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Materialise Slicing Technology Enables Toyota’s Lightweight Car Seat

Toyota wanted to produce a lightweight car seat prototype with minimal volume and an optimal heat capacity. Not only was it challenging to design, but working with such a large file size was tough too. Fortunately, Toyota had Materialise’s engineering team and software expertise to work with.

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Manufacturing Designer Eyewear: Hoet Design Studio’s Cabrio Collection

Hoet Design Studio’s eyewear, says the studio, is born out of the desire to create a timeless design that is both classic and modern. What better way to do that than to take the ageless art of eyewear design and manufacturing into the dynamic, forward-looking world of 3D Printing?

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No Old Dinosaur: KAYIWA’s 3D-Printed DINO Clothes Rack

Those familiar with Finnish designer Lincoln Kayiwa, founder of the KAYIWA design studio, may remember the DIPLODOCUS clothes rack. Now he presents to you the DINO clothes rack, with coat hangers that mimic a dinosaur’s bone structure, designed with some help from Magics.

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Mimics® Innovation Suite Supports Paula Radcliffe’s Comeback

World-record-holder Paula Radcliffe ran her first race in two years, in preparation for the London Marathon, thanks to RS Print’s 3D-printed dynamic custom insoles designed specifically for her anatomy and dynamic gait analysis.

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Schunk’s 3D-Printed Grippers Grab All Attention

German expert in clamping technology and gripping systems Schunk worked with Materialise to create eGrip, the world's first fully-automated design and ordering tool for 3D-Printed gripper fingers.

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Materialise Build Processor Rescues Steven Ma’s 3D-Printed Chain Dress Wedding Veil

Shanghai-based XUBERANCE® founder Steven Ma has designed the world’s longest 3D-printed wedding veil, made possible by Materialise’s Build Processor software and 3D Printing services.

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Creating the Perfect Fit for a Pulsatile Total Artificial Heart

The accurate fit of a Total Artificial Heart is an important challenge as every patient’s anatomy is unique. German device engineers were looking for a way to optimize their designs to treat the maximum number of patients.

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Five Software Packages Lead to One Majestic Jaguar

What’s the best way to enter a harbor in style? The bow of the luxury yacht KISMET is now adorned with a massive majestic jaguar, good for scaring off any maritime threats. Materialise was delighted to help make this yacht owner’s dream come true.

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The Future of Personalization Looks Bawsome

With Bawsome, you can personalize glasses according to frame (both front and temples) and lens color. Not only that, but you can also write messages on the side in the color of your choice to “change your accessory into a statement”.

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Revolutionizing Jaw Angle Surgery with 3D Planning and Custom Implant Design

The team of Professor Mommaerts from the European Face Centre planned a complex jaw angle reconstruction with Materialise’s PROPLAN CMF and 3-matic software for a girl with hemifacial microsomia.

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Materialise 3-matic Makes Topology Optimization More Attractive

A Delft University graduate student wanted to use topology optimization to minimize the volume and weight of an aircraft engine bracket. However, it was taking too long to convert optimized files back to a CAD format: until he tried 3-maticSTL.

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Sagrada Familia: Magics Meets Modernism

The world-famous Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona has been using 3D Printing since 2001 to continue the work of the great designer Antoni Gaudí. This modernist architect was not able to finish the work during his life. With the assistance of Materialise Magics software, Gaudí’s glorious magnum opus is well on its way to completion.

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