well designed 3D sculpture of actor Benedict Cumberbatch by 3D Geppetto.
This week’s selection is the horror-inducing Vacanti Man series by artist Rob Elford.
The Woman in 3D Printing I am delighted to present in the blog today is the well-known Bathsheba.
You may have read our recent series on how to properly 3D scan museum sculptures. If so, you’ll want to read the final step I forgot to include!
A clandestine group has secretly 3D scanned the famous Nefertiti sculpture at the Neues Museum in Berlin – and released the scan publicly!
Faculty from the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) and the Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick in the UK are working in collaboration with art historians from the University of Cambridge.
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Don Quixote, Oyma3D has produced an amazing horse 3D print.
One of the things that bugs us a lot is the way many museums consider the intellectual property of their works.
Artficial is a new source for interesting 3D models and prints, focusing on historical sculptures.
A museum in Lincolnshire, UK, has made available highly detailed 3D scans of many of their works.
This week’s selection is the detailed Carl Sagan bust by Mushogenshin Kyakunohoshi of Houston.
Artist Jonty Hurwitz wanted to create the world’s smallest human form. And he did.
This is the true story of how a massive 19th century German sculpture made its way into our 3D printers.
Every once in a while you bump into an incredible 3D print. We did and we wanted to make it, too. Thus began our Winged Victory Project.
Fabbaloo friend Cosmo Wenman, the fellow who produces incredibly detailed 3D models from scanned museum pieces, has released new sculptures. The two new releases are
During 3D Printshow 2013 we spent some time with Cosmo Wenman, the fellow who has captured 3D scans of numerous famous sculptures over the past
Calgary-based PrintToPeer is experimenting with what could be the world’s first crowd-printed sculpture. Anyone with access to a 3D printer can participate. The idea
Cosmo Wenman is well-known for his incredibly realistic and large-size 3D prints of ancient sculptures. How does he do it? He visits museums to capture
A collaboration of artists and technicians has created one of the most amazing 3D printed sculptures ever attempted. Polish company Platige Image required a “statement”
A fascinating art installation leveraging 3D printing is proposed by artist Bill Westheimer of New Jersey. His work “Ascent” explores the idea of transforming “analog
There are endless applications for 3D printing technology. One can create replacement appliance parts, build a machine, equip a UAV and much more. Everyone focuses
We wrote of an unusual crowd funding project to back what would be North America’s largest 3D print to date. The project was to print
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Welcome to Fabbaloo, one of the world’s oldest online news sources for 3D printing news. We’ve been in operation since 2007, where we first started examining the state of 3D printers. These devices are now relatively common among some circles in today’s world, but years ago it was extremely rare to see a 3D printer or even a 3D printed object.
At that time it was challenging to find any 3D printing news, so we decided to make our own site that covered 3D printer news, and even associated technologies like 3D scanning and 3D modeling. Today it is common to find 3D printers in schools, workshops and makerspaces, and you probably have been using 3D printed objects without even knowing they were 3D printed.
Today’s industry has finally taken up the challenge by installing thousands of industrial 3D printers, each producing previously impossible 3D printed parts that make today’s society far more efficient. The aerospace industry in particular has been producing many 3D printed parts, some even for flight critical purposes.
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