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Additive Manufacturing – Where to Start?

Radhika Dhuru
May 25, 2020
Mindware 3D printing experts

Additive manufacturing has matured significantly over the last few years and now is a serious, near-mainstream manufacturing technology. But while it’s become a member of the establishment, it has not lost its disruptive potential. So what do you do if you want to explore using AM in your business? Do you treat it as just another way of making the same things or do you think bigger? We talk to Sven Hermans and Mathieu Cornelis from Materialise Mindware about what makes a great start into AM — and why you don’t have to be ashamed to ask for help.

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Meet Our Modular Toy Robot at the Family of the Future Event

Stephanie Benoit
November 07, 2017
Meet Our Modular Toy Robot at the Family of the Future Event

On November 8, we will be taking part in the Family of the Future, an event organized by Flam3D. It will showcase the state-of-the-art in 3D printing technology, including an overview of available technologies and how they can add value to a variety of different industries. And among the displays will be a 3D-printed toy robot, designed and produced by Materialise!

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5 Reasons to Use 3D Printing for Your Jewelry Business

Kirsten Van Praet
July 20, 2017
5 Reasons to Use 3D Printing for Your Jewelry Business

Why would you produce jewelry using 3D printing technology, instead of creating it traditionally? Here are five reasons that convinced jewelry giants like Titan to start using 3D Printing in their business.

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Addressing the Challenges of DLP and Bottom-Up 3D Printing

Kirsten Van Praet
April 06, 2017
Addressing the Challenges of DLP and Bottom-Up 3D Printing

Sherhryar Khan, Application Engineer at the DLP Competence Centre in Malaysia, measured the impact of our support generation software for bottom-up technology and shares the result of the DLP knowledge center with you.

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Art Meets Technology in the New Hoet Cabrio SX Eyewear

Radhika Dhuru
February 15, 2017
Art Meets Technology in the New Hoet Cabrio SX Eyewear

“Innovation is my mission statement,” says Bieke Hoet, owner of the Hoet Design Studio. And you can see it in her latest collection of 3D-printed eyewear frames: Hoet Cabrio SX, launched at Silmo 2016. Designed in collaboration with the Belgian indie pop duo SX, this striking new collection features a radically new approach to eyewear design. Out with pinched angles and unflattering edges, in with organic design and fluid lines. Meet Cabrio SX, the newest work of art in the long-running partnership between Hoet Design Studio and Materialise.

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This Eyewear Is Set to Change How You See: Yuniku

Radhika Dhuru
September 23, 2016
This Eyewear Is Set to Change How You See: Yuniku

If you wear glasses, you know that finding the right frames can be a challenge, to say the least. They have to have the right style, right color, and of course, a comfortable fit. However, did you know that the frames you choose could potentially affect your vision?

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Windows 10 Users Can Now Print with i.materialise

Stephanie Benoit
July 27, 2016
Windows 10 Users Can Now Print with i.materialise

This week, Microsoft 3D Builder users were finally able to start printing their designs through our consumer 3D printing service, i.materialise. This is just the first of many Microsoft 3D printing platform applications which will allow users to print their models with i.materialise, and although we announced this collaboration for the first time in May, it’s exciting to see those plans become concrete reality! Our i.materialise team is definitely looking forward to working together with the team over at Microsoft to improve the 3D printing experience for the members of the Windows community.

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New 3D-Printed Eyewear Collection Hits Stores!

Radhika Dhuru
June 20, 2016
New 3D-Printed Eyewear Collection Hits Stores!

Hoet Design Studio’s Cabrio G, a collection of sunglasses for design lovers, comes from a unique inspiration: luxury cars. The prototype of Cabrio G was unveiled at the Brussels Expo 2016, in the company of the Rolls-Royce and McLaren cars that had inspired it. Now that the newest Cabrio collection has just hit stores, take a look at what happens when inspired design meets innovative manufacturing.

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First Fully 3D-Printed Luxury Glasses: Our Co-Creation with Antwerp Fashion Academy Student Dávid Ring

Stephanie Benoit
June 15, 2016
First Fully 3D-Printed Luxury Glasses: Our Co-Creation with Antwerp Fashion Academy Student Dávid Ring

Fashion can be provocative, inspiring, political and revolutionary – but it is never boring. We experienced this first-hand when we attended the fashion show of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp last week. Antwerp has long been the fashion capital of Belgium, and young designers from all over the world study at the renowned Fashion Department of the university; at the end of the year they get to present everything they’ve learnt on a real catwalk, with the Master’s students presenting an entire collection.

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Cubetto Playset gets the Materialise Design & Engineering Treatment

Natalie Simpson
May 17, 2016
Cubetto Playset gets the Materialise Design & Engineering Treatment

When Primo came to Materialise they had already identified 3D Printing as the ideal manufacturing method for the first 650 runs of the Cubetto Playset. What they went on to discover was the value you can realise when a product is designed specifically for 3D Printing. A tangible programming interface that teaches children programming logic without the need for literacy, the Cubetto Playset consists of a programming interface, a set of instruction blocks and board, and the star of the show, a robot called ‘Cubetto’. Comprised of natural materials and electronics, Primo had selected Additive Manufacturing to produce eleven parts including the programming blocks and components that would be used to construct the Cubetto robot.

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