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.

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.

Robox desktop 3D printer and micro-manufacturing platform

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

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.

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.

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I have been using 3D printers for a while and know many makers who also use them in local Hack Spaces and Maker Spaces for various small prototypes and projects, however, this is one of the first examples...

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RobbieDunion

3D Printing and Design

August 11, 2017 08:21

Which Car Manufacturer is using 3D Printing to maximise efficiency?

Did you know that a major car company is using 3D Printing to help reduce their development time by 95% and as a result are also saving more than 90% in their production costs?

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huijay

3D Printing and Design

June 5, 2017 09:06

Thinking of buying 3D printer filament? Read this first.

A review of Verbatim's 3D printer filaments which is used with Ultimaker2 3D printer for printing of various models to test the filament's strength/maximum load.

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karlwoodward

3D Printing and Design

May 22, 2017 09:48

Refurbishing MakerBot Ready for a New Home

Putting a 3D printer through its paces and making minor repairs.

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Kiana - SD3D

3D Printing and Design

April 4, 2017 08:44

Creating Threaded Parts for 3D Printing

All too often parts are designed perfectly in a CAD software, yet when it comes time to 3D print for prototyping/volume production purposes we run into tolerance issues.

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Ten22

3D Printing and Design

April 4, 2017 08:34

Wondering what to do with the spare room?...Turn it into a giant 3D printer!

Does the idea of an open source, affordable, self-replicating 3D printer that can utilise an entire room to print large objects like a 5ft tall Tower of Babel appeal to you?

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SD3DPrinting

3D Printing and Design

March 21, 2017 15:27

3D Printing - Back To The Basics

With all the 3D printing buzz over the last several years, I’m sure you are now familiar in one way or another on what the term means. Chances are many of you have had something made with a 3D printer (maybe an enclosure, or a jig?) or perhaps you...

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Connector Geek

3D Printing and Design

January 30, 2017 11:22

Hacking a TS Thumbstick for gaming and mouse control

This instalment of ‘What You Can Do in a Day’ started out primarily as a fix to my personal gaming dilemma for PC-based flight simulator games. It developed as I discovered a whole host of other applications for this kind of input device.

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Pete-Robox

3D Printing and Design

January 27, 2017 09:16

A 3D printer is a tool, not just a hobby

If you are spending a lot of time trying to get a good result from your 3D printer then it is time to get a printer which makes a task easier, not harder. Any well designed tool should be like this.

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Pete-Robox

3D Printing and Design

January 24, 2017 15:22

Robox Kickstarter campaign offers network control, print farms and touchscreen control.

Robox is a 3D printer designed in the UK which has been awarded best of PlugnPlay 2 years running by 3D hubs. Robox remote connectivity was lacking and this Kickstarter campaign provides the add-on required to give network connections and much more.

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TristanGB61

3D Printing and Design

December 19, 2016 11:04

A 3D Printed Christmas From RS Southampton

3D Printed in our Technology Centre A the RS Trade Counter in Southampton

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sikula

3D Printing and Design

December 7, 2016 14:17

Robotic : from Design Spark Mechanical to 3D Printing a freewheel adaptator

Association Sikula Robotik - French Robotic Cup robots design. How an untrained member of the team used Design Spark Mechanical to go from hand schematic to a 3D printed part of one of our autonomous robots. Designing a freewheel mechanical adaptor.