3D Printing and Design

If you are a professional engineer, 3D printing and design methodology can bring your creations to production faster and can be an ideal tool for producing prototypes to show to potential manufacturers.

If you are a hobbyist it can be a means of creating interest fun projects, or if you simply want to design a custom case for your mobile phone, the concept is the same. Whatever reason you have for your design concept, there is only room for its improvement with 3D printing and design.

Five reasons to get into 3D printing and design

3D design and printing have hit the mainstream, where you can explore your ideas as quickly as you can think of them.

Robox desktop 3D printer and micro-manufacturing platform

An overview of the ROBOX brand history and 3D Printer.

Capturing 3D images with a SCANIFY

Scanning natural models and artifacts with the new SCANIFY from Fuel3D in a couple of the famous Oxford Museums.

3D modelling for multi-mode fabrication

Combining additive and subtractive manufacturing with DesignSpark Mechanical- I draw and fabricate a simple assembly consisting of laser-cut acrylic sheets and 3D printed joining parts, covering tools and techniques within DesignSpark Mechanical.

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RobbieDunion

3 days ago

What's your question?

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Ghostkingz

3 days ago

Spam?

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Ghostkingz

1 week ago

so how i do this is by selecting the two flat ends of your cylinders, then i add a plane, rotate the plane 90 degrees . i then select split body , select the cylinder and use the plane to cut it in the...

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JACANT

2 weeks ago

Follow all the tutorials here.
https://designspark.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/202625729-Video-Tutorials

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Jono3

2 weeks ago

Unless you specifically want to learn how to model you could grab it from a website such as turbosquid. Lots of free models out there of all parts of the human body. If printing an entire body which fits...

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blastermaster

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1 week ago

Cutting a cylinder

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Evana007

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3 weeks ago

how can I design a human ear properly?

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jwphillippi

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3 weeks ago

Does DS offer 3D Model Sample from Design

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JF43

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1 month ago

Import .stl fIles

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Ten22

3D Printing and Design

July 4, 2018 12:59

Creating a Worm Drive using DesignSpark Mechanical

DesignSpark Mechanical is one of our most popular free-to-download 3D CAD tools. We show you how to create a Worm Drive!

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GreigRS

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July 3, 2018 12:58

3D Printing - Checking out the RS PRO iTX PC 3D Printer

See our overview video of the new RS PRO 3D printer. If your looking to set up your rapid prototyping workstation then this along with DesignSpark Mechanical is all you need to get started.

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Nhungmie012

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1 month ago

Need help?-

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topdoug

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1 month ago

How can I draw a concave surface at the end of a cylinder?

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Phoenix Contact UK

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June 25, 2018 12:13

Getting to know the Thermofox #MarkingTheNation

Don’t fancy reading an article this morning? Perhaps you’re recovering after England’s heroics in the world cup yesterday? No problem, In that case, you can get to know our handheld printer the THERMOFOX with a Vlog instead.

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