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The biggest thing to hit 3D printing in the next few years is likely to be volumetric 3D printing. But who’s developing it? If you haven’t seen Fabbaloo’s previous questions about volumetric 3D printing on the tech, let’s start with a quick overview.  Volumetric 3D Printing Volumetric 3D Printing projects the form of an object from multiple angles into a vat of transparent photopolymer liquid where repeated rays of light in specific spots cause the material to solidify. It’s like an MRI, except in reverse: the form of the object is projected to form the model instead of scanning the object.  The upshot of the technology is that it could provide…

In this post, I’m celebrating another Onshape CAD mystery solved! You see, time and again I was left scratching my head as to the mystery of why my nicely and precisely placed dimensions kept disappearing when building up my 2D sketch sections in Onshape! Before me was the case of the “Disappearing Sketcher Dimensions” (DSD). Yep, and I’ve not so single-handedly solved the case of the dreaded DSD. Fact is, Ole SkillCoach did his due diligence and “kept his ear to the ground” and “eyes on the picks and clicks” while working my way through the Onshape online Learning Pathway materials. There I learned that it matters a great deal…

SelfCAD has been bustin’ solid modeling moves for a few years now, adding feature after feature to their browser-based 3D modeling app. They’ve grown from a basic 3D shape modeler to including features that would make other CAD software sit up and peek over their shades. Mmm-hmmm. Version 3.0 is in the works but their latest 2.9.1 update has a bevy of updates you’re likely to find useful if you’re a current user and quite interesting if you have been waiting for more. Some of the highlights include Multiple Viewports, Backface Culling, Edge Ring Selection, and Gizmo Customization. The 2.9 release (Oct 2019) saw the addition of Animation, precision 3D…

You’ve seen lots of bowls, giant eggs, and other semi-round shapes hand-shaped on a lathe, but have you ever seen the creation of a bowl within a bowl? How do you imagine you would even go about turning it? With inspiration from German woodturner, Martin Adomat, YouTube creator SteRa Turning tried his hand (quite successfully) at making his own bowl in a bowl. To be clear, this isn’t two separate bowls stacked on top of one another. It’s a single bowl with the top edge of each sloping opposite each other giving the illusion of a smaller bowl inside a larger bowl. The process of crafting such an oddly shaped…

If you’re schemin’ away over your lunch hour, hatching plans for jet-powered human flight, set down that burrito and pay attention to the latest from Jetman Dubai. We’ve seen a gradual progression of the jet-powered wing concept since Yves Rossy’s experimental flights as ‘Jet Man’. It gained him notoriety in 2006 with a plane-deployed flight donning a wing that isn’t too far from the design of the version Jetman Dubai is testing today — wing, with jets, strapped to your back. But the company he founded is certainly taking it to the next level. While you may have seen videos of the Jetman Dubai pilots shooting through the air at…