Category Archives for Tutorials
3d Printed Gummi Bears
The Cad Technology class at the University of Washington had a problem. Who wants to bite off their own head? The class recently experimented with creating gummi versions of themselves with 3d scanning and 3d printing. Using ReconstructMe to scan … Continue reading
Photos to 3d Models with Cubify Capture
3d Systems is challenging Autodesk’s 123d Capture tool with their new Cubify Capture. The website allows you to upload a set of images, and the server will generate a 3d model from the images. As we said in the 123D … Continue reading
How to 3d Print Gears
Some complex mechanical 3d prints use gears and geared mechanisms in beautiful ways. To design gears for 3d printing, you have to take some things into account. Clearance, the printer type, and the type of gear. You’re best off using … Continue reading
Making Molds with 3d Printers: Injection Molding
If you’re a designer doing rapid prototyping, you want each iteration to reflect as close to the final product as you can get. Sometimes the standard materials 3d printers can print are not enough. If you’re designing for silicone, you … Continue reading
Food Safe 3d Printing
Browsing through the open source 3d models on Thingiverse shows many people are interested in printing their own dishware. Cups, plates, even silverware are common models. But most 3d printers produce prints that are not safe for actual foods. At … Continue reading
Outsourcing Your 3d Printing
For many people that want to get into 3d printing, the first question they ask is “Which 3d printer should I buy?” If you want to explore 3d printing as a hobby, this is probably the wrong question. My response … Continue reading
Budget 3d Scanning Options
While Kinect Fusion may be coming to some future version of the Kinect SDK, there are already ways a hobbyist can digitize real world objects into scans without paying for an expensive 3d scanner. 123Catch Take standard camera pictures of … Continue reading