The 3D printing industry has received a new and unlikely ally, with toy producer Hasbro working with Shapeways to offer printed models. The new site, SuperFanArt, will allow prospective designers to submit 3D models of Hasbro licensed characters for sale, in turn taking a cut of the profits, with Shapeways creating the plastic model for […]
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At yesterday’s HP shareholder conference call, CEO Meg Whitman revealed that the company would enter the 3D printing fray. An announcement is scheduled for some time in June that Whitman calls a “big technology announcement” regarding the nascent technology. The CEO thinks that the hobbyist market is small and that “the bigger market is going […]
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Adobe has launched several improvements to Photoshop CC for Creative Cloud subscribers. Perhaps the most significant is support for 3D printing; while the software isn’t designed for creating objects from scratch, users can import files created in modeling tools or 3D scanners, apply colors and textures, and get automatic mesh repairs. Compatible file formats include […]
3D printing has been getting press lately and has been shown at tech fairs and the like. Now the folks over Sculpteo will make a mini you AKA Avatar Model using 3D printing. All you need to so is send them 2 pictures – one face-on and one profile. It’s like having a real world Xbox […]