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Question of the Week: How Do I Get a 3D Model?
This week’s question delves into the mysterious world of 3D scanning and 3D modeling, typically unknown territory for 3D printing newbies.
Frustum Looking Toward Leadership in Generative Design, Acquired by PTC
Frustum has been busy with new releases — and today with a new parent company.
3D Printing Question of the Week: Automated Re-Engineering?
This week’s question comes from reader Jim Hohimer.
Future Possibilities for 3D Printed Repairs
A reader comment got me thinking about the future of 3D printed repairs.
DesignSpark Mechanical 4.0 BETA Now Available
RS announced the availability of a new version of DesignSpark Mechanical.
The Visual – Solid 3D Modeling Gap
3D designers hoping to 3D print 3D models had better ensure the models are indeed 3D printable.
Simulation Challenges with 3D Printing
Simulation is an amazing technology for designing parts, but it’s harder to do when 3D printing parts.
Fixing Toys With 3D Printing: Not For Everyone
Robert Maldonado undertook a challenging job to repair a broken toy using 3D printing and CAD, illustrating how challenging it can be.
Alternatives to Thingiverse, 2018 Edition
There are plenty of sites to find fabulous pre-made printable 3D models.
Autodesk Consolidates Fusion 360 Tiers
Autodesk is making very significant changes to their Fusion 360 product offerings.
Book of the Week: CAD Engineering Essentials
This week’s selection is “CAD Engineering Essentials: Hands-on Help for Small Manufacturers and Smart Technical People (No Nonsense Manual Book 3)” by Mark Lynch.
Onshape Tightens Licensing For Free Users
It seems that Onshape is making things more challenging for free users of its 3D CAD service.
Is Autodesk Winning the Free CAD War?
I’ve noticed a bit of a trend, at least informally, regarding use of free 3D CAD suites.
Onshape Spreads Across Companies With Onshape Enterprise
3D CAD service provider Onshape announced their latest product, Onshape Enterprise.
Book of the Week: Functional Design for 3D Printing
This week’s selection is the highly practical “Functional Design for 3D Printing” by Clifford Smyth.
Caboma’s 3D Personalization Solution
Montreal-based Caboma has developed some intriguing software that could lead to more widespread personalized 3D printed items.
A Better Way to Generate 3D Models: ParaMatters
There’s a new generative 3D model solution available: ParaMatters.
A Rhino Upgrade Signals Industry Change
Robert McNeel & Associates, makers of the popular Rhinoceros 3D CAD tool, have shipped V6, but with a very intriguing change.
Pricing Counts, As Always: xDesign vs Onshape
At SWW18 Dassault Systèmes described a version of Solidworks that would be available in the browser: xDesign.
Anarkik3D Design Version 3.1 released
Anarkik3D has released a new version of their popular haptic 3D design software.
Designing for production parts
How do we get to tomorrow, to use 3D Printing for true Manufacturing applications through to production?
Yeehaw Wand Update: Closed!
The Yeehaw Wand has disappeared, sort of.
“Visual” 3D Model Searching with MadeInOpen
I’ve bumped into an unusual 3D model meta-repository that permits searching by a very different method.
A 3D Printing Pen of a Very Different Kind
The Yeehaw Wand at first glance might seem like yet another “3D printing pen”, but it’s nothing of the sort.
Dassault Acquires Exa
More consolidation in the 3D CAD market: Dassault Systèmes is acquiring Exa.
Dassault Systemes Points Elbows to Sky, Launches SOLIDWORKS 2018
Well, props to the mom’s of 1,000,000+ designers and engineers who, for reasons unbeknownst to them, gave a collective high-five from the sheer excitement of their sons and daughters learning SOLIDWORKS 2018 was indeed released and now available.
How To Make A 3D Printed Roller Coaster
Matt Schmotzer, a graduate student at Purdue University for mechanical engineering, has always had an affinity towards both roller coasters and 3D printing.
FlowRep: Just What 3D Printing Needs?
Researchers at UBC have developed an incredible system for capturing 3D models from static images.
A Grab-Bag of 3D Functions From FastEngineeringAnalysis.com
A new service just announced hopes to provide engineers with a variety of different design services.
3D Orchard to Assist Open Source Hardware Design
I’m trying out a new online service that hopes to enable makers to work together on open source hardware projects.
Free Online 3D CAD Training in New Onshape Learning Center
You remember rolling out of bed extra early for a week long CAD training session?
Top 3 Onshape Updates: Projected Curve, Bridging Curve, Merge Surfaces
Late last week Onshape rolled out another major release.
Autodesk’s Roadmap for Fusion 360
Fusion 360 is Autodesk’s flagship product for 3D CAD in the market. But where is it going? Let’s find out.
Anyone Can CAD Online With CAD.ai
A startup company provides a set of CAD APIs that can be embedded on any website.
Flashforge Partners With ZW3D for CAD
A major desktop 3D printer vendor selected a CAD vendor as partner.
Why STL Files Can Be Insufficient For 3D Printing
I’m reading an interesting piece by Gal Raz on Medium about the file types required by 3D print service bureaus.
3D Print Community: RhinoSlic3r
This month’s community support selection is the RhinoSlic3r project by Quentin Labrosse.
3YOURMIND’s Powerful 3D Printing Meta-Service
I’m taking a look at 3YOURMIND, a Berlin-based startup that provides simplified ways to access 3D printing services for industrial and professional use.
3DPrinterOS Breaks Silence With New Enterprise Capabilities
I haven’t heard much from 3DPrinterOS for a while, but now the reason for this is clear: they’ve been working on powerful integrations.
And After You Learn 3D CAD…
I’m reading an interesting post on GrabCAD by Khadija Ouajjani that discusses the testing of a 3D design.
Onshape Continues to Add New Features: When Will It End?
It’s getting hard to keep up with the ongoing changes in Onshape, one of our favorite professional 3D CAD tools.
123D Design Upgraded to 1.7 And Adds Some Very Useful Features
The free 123D suite of apps from Autodesk just got a lot better with the release of 123D Design 1.7.
Onshape Receives USD$80M; Fuel For Massive Growth
Upstart web-based 3D modeling service Onshape just raised a massive USD$80M from a group of venture capital investors, which may lead to a battle for 3D modeling supremacy in the future.
MIT’s Fab Forms Pre-Tests 3D Model Variations
Researchers at MIT have developed “Fab Forms”, a system that pre-tests thousands of variations of a 3D model to simplify end user design.
Powerful New Features in Onshape
Web-based 3D CAD service Onshape continues to add new features and fixes almost weekly, but recently a very powerful feature was added: DXF and DWG import.
A Barrier To 3D Printing: It’s The Design, Not The Making
As the technology of 3D printing increases in capability and reliability, where does one’s workload land? We think it’s in the design.
Polygonica’s Incredible New CAD Model Generation Feature
3D software MachineWorks announced an amazing new feature in their upcoming Polygonica release: the ability to automatically recognize 3D CAD features from a 3D mesh.
Are You Overflowing With 3D Models?
To use a 3D printer, you must have 3D models. But wait, exactly how many do you have? Probably far too many to keep track of.
An Introduction to SolveSpace
I was recently made aware of a free modelling tool called SolveSpace.
Battle of the 3D CAD Systems
Autodesk jiggered the features on their subscription CAD service, Fusion 360. Why did they do so?
A Look at Onshape
A relatively recent newcomer to the CAD world, Onshape is riding the waves of Cloud computing and aims to set the standard of industrial and product design of the future.
DesignSpark Mechanical Goes 2.0
CAD design tool DesignSpark Mechanical has now been upgraded to version 2.0.