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After seeing the Herman Miller Embody Chair for the first time, I became a wee bit obsessed with what went into the design. With the design and development ranging over years of the incredible experience of Jeff Weber and Bill Stumpf, the process had to be something to talk about.
Turns out it was. I had the chance to ask the design team a few questions about the project, what programs were used and how it affected the design. Guess what, SolidWorks used a little bit, but all together a whopping nine programs were use in the process. Take a look.
Continue reading ‘Delicious Design Process: How 3D and Rapid-Prototyping Benefit The Embody Chair’
Exactly how rockin’ would you be with your own guitar? Not as rockin’ as you would be with a sweet, custom manufactured axe made to your exact style and specifications.
Amit Zoran, from the MIT Ambient Intelligence Group, has been fiddling with the concept of Rapid Prototyping acoustical instruments. But are the materials that rapid prototyping machines use suitable to get the sustain and amplification you need to impress the crowd or your cat?
Continue reading ‘You RAWK! 3D Rapid Prototyped Acoustic Instruments of the Future’
Speaking of Objet 3D printers , there’s a new rapid-prototyping option available this fall from the company enabling you to upload a 3D designs for rapid-prototyping, Shapeways . It’s smooth, it’s black and just screaming your name.
The black photopolymer material is used with their Objet Eden 500 machine and gives you a very fine, detailed piece. They’re running a special on the material till October 19th. (That’s this Sunday.) .97 cents/cm3, nearly 70% off the regular price. What a deal.
Wondering what it looks like. Take a look at the pics after the break.
Continue reading ‘ShapeWays On the Attack With Photopolymer Black’
Imagine for a moment - taking a sip of coffee, scalding your mouth, then slamming your fist upon the keyboard that sends your final SolidWorks generated 3D model to a 3D printer sitting right next to you.
The print heads go to work as your brand new 3D desktop printer creates a high-resolution, fully cured, resin model of your design.
Sound nice?
The Objet Alaris30 aims to introduce you to the reality of high quality, rapid-prototyped 3D models combined with an office sized network printer that’s clean, efficient and extremely accurate. Would you something like this?
Here’s the Specs…
Continue reading ‘Would You Use It? The First High-Quality 3D Printer… On Your Desktop’
